[Publib] Arguing Technology

[Bird, Daryl]

You're sort of missing the point of these types of arguments. They're a
kind of sport among bromantic couples.

 

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By now you may have gained the impression that these people bore me.
While true, the point of this is that they and their arguments over
which electronic wrench to use are not particularly useful.  In point of
fact, they are without substantial benefit to the user base.  As, in
actual fact, are quite a few of the current (and seeming eternal)
discussions over systems, hardware, processing, and the like.  It is not
that the library doesn't rest on a solid core of information
processing--it is that the library doesn't begin or end in the back
room.  Even now, when the catalog is an OPAC and every system is run by
or through a computer, the library isn't a computer.  It isn't the
Internet.  And it certainly isn't anything offered by a software or
hardware vendor.

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