[WEB4LIB] Re: Coughing up Coffman

[Dan Lester]

At 08:27 AM 8/24/99 -0700, Roy Tennant wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Karen G. Schneider wrote:
>
> > Apathetic? O.k., I'll bite.  Some of the ideas were fun.  But some of
>[more at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive/9908/0201.html ]
>
>For those Web4Lib readers wondering who called anyone apathetic, please
>see the PubLib posting at:
>
>http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/PubLib/archive/9908/0291.html

Well, I think apathy describes the reactions all over.  There has been an 
attempt to get such a discussion going on pacs-l, and it, too, has met with 
apathy.  Maybe people don't care.  Maybe people are too busy with "back to 
school" activities.  Maybe people are burned out.  Maybe they figure their 
opinion won't make a damn bit of difference, at least in this forum.

In my experience on a multitude of library lists the things that really get 
people going (other than Dr. Laura and filtering) are the discussions of 
"how we do it good in Podunk" or "how should I do such and such" (when 
there are differences of opinion).

Other than that, Karen has indeed described it correctly.  Apathy.

dan

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