On Thu, 27 May 2010, Miksa, Shawne wrote:
> Ed wrote: "Libraries aren't marginal, but they're a smaller part of the
> total information picture than they have been historically."
More specifically, what libraries have traditionally done is of
increasingly marginal importance today, so what libraries have to do is
change their self-concepts and adjust. For example, we have to explain to
funders why it is important to pay for digitizing resources so that they
can be accessed thru the Internet, rather than competing with the
Internet.
> Agreed. When automobiles came along, they didn't shoot all the horses
> did they?
No, they re-purposed them, which is what libraries have to do with
themselves, to keep marginally sane tax-not-payers from shooting us.
John G. Marr
Cataloger
CDS, UL
Univ. of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
jmarr_at_unm.edu
jmarr_at_flash.net
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Received on Thu May 27 2010 - 17:07:20 EDT