And it the related, "Where did you learn to do that?" - implying that because I didn't have a class, I can't possibly know how to do something. Well, years ago, a GOOD teacher taught me how to teach myself, how to follow directions, how to learn.
But this is common in all areas, not just libraries. There is a commercial on TV that imply one cannot have the common sense to choose a laxative unless a doctor tells you which one to use.
Joyce A. Brannan
Resource Management / Technical Services Librarian
Julia Tutwiler Library
University of West Alabama
Livingston, AL 35470
205.652.3677
jbrannan_at_uwa.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse Ephraim
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:45 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Library Technologies and Library School (was Commercial Vendors and Open Source Software)
>Unfortunately, far too many of the librarians
>I have worked with over the past 35+ years
>have an attitude of "I can't do this unless someone teaches
> me to do it."
Received on Sun Sep 21 2008 - 09:58:32 EDT