[Web4lib] Discord Over Dewey

[B.G. Sloan]

Jimm Wetherbee said: "My biggest gripe with it was it used the Deweyless Controversy as a touchstone for larger issues and so the article lost some of its focus."

I was actually kinda pleased that the author used the controversy as a springboard to discuss larger issues. I think the "Deweyless" controversy really is a synecdoche for a larger issue: what do libraries do to remain relevant in an age where "libraryless" access to information is so widespread? (Note: I'm not implying that libraries aren't relevant).

Bernie Sloan

Jimm Wetherbee <jimm at wingate.edu> wrote: Peter Morville wrote:
On first reading, the WSJ article made a much better presentation than
the NYT.  At least it didn't make the profession to be made up of
self-serving Luddites. My biggest grip with it was it used the Deweyless
Controversy as a touchstone for larger issues and so the article lost
some of its focus.

--jimm
 
> There's a write up in the Wall Street Journal online about the Perry Branch
> Library and the Googlization of Libraries:
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118340075827155554.html
>   

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