School of Information Ph.D student, Joe Sanchez, and iSchool alumna Char Booth are among the eight young librarians interviewed in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education, the leading national weekly dealing with university news. In an article entitled "Young Librarians, Talking' 'bout their generation", both speak to the relevance and value of libraries and librarianship in the future. As Joe notes: "The academic library in the future is going to be a continuation of what we see now, with more multimedia integration. [It won't be] limited to just providing access to materials but also providing access to the creation of different types of materials. For instance, it's not just providing access to DVDs, but maybe providing access to video cameras or DVD burners in order to make digital storytelling, or maybe going so far as to provide games or immersive environments in virtual worlds."

The text and audio links can be found this week at http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=TMJzssbqqHcvnKt4V8sPvyKQXfxz4VVP.