Librarianship Librarianship is a process of collecting, organizing, archiving, disseminating, and evaluating data and information for the purposes of fostering knowledge. To fully put this definition into practice we, as a profession, must construct a conceptual framework defining the relationship between data, information and knowledge. The conceptual framework I use has been borrowed from the late Paul Evans Peters who may have very well gotten it from Mortimer Adler. He called it the Ladder of Understanding. Knowledge is the third rung of the ladder where knowledge is information given value and put into practice.
Wisdom is the last rung of the ladder and is defined as knowledge of a timeless nature.
It is important to create a model of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom for our profession because without it we have no foundation for achieving our common goals. This is a great time to be a librarian. The value of information has increased, and we are standing right in the middle of the process. Here are a few possibilities listed in no particular order. First, we can digitize the unique items in our collections and provide access to them.