No, Libramnesia is not the name of a woman or the latest mixed drink to grace the pages of Ruby Tuesday’s summer cocktail menu. Libramnesia is a highly common but, under-treated social condition that causes its sufferers to completely forget about libraries or even worse, believe libraries are irrelevant. Personally, I know all about Libramnesia because I once suffered from this debilitating disease for almost 10 years. My particular case was caused by the trauma of spending countless overnighters on the first floor of Bird Library throughout my four years at Syracuse. Once I handed in my last paper of my college career, I did not step foot into a library again until nearly a decade later.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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No, Libramnesia is not the name of a woman or the latest mixed drink to grace the pages of Ruby Tuesday’s summer cocktail menu. Libramnesia is a highly common but, under-treated social condition that causes its sufferers to completely forget about libraries or even worse, believe libraries are irrelevant. Personally, I know all about Libramnesia because I once suffered from this debilitating disease for almost 10 years. My particular case was caused by the trauma of spending countless overnighters on the first floor of Bird Library throughout my four years at Syracuse. Once I handed in my last paper of my college career, I did not step foot into a library again until nearly a decade later.
