Pay for pages? -Reply

[Margaret F. Riley]

At 05:39 AM 8/20/96 -0700, KAREN SCHNEIDER wrote:
>I'm glad Sara Weissman brought this up.  "isn't creating web
>pages part of our job, responsibility, profession?"  You go girl! 

Creating resources to aid our users in locating information has
always been a part of our profession.  The format changes, but
the responsibility remains the same.

>Let's keep basic skills BASIC and make them REQUIRED and
>put them in our RFPs and our JOB DESCRIPTIONS and use
>them to evaluate LIBRARY DEGREE PROGRAMS.  And folks
>who don't want to learn these skills need not apply to our
>profession. 

I keep smiling and thinking back to the first CD-ROMs introduced
to the libraries.   Hey, we managed PAC systems, CD-ROMs, LANs,
and Dialog.  Toss another infosystem into the pack and let me at it!

>Karen G. "great coffee this morning!" Schneider

Margaret "Yeah, Football is Back!" Riley
go ahead, *ask* my opinion. :-)

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