[Web4lib] Google is replacing the professional librarian

Jennifer Heise jenne.heise at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 11:17:19 EDT 2005


Well, the comment is certainly indicative of a larger malaise, in that even
the director doesn't believe in libraries. If she did, she wouldn't advance
her PR funding in a way that's sure to fail.

On 10/27/05, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
>
> > Funny. I had the odd notion that it was professional librarians who made
> > the
> > decisions about what books and DVDs to stock and other issues involved
> in
> > providing service.
>
> It's worth reading the entire article that Bernie quoted:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cofvv
>
> The comment makes more sense as part of a larger, more complicated issue.
>
> Karen G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com
>
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