Bereits im Juli 2025 wurde ein Gedicht, das die Berufe im Bereich Information, Wissensmanagement und Bibliothekswesen würdigt, auf der diesjährigen Konferenz von CILIP, dem Britischen Bibliotheks- und Informationsverband, uraufgeführt (via bibliotheksportal.de und cilip.org.uk):
The way, the deep
(A poem for information professionals; in libraries, knowledge and information management)Start with chaos, the inkling, the overload.
A barrage of questions, or just a wondering…
To be alive is to pose why? How? What?
Where? So when – that too – someone asks: begin.
Breathing search engines, we dissect the quest.
A puzzle to be solved. Constant little connections
to the thrill of the chase, pinfinders in the infinite
haystacks, lifelines on the frontlines of information.
Inquisitively we specify and interrogate
every slip, every stamp, every accession,
every book, every byte, every query, every record,
every pamphlet, patent, every human expression
waiting to be called upon. We turn labyrinths
into frames, landscapes into maps; a reference
way, the route, the road through the deep data
cascades that might overwhelm. With high reverence
to the fact that facts ought to be there, true and right,
that knowledge is justice, and all should be welcome
in the temples of taxonomies. That what matters
is how we serve, custodians of the civic customs
we assemble to transform the world. In empathy spaces,
democratic salons, we share, guide and unlock,
more and better answers, so people climb stacks, hone
understanding from within our universal catalogue. – By Rishi Dastidar.