The Library Life Blog

The Library Life Blog
Being a Library student and making it through life.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Auto-tune Bibliographic Instruction

Since being enrolled in library school, the subject of maintaining and increasing patronage in libraries has been a big issue. The discussions have been mainly centered around public librarianship, but they certainly are also directed towards academic libraries. So, what do we do?  The conventional antidotes to this situation have been to make the library more like a home and atheistically more pleasing for patrons.  But what about improvements in people skills? I mean librarians need to go far and beyond than the call of duty when it comes to just satisfying a patron. So what is the answer? Or what is an answer?

International known artist Faheem Rasheed Najm aka T-Pain, has made a method of sound mixing called  Auto-Tuning a feature part of music. Hence, he has brought such abridged hits as "I'm Sprung" and that classic dance floor hit "I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper)" classic millennium hits. So taking a cue from him, I am suggesting that librarians who have developed a lack of people skills compensate for that short coming by auto-tuning themselves.

Here is an example of how world leaders can have used auto tunning to communicate wider audience.


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