[Web4lib] Waiting for the Wrong Train?

[Le Beau, Chris]

I couldn't agree more with Roy. While employed in a library fulltime, I had to use my library for my graduate studies for some years and I also have traveled the country assisting with research in various libraries.  I have been painfully aware of the disconnect between perceptions of the librarian and the reality of the user. Every librarian should have to be a user. 
 
Chris LeBeau
University of Missouri-Kansas City
816-235-6371 voice
 
 
 
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:14:04 -0700
From: Roy Tennant <roy.tennant at ucop.edu>
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Libraries: Standing at the Wrong Platform,
        Waiting for the Wrong Train?
To: Web4Lib <web4lib at webjunction.org>
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Another point about Lisa's story is that we should all use our own 
libraries as our users would (not as librarians who are often 
afforded special dispensation). Often when I do this I am not pleased 
about one thing or another, and it's those things upon which we need 
to focus our attention.
Roy