On Wed, 9 May 2012, Laval Hunsucker wrote:
> James Weinheimer wrote :
>
>> A search for "ebooks" has www.ebooks.com come up second to
>> Project Gutenberg.
>
> Now that rather depends, doesn't it, on ( i.a. ) the who and when
> and from where of the search?
True, but it is also indicative of the fact that search results (like
everything else, including customers and searchers) can be manipulated
from a number of directions for individual advantage. The question then
becomes how to manipulate manipulation to become egalitarian.
>> Reward and punishment should not be part of the library's tools.
> Possibly not, but they always have been, and I don't know how they can
> be eliminated.
Your comment is significant in placing emphasis on static assumptions and
personal knowledge. We should instead be consistently questioning stasis
and taking the "possibly" corrupting presence of reward and punishment
systems as evidence of a need to explore how they can be supplanted by
egalitarian (I'm starting to like that word) collaborative tools.
Cheers!
jgm
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 Wed May 09 2012 - 15:22:24 EDT