Curation: Buzzword or What?

摘要

Information professionals need to make clear how they add value and communicate that to their end users.I think the most popular buzzword in library land these days is curation. It's used to describe everything from old-fashioned collection development to human filtering activities on social media like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and your blog. the word curator gets used too liberally to describe the stuff people do on the web and, in my humble option, dilutes and pollutes the professional things that librarians do.