Do librarians need basic HTML capabilities?

[Michael Haseltine]

I guess I want to stick my oar into this discussion.

I think the idea that to do web pages you need to know how to write html is
a little shortsighted. There are some who are stuck with fixing up their
paper documents with reveal codes, but the rest of us have moved on to word
processors that take care of that in the background. The same thing will
happen with web documents, and even better, it's most likely all web editors
will use the same file format: html. And we won't have to read or write it.

Understanding html is definitely not necessary to understand hypertext. Ask
Ted...damn, what's his name? It's right there on the tip of my tongue...the
inventor of the concept, long before html. The concept is trivial, anyway.
The real concerns are about creating useful information resources on the
internet and using them for the benefit of our clients, now that we have at
our disposal this neat tool.
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Michael Haseltine -- Arid Lands Information Center, University of Arizona
haseltin at ag.arizona.edu