[Web4lib] Attending/Presenting at conferences in difficult times / Dissolution of Reference

[Brian Gray]

I do not think he was comparing conference goers versus those that do not. I
think he was countering your statement that all our answers are in books or
articles. i thought he was suggesting that if all our answers are in
publication and we just copy what everyone else has done, we just becomes
servants rather than innovators.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Robert Balliot <rballiot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ross,
>
> I am not sure how you are getting to the definition of 'servant', so I
> can't
> answer your question. Are you saying that people who go to meetings are
> defined as professional, while everyone else is a servant?
>
> That may be one of the fundamental problems with the lock-step group-think
> notions about meeting attendance I challenged here. The people who attend
> the meetings have been sold the idea that they are of a higher class /
> caste
> than non-attendees - even if they are not active participants. And, of
> course, an abundance of snacks
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVgZlaVtEu8>validate self-worth.
>
> But, it is often the people who would benefit the most from meetings and
> conferences that are unable to attend. They are busy working. That is one
> of
> the reasons why I think facilitating
> telepresence<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcfNC_x0VvE&feature=related
> >can
> be extremely helpful to any meeting or conference.  The capacity to
> reach people who can and will use the information is exponentially
> increased.
>
>
> R. Balliot
> http://oceanstatelibrarian.com
>