Mark Huppert writes
> The main reason to have library staff available to answer questions
> has nothing to do with such high-falutin' stuff.
yeah!
> The users need to know local policies and procedures, status of
> aquisitions budgets, sort out administrative errors, find out the
> local geography - meeting rooms, toilets, etc.
This reminds me of what my former boss told me. In 2008 called me
to his office to declare that the public librarian needs to know two
things. 1: last week's lottery numbers, 2: where the toilet is. And
he repeated. It is very important to know where the toilet is. I
have called his vision the scatological view of librarianship. I
find this vision detrimental to the future of the profession.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
skype: thomaskrichel
Received on Thu Feb 10 2011 - 22:17:29 EST