[WEB4LIB] Re: Library web site organization

[John Creech]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Mary E. Faccioli wrote:

> In my opinion, if you want to know why some think this profession is a
> sinking ship it's largely because of this idea that we must "force"
> users to behave in ways contrary to their nature, and also contrary to
> ways other "non-library" information sources provide.

I don't believe that we're part of a sinking ship, but I've thought for
years that we've been trying to turn our users into little librarians.  
And with the web, that just doesn't work anymore, at all.

John Creech, CWU Library