[WEB4LIB] Promoting library classes

[Dennis Moser]

Oh no, Roy, that's from Canadians, eh? and they're MUCH too polite to get up
and walk out...some of The Next Generation around here (Lord deliver me from
experiencing the Health Care System when these folks take up practice!)
would probably leave without a second thought. And loudly.

Dennis "It's only 97 at 1:00pm. We set the record at 3:00 yesterday (107),
so we've still got time!" Moser
Dennis Moser, MILS, Web Librarian
John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center
Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library
1133 M. D. Anderson Blvd, Houston, TX 77030-2809
dennism at library.tmc.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Tennant <roy.tennant at ucop.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Date: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:53 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Promoting library classes


>Those of us who working at college and university libraries are once
>again victims of a perennial phenomenon, wherein large numbers of
>ever-younger people start flooding our places of employment. Besides
>taking our table at our favorite coffee shop, they wander into our
>work spaces with blank looks on their faces. In a feeble attempt to
>wipe that blank look from their faces, we painstakingly prepare
>various courses and drop-in sessions to try to explain why it's so
>darn hard to use our systems and collections. It would be very
>gratifying if someone showed up. That's why I was happily surprised
>to stumble across this imaginative and funny way to promote those
>classes that we all too often promote with rather feeble publicity
>attempts. Please see:
>
>http://library.usask.ca/sept2000/
>
>Then imagine what is interesting and important to the
>seventeen-year-olds who are now invading your space. You can bet it
>isn't the library catalog, but if you can just get them in the door,
>they'll be too embarrassed to get up and leave after you start
>talking.
>Roy
>