Dilbert and Libraries: Confronting Our Contradictions

We must stay true to our core roles while discarding practices and concepts that no longer serve our interests or those of our customers.

BY STEPHEN ABRAM, MLS
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I find that the "Dilbert" series of comic strips and books continues to be this era's greatest satirical commentary on modern life. Scott Adams, a keynote speaker at SLA 2007 in Denver, holds our organizational lives and our personalities up to a mirror that is both critical and humorous in its reflection. His characters are at once caricatures of the people we meet in corporate life but also endearingly individual and fallible in such human ways.

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