With the easy connectivity of world wide web and happy confluence (and confusion?) of communication and IT technologies, I think this is a great time to be in the information field. Besides offering traditional services, libraries have evolved into innovative and technologically sophisticated environment utilizing RFIDs, real time databases and online transactions.
During my stints at the National Library Board and Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), I had initiated and participated actively in projects, garnering three EDB innovation awards. Examples include implementing a digitalization programme to provide online access to selected print materials, going on a study tour to benchmark corporate knowledge centres, designing a competitive intelligence database using MSSQL and Cold Fusion, monitoring business trends and disseminating timely alerts to support various industry clusters, editing a newsletter to highlight current industry/research news and setting up the EDB pavilion for the Global Entrepolis @ Singapore event which had attracted more than 10,000 participants.
Instead of a job for life, I find that librarianship is a job for growth as librarians are constantly exposed to new ideas through our interaction with users and the many opportunities to try out new databases and learning technologies.