The Value of a Library.

Here in Queensland, there has been drastic action taken with the decommissioning of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Library, the QLD Emergency Services Library, and the QLD Corrective Services Library.

I do not know how these departments are going to meet their need for information resources in the future, and neither does anybody else, it seems. Also, what will happen to all the Librarians?

Libraries may cost money to run, but they provide vital professional services and valuable information resources to other professionals, researchers, scientists, and the community. These things, I'm afraid, are not able to be found elsewhere.

In an ideal, world, perhaps, the information (at least) would be free, but you will always need people who can efficiently order, filter, select and deliver information. Or someone to teach people how to do these things themselves...

Thanks for the "Thank you"

Perhaps I am generalising, but Librarians do their job because they want to help people find information. We don't get into the field because we think we are going to get rich quick.

So, when you teach a class in searching databases, and someone stops afterward just to say how much your class has helped them, it really makes your day.

Thank you for saying thank you.