Jim,
Perhaps if you held Tech Services and Systems people in higher regard you'd be able to provide your students with off-campus access to your academic databases. I'm sure Tech Services and Systems could easily be able to provide that if they wanted. How 20th century is "These databases work only from on campus"? For someone who's so eager to cast stones, you certainly have room to grow in your own library's current offerings. Or does only the future count for the elites? If you can't or won't max out today's systems how are you going to have any clues for the future? You can hardly talk about student information needs and wants if you're artificially hindering their access. I'm reminded of standing in a little used section of one of my first libraries with my library director. I was looking at the few pitiful outdated books on the shelf and suggested we should get some more newer books. Of course she said, "Well nobody every uses this section" and I observed, "No wonder." Tim!
e to get some imagination for the present too I'd say.
Michael Mitchell
Technical Services Librarian
Brazosport College
Lake Jackson, TX
michael.mitchell at brazosport.edu
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Weinheimer Jim
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:35 PM
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Jim Weinheimer wrote in part:
> At the risk of being too blunt and making myself the object of general derision, I think that at the level these people will be discussing, perhaps
> it would be best that if technical services people attend, they should only
> be there as observers ... what is needed now is *imagination* and this imagination should
> not be limited by what the technicians immediately consider to be impracticable.
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