HTML: WEB typography

[Greg MacGowan]

At 07:47 PM 5/24/98 -0700, Richard L. Goerwitz wrote:
> Typically, though, you expect librarians to know about things
>like SGML, XML, stylesheets.

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>But then this is just me.  Doubtless the folks sitting on the other side
>of the fence will find my sentiments to be equally surprising.

You're right, your sentiments are surprising. I like to think we have a
pretty smart, progressive bunch of people here at Brandeis, but most of my
colleagues don't know the first thing about the alphabet soup of SGML, XML,
TEI, etc., Furthermore, I don't think they are any worse off for it,
insofar as they are still VERY good at doing their jobs as catalogers,
bibliographers, ILL managers, reference librarians, etc. The day may
eventually arrive when librarians must know about SGML, etc. to do their
jobs, but that day is not yet here. 

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Greg S. MacGowan
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Brandeis University Libraries
Brandeis University
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