Do librarians need basic HTML capabilities?

[The Big Glee Bopper]

On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Vivienne Cuff wrote:

> On the other hand,  how to do you get people to understand the 
> concept of hypertext without actually writing HTML per se? 
> Maybe we should use something like Storyspace and get them to write 
> hyperfiction or get people to participate in something like Waxweb?

When you describe someone as literate it means they can _read_ & _write_. 
Being literate in a digital environment means you have to be able to do 
more than click on links for true understanding ... you have to be able 
to program which is digital writing. Hopefully it will get easier but 
writing is always difficult whether in text, audio, video or digits.

--Thom