On 8/31/07, Karen Coyle <kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> This reminds me of when someone asks me: "Do you believe in evolution?"
I understand that people have a problem with me asking them to trust
me. It's not that easy to do, and unfortunately this area is so big
and hard to explain (and certainly prove!) that sometimes trusting
people is needed.
I guess the biggest problem with me saying "trust me" is that I'm not
an academic, and I cannot give you the right academic / librarian
answer to convince anyone. I guess we'll have to sit this one out and
see what happens.
> I go along with the "show me" approach, although the asker needs to be
> prepared to receive a modest bibliography in response.
Not only that ; when are librarians given the time to go off and try
an AI project? I'm being told that the only way to do this is to do it
in my spare time, which of course doesn't exist. So it's a chicken and
egg problem ; we're not given the time to create something that others
will accept as a reason to go and do that thing that might convince
them which we haven't got the time to do, which ... :)
Anyway, I don't think at this point it can ever be expected that the
library world will do something like this; these waters are simply too
unknown.
Alex
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