[WEB4LIB] Re: Coughing up Coffman

[Jennifer Sweeney]

I hope it's not apathy.  Feels more like Coffman has told us that the
emperor has no clothes, and guess who is feeling the breeze.  I will join
you out on this limb: Our users need this!  Let's go for it! 

I am stymied on the How's of the thing myself (but it doesn't take much to
do that to me in any event).  Keep thinking, people.

Hey, we could call it LibraryDotCom.
Jen

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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Dan Lester wrote:

> 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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