Matheson N W
William H. Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205.
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1995 Jan;83(1):1-7.
The fundamental idea of the library must change. The nineteenth-century idea of the library as the embalming of dead genius and the twentieth-century idea of the library as the repository for second-hand knowledge must give way to the idea of the library as the owner and the librarian as the manager of first-hand knowledge. In the coming era of knowledge capitalism, those individuals and organizations will flourish who are able to apply knowledge to create knowledge and to organize it to produce knowledge. The roles of present-day librarians and libraries will begin to differentiate sharply over the next decade. Some must seize the opportunity to participate in the transformation of libraries into online knowledge servers.
图书馆的基本理念必须改变。19世纪将图书馆视为已逝天才的藏宝地，以及20世纪将图书馆视为二手知识仓库的理念，必须让位于将图书馆视为一手知识的所有者，将馆员视为一手知识管理者的理念。在即将到来的知识资本主义时代，那些能够运用知识创造知识并对其进行组织以产生知识的个人和组织将会蓬勃发展。在未来十年里，当今馆员和图书馆的角色将开始出现明显分化。一些人必须抓住机会，参与将图书馆转变为在线知识服务器的变革。
