A blog by the Brick Factory The Brick Factory  Librarians offer
plenty in a social media world  librarian_teacherCongrats!  The
Internet has made you an honorary librarian. Since writing that
post, I’ve been thinking about what’s the purpose of
credentialed librarians when social media enables many of us to
fill some of their roles.  Steph, a librarian in Melbourne,
Australia, feels that the Internet has made her a better
librarian.  She states:  In many ways the Internet has made me a
better librarian. I am able to answer questions more quickly and
efficiently. I know that there is more to what’s available than
a search engine or Wikipedia can provide. I love the fact that
there are cool databases available through university libraries
with hundreds and thousands of amazing articles that I can
search!  Like her, I feel that the Internet makes librarians
more useful and needed. Here are some ways that credentialed
librarians and information professionals help us in a social
media world:   1. Confronting the f