[WEB4LIB] RE: FW: LJ: ALA Prez-Elect Gorman on the

[Karen Coyle]

What bothers me most about Gorman's article is the tone of disdain. 
Librarians are supposed to promote reading and learning and to help 
people get excited about doing research and enjoying texts that take 
time and effort. To have the president of the association react to the 
unlearned (in his view) with snide remarks is not good for the 
profession. You don't encourage anyone to read by calling them names and 
treating them as inferior.

In a sense, I agree with Gorman's view of blogs -- I don't see them as 
being the same as news articles from newspapers or magazines, and 
definitely not the same as a scholarly treatise. I'd like to be able to 
filter them out of any searches I do on the net when I'm looking for 
something more substantial. I don't have time to read them, and 
definitely don't have time to write one. He could have said all that 
without insulting anyone.

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