[Publib] "Old" librarian

[K.G. Schneider]

Well, and I hope that since it's almost Friday I'm allowed such a
comment, please not that I was not agreeing that it proved the point
about older librarians -- in fact, as an older librarian, just the
opposite. I'm not trying to speak ill of Ms. Rheay as a person, but
based on her own family's testimony, I'm guessing as a manager, she
would have driven me batty. 

On the other hand, check back with me in 20 years and see if I'm
mourning the good old days when a gal could just do a Google search and
wouldn't have to insert a chip in her ear to retrieve an answer for a
patron...

K.G. Schneider
kgs at freerangelibrarian.com

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:26:08 -0400, "Caroline Desrosiers"
<caroline.desrosiers at gmail.com> said:
> I was going to stay out of this (very entertaining) discussion, but I
> have
> to jump in here.  Yes, Ms. Rheay's aversion to technology seems to prove
> Hillary's point about older librarians, but as a young-ish librarian (I'm
> 35, in the interest of full disclosure) I will throw this out there.  I
> teach computer classes for my library system, and a lot of my students
> are
> older patrons who are overwhelmed by new technology.  It's a huge
> learning
> curve and it seems to me that those of us coming into the profession with
> computer skills (due in large part because we grew up with computers) owe
> it
> to our older colleagues to help them become comfortable with new
> technology.
> 
> My older colleagues have helped me immeasurably with the 'more
> traditional'
> aspects of library service, so the least I can do is help them out with
> computer issues.  If we're not learning from each other we're wasting
> some
> pretty important resources, don't you think?
> 
> Caroline
> 
> 
> On 3/27/08, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Her classic approach included an aversion to technology, her nephew
> > said." Um...
> >
> >