Young Librarians of the Future

Jake Hope, 27

Young People’s Library Services

Lancashire County Library and Information Service

Jake works with a range of related organisations to widen the parameters of the work libraries are engaged with and advocates libraries and library-led initiatives through these links.

“ Libraries are changing and evolving and whereas that poses challenges to the service, it also provides great opportunities for finding new and exciting ways to engage people which can give a near-electric ‘buzz’ that is very exhilarating.
Libraries are cultural hot-houses, that display a keen awareness of the importance of reading; as individuals we learn to read pictures, music, art, literature (in printed or electronic form) and thereby to better ‘read’ the lives of ourselves and others surrounding us...
Librarians of the future must no longer be stereotyped as quiet, staid or severe, they must instead be viewed as key-holders and guides to the vast empires of human knowledge and achievement. ”