Intelligence Reform Brings New: Opportunities for Info Pros

摘要

Librarians constantly hear the "gloom and doom." Libraries are closing! Library budgets are being cut! Librarians are being replaced by the Internet! Now for the good news: A few months back at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, home of U.S. Army military intelligence training, this writer was astonished by comments from Eliot Jardines, the new assistant deputy director of national intelligence (DNI) for open source. Jardines was proposing a new role for librarians in the reformation of the intelligence community-a role in which librarians would work alongside intelligence analysts and linguists and be used as open-source experts and champions. This article presents highlights of an ambitious plan that provides new opportunities for librarians to be part of a"unique time in history, a time when open sources are poised to reinvent the world of intelligence" (Jardines, 2006).