[WEB4LIB] RE: Seeing ourselves as others see us

[Marc Truitt]

To be precise, Gorman was LITA President in 1999-2000.  Gorman is an 
easy target; has strongly-held beliefs and is not afraid to be 
passionate in expressing them.  But he is no enemy of the appropriate 
application of technology in libraries.

And while it may sound trite, he has made enormous contributions to the 
profession; to refer to but the most obvious, how many of us can lay 
claim to a work that has been even fractionally as influential to 
librarianship as has AACR2?

Thank you for bringing us back to reality, Bernie.

- mt

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A turn of the page
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Sloan, Bernie wrote:
> Michael Yunkin said:
> 
> "Michael Gorman needn't pander to the anti-tech crowd; he is their
> leader."
> 
> If that's true then it's more than a little ironic that he was elected
> president of LITA a few years ago.
> 
> Bernie Sloan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of
> Michael.Yunkin at ccmail.nevada.edu
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 4:06 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Seeing ourselves as others see us
> 
> 
> 
>>Most of [Gorman's] editorial struck me as last-gen, hoity-toity word
>>pudding that pandered to the anti-technology crowd more than it
> 
> provided
> any
> 
>>meaningful critiques of Google Print.
> 
> 
> Michael Gorman needn't pander to the anti-tech crowd; he is their
> leader.
> 
> -M