[WEB4LIB] Re: In defense of stupid users: "Tennant's Law"

Carver, Blake Blake.Carver at nypa.gov
Thu May 5 13:41:35 EDT 2005


Off list, Isabel Danforth brought up the possibility of a connection
with Ranganathan's 5 laws.
What say you Roy, any chance you inspired by Ranganathan?

In any case this should be called "Tennant's Law" 

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Blake Carver
Technical Librarian
New York Power Authority
Niagara Project 

>>-----Original Message-----
>>Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: In defense of stupid users
>>
>>
>>This sounds suspiciously like a quote of mine, dating back at 
>>least to 
>>October 2001, in the Library Journal "Digital Libraries" 
>>column of that 
>>month: <http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA170458>. "Only librarians 
>>like to search, everyone else likes to find." I've also used this in 
>>too many presentations to count, and it never fails to get a knowing 
>>laugh.
>>Roy




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