{"title":"“The Future of Libraries:” Vocational Awe in a “Post-COVID” World","authors":"Fobazi Ettarh, Chris Vidas","doi":"10.1080/0361526x.2022.2028501","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Fobazi Ettarh presented a cautionary tale regarding the future of libraries in her Vision Session at the 2021 NASIG Conference. Rather than painting an unrealistically optimistic picture of the future, Fobazi highlighted numerous concerns surrounding libraries and the increasingly lofty demands placed on library workers. Between the pandemic and growing societal concerns surrounding race and equity, libraries need to unite to form a better future that emphasizes individual care and self-love which will ultimately go further in achieving goals that positively impact the communities they serve.","PeriodicalId":39557,"journal":{"name":"Serials Librarian","volume":"82 1","pages":"17 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Serials Librarian","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526x.2022.2028501","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Fobazi Ettarh presented a cautionary tale regarding the future of libraries in her Vision Session at the 2021 NASIG Conference. Rather than painting an unrealistically optimistic picture of the future, Fobazi highlighted numerous concerns surrounding libraries and the increasingly lofty demands placed on library workers. Between the pandemic and growing societal concerns surrounding race and equity, libraries need to unite to form a better future that emphasizes individual care and self-love which will ultimately go further in achieving goals that positively impact the communities they serve.
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The Serials Librarian is an international journal covering all aspects of the management of serials and other continuing resources in any format—print, electronic, etc.—ranging from their publication, to their abstracting and indexing by commercial services, and their collection and processing by libraries. The journal provides a forum for discussion and innovation for all those involved in the serials information chain, but especially for librarians and other library staff, be they in a single (continuing resources) department or in collection development, acquisitions, cataloging/metadata, or information technology departments.