On April 8, 2015, dolly m (@loather) tweeted the following:
dolly m pithily sums up something I’ve been wrestling with for the past few years, ever since I started working in a public library:
There are so-named “thought leaders” in the library community who make their living telling the rest of us how we should do our jobs. They travel from conference to conference, keynoting and presenting, speaking about the current state of librarianship.
Several of these thought leaders haven’t worked as librarians in an actual library in a long time. Some not since before the internet existed. Some of them have no first-hand experience of the practical realities of being a librarian in the Digital Information Age.
This makes it hard swallow when they presume to tell me how I should do my job.