My fellow Coloradan, Matt Hamilton, takes a look around and comes to the conclusion that "the library field is weird. No, really. I mean it.... I’m afraid we just might be making a mockery of ourselves. And we don’t have another 15 years to fix it. In 15 years the information landscape will have changed just as drastically as the web has changed us and if we don’t get serious we might just fall off the map completely." Matt is finishing his MLS, and he's written up a very interesting perspective on what's wrong with the field, what's right with it, and how he thinks we cold start to improve things.

I think he has a point. Saying one is a librarian doesn't tell you anything at all these days. - aarontay

Re: Flitcraft, I doubt it's across the field, but in my MLS program, there was an insistence to call ourselves that. - Matt Hamilton

Submitted by bevedog, who supplies the first comment above. - Greg Schwartz

There is huge resistance to changing the "librarian" title -- imo, a rose by any other name is still a stinky flower -- also fwiw imo, there is huge (but rapidly lessening) resistance to changes within the field of librarianship... even 5 years may be too long for acceptance of changes to the information landscape - Aaron the Librarian