On Mon, 04 May 2009 10:18:33 -0400, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu>
wrote:
> What is your point, Alex? How can this discussion help us serve our
> users better?
>
> Are you suggesting that all of us reading this should just quit our jobs
> and go work somewhere other than a library now, and libraries should
> disolve themselves?
>
> And that's useful for us to discuss here why?
> ________________________________________
Thank you, Jonathan!
I'm a library newbie, but I'm already so sick of seeing these gloom and
doom, librarianship is dying type of posts. Why should new information
discovery tools be viewed as being *outside* of librarianship? If this
thing is truly useful, doesn't it *enhance* our abilities, rather than
replace them? Doesn't the realm of librarianship *expand* to include these
new tools and techniques, rather than shrink out of their way? If it does
really mean a few less reference desk questions (and that 90% figure comes
from where now?), doesn't that just free up our time to assist in more
difficult research?
Bring up a new tool here for discussion, fantastic. Then go on to say that
it means obsoletion for libraries, or call it "another nail in the
coffin", well that's just trolling for flames, in my newbie opinion.
Brian Stamper
Received on Mon May 04 2009 - 11:33:35 EDT