Rusch-Feja

Caveat: I'm about to take a quote out of context and blow it out of proportion – not to be rude, but because it made me think. From the final paragraph: "To survive the massive challenges to the profession, the librarian must become an information specialist..."

It's a little troubling to think of a profession in terms of its need to survive, rather than in terms of the world’s need for the profession. I'm sure that's not what Rusch-Feja intended, but even so, for me it raised an interesting question: what will the profession survive to become? Over time will it shift to increasingly focus on digital media, to the detriment of other areas? Will it broaden and fragment into so many sub-disciplines that it becomes hard to recognize what they have in common? Or will the disciplinary threads that run through all the diverse areas get stronger and pull them all together?