[Publib] The need for librarians

[Fred Beisser]

Here is link to another of the columns by Jamie LaRue, Douglas County 
(Colorado) Library District Director, who presently has a Nov 6 ballot 
issue to fund a new branch library in Parker, Colorado. His constant 
stream of information that he provides keeps his constituants updated 
and armed with reasons to vote FOR funding the project.

http://tinyurl.com/2ulr4t

Fred Beisser
Trustee
www.elbertcountylibrary.org
(Colorado)


Kathleen Stipek wrote:

>It annoys me that we have to HAVE articles like this.  The only people
>who natter on with enthusiasm about librarians going the way of the dodo
>are administrators and governments that want to have smaller paid staffs
>and technophiles who have the money and leisure to invest in acquiring
>and mastering gadgets.  These people, whose intentions may be of the
>best, have not worked with a live library patron in a very long time, if
>ever.  They assume that everybody is a skilled searcher which is just
>wrong.  I work in a university town where one could assume some search
>skills, and every day I encounter people who cannot phrase a question
>that will elicit an answer without the assistance of librarians who can
>get the need out of them and then make a question that can get an
>answer.  We are still the ones who can evaluate the quality and source
>of an answer and make a rational decision about whether the answer is
>valid.  Librarians and library paraprofessionals are the carbon-based
>interface between the people and the gadgets.  People are going to have
>to get a lot better-educated, and search engines are going to have to
>become a lot esier to use before library people go anywhere.
>
>Kathleen Stipek
>Alachua County Library District
>401 East University Avenue
>Gainesville, Florida 32601
>(352-334-3931) fax (352-334-3948)
>
>--Non, merci.
>  Cyrano de Bergerac
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: publib-bounces at webjunction.org
>[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Fred Beisser
>Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:29 AM
>To: publib at webjunction.org
>Subject: [Publib] The need for librarians
>
>Check out "33 Reasons Librarians Are Still Extremely Important at
>http://www.degreetutor.com/library/adult-continued-education/librarians-
>needed.
>
>Fred Beisser
>Trustee
>www.elbertcountylibrary.org
>Colorado
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