Digerati less inclined to see a library...

[curr at mnsinc.com]

--- On Thu, 14 Nov 1996 23:57:54 -0800  Four-Color Fiend <shot at panix.com> 
wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Bo Simons wrote:
>> year olds don't look to librarians for computer/Internet mentoring....
>
>Why should they?
>
>Don't know if my branch library is atypical, but of the seven librarians
>assigned only three have Internet experience and only one, besides myself
>has an Internet account.  I know dozens of librarians who neither have nor
>desire such accounts.  I'm sure that if the average patron asked a
>librarian about the internet they would get little more than a shrug from
>a majority of them.
>
>Oh, yes, to be fair only one of the clerical staff has any training with
>the 'net.
>
>Steve C.
>

After having been in an environment since 1989 of computer systems 
analysts, everytime I see the "feirld reporst" as the above, I cannot help 
but wonder if librarianship is a moribund profession. However, if it's any 
consolation, until recently, very very of the systems analysts I've worked 
with had any experience in any way on the Internet.


Cliff Urr
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Date: 11/15/96
Time: 11:31:57 AM