Digerati less inclined to see a library...

[curr at mnsinc.com]

Wanted to repost this message below, which had errors in it in my reply - 
now corrected - that made it incoherent:


>--- 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 "field reports" such as the above, I cannot 
help but wonder if librarianship is a moribund profession. However, if it's 

any consolation, until recently, very, very few 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: 4:25:43 PM