[Web4lib] NY Times review of “This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us Al

[Sharon Clapp]

Bernie, 
Thanks for sending the link & the quote.
I've been wondering for quite a while now how we replicate that
experience online:
"...in the manner of a woozy reader exploring the stacks". 
I think that's a feeling that we all cherish and remember from our
early experiences with the physical library...



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>>> "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> 3/15/2010 6:51 PM >>>

 
The NY Times recently reviewed Marilyn Johnson's “This Book Is
Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”:
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Kennedy-t.html 
 
It's largely a favorable review, but there is one interesting passage:

 
"Johnson cheerleads for these Brave New Librarians, championing the
efficiency of online searches and digitized archives. And yet, without
meaning to, her book comes off as a paean to a previous age, when
fact-finding meant trekking through the Dewey Decimal System. Johnson
writes best when she’s meandering and browsing, in the manner of a
woozy reader exploring the stacks. In her most absorbing passages, I
felt as if I were back in the children’s library, scrutinizing a
volume of the World Book Encyclopedia."
 
Bernie Sloan


      
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