Ways the librarian of the future will keep busy?

After participating in a morning-long work session this week on identifying librarian training needs for the upcoming year, I was a little stunned by the implications of this headline:

8 Ways The Librarian Of The Future Will Keep Themselves Busy

The headline makes it sound like librarians are going to need to invent ways to keep themselves occupied so they don't bump their heads on their desks when they doze off out of boredom. Not in my universe.

The infographic in the link above was created based on data by Pew Internet by LibraryScienceList.com (a group with whom I am not familiar). As far as it goes, it describes some roles that school librarians have long identified as being "The Information Expert" and I call "The Virtual Librarian":

What this table fails to recognize is teaching role of all librarians - school, public, academic and special. Increasingly our role is less about doing information stuff like that above for patrons, but teaching them to learn to do it form themselves. (And no, we are not working our way out of a job since there is always a new crop of individuals to be taught!)

If we can describe the future as this coming school year, these are ways our school librarians will "keep themselves busy"...

1. Teaching, assessing and reporting ELA media literacy standards and playing a major role in teaching our Digital Citizenship curriculum.
2. Faciliating our 1:1 iPad initiative by doing staff development, managing devices, and selecting apps.
3. Providing in-building staff development on standard technology uses including interactive white board use and GoogleApps for Education. Doing as-needed tech support on days the techs are not in the building.
4. Locating quality, relevant support materials, both commercial and open source, for use with classes that are now using our CMS Moodle instead of a textbook. (This is going to be huge and require a great deal more sophistication than "pulling a cart of books off the shelves to support the climate unit in third grade.)
5. Continuing to promote Voluntary Free Reading by both traditional methods of book talks, author visits, reading events and displays, but also digitally by online book clubs, social networking (Follett Quest), and links to digital resources about book (TeachingBooks).
6. Finding ways to promote digital resources with both students and staff, especially helping classroom teachers learn about e-books that can be used by multiple readers at one time, creating virtual classroom sets.
7. Oh, and doing all that traditional stuff like collection development, material selection, weeding, circulation, team-teaching in classrooms, and supervising paraprofessional and technical staff. Communicating with staff and parents. Developing budgets and plans. Working with leadership teams to support broad building goals.

OK, I can only think of seven rather than eight things our district librarians will be doing "in the future" to keep busy, but I don't think we'll be hearing the sounds of heads hitting desks from boredom.