After my talk at KMWorld + Taxonomy BootCamp yesterday, a young man asked me for career advice. Jeez, you ever want to feel your age, have that happen to you!

Anyway, he’s thinking of going to grad school in library science and wanted to know what I thought of that as a career move. After taking the opportunity to pass along several nuggest of wisdom — You never understand a man until you’ve danced backwards in his high heels, 95% of life is showing up in your pajamas, etc. — I noted that I’m not up on what the library sci grad schools are teaching, but that there will be a big demand for people who can help us find, understand and reuse information (or, as I like to think of it, create an infrastructure of meaning). We’re going to need lots of help thinking through systems that will enable multiple orders to emerge from the behaviors of distributed groups. Something like that.

As soon as I left, I D’oh’ed myself for not pointing him to library bloggers like Karen Schneider, Jessamyn West, the Shifted Librarian, LibrarianInBlack, Liz Lawley, plus everyone I’m forgetting because I freeze when making lists. [Tags: libraries everything_is_miscellaneous information_architecture erkman]

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