Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

Registration is now open for the Reference Renaissance 2010 Conference, being held on August 9th and 10th, 2010 in Denver.  Reference is not dead.  To the contrary, I believe that reference services are the key service that libraries have that no other institution does.  It’s the one thing we do that no one else can…and now, when we’re losing funding and are unable to continue expensive programming and events services (what many libraries used as a replacement for reference as their key service), we can still afford to provide reference and research expertise to the community.  Let’s re-focus, and re-energize this area of our services.  I look forward to seeing what the “new library” looks like in 5 years.