Comments on: Librarians As Anti-dote for Media Culture http://libdrone.info/2007/11/librarians-as-anti-dote-for-media-culture/ An almost daily report of interesting, unusual and noteworthy books that passed under my scanner. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:33:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Alan http://libdrone.info/2007/11/librarians-as-anti-dote-for-media-culture/#comment-267 Alan Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:54:00 +0000 http://libdrone.info/2007/11/librarians-as-anti-dote-for-media-culture/#comment-267 Actually, JD, I have to pop in here for just a moment to mention that I do not believe that the librarians I work with are in fact under-appreciated. They serve a public that comes in droves because they really are so friendly and helpful and the library really does have so much great stuff in addition to books on most anything under the sun. The voters who pay our salaries recently voted to tax themselves more and entrust us with more of Their money to provide them with a service they clearly value, as demonstrated by their clear willingness to pay for it, which they are always free to vote not to do. These librarians also work under a union contract for an extremely competent and very nurturing management who never stops telling them how important they are and what a great job they do. <br/><br/>Really, librarians don't appear so under appreciated from my view in the stacks. Most of the people I work with have been working together for more than a decade and as I have come to know what special people my co-workers are I'm increasingly thrilled to have been invited into their company. Actually, JD, I have to pop in here for just a moment to mention that I do not believe that the librarians I work with are in fact under-appreciated. They serve a public that comes in droves because they really are so friendly and helpful and the library really does have so much great stuff in addition to books on most anything under the sun. The voters who pay our salaries recently voted to tax themselves more and entrust us with more of Their money to provide them with a service they clearly value, as demonstrated by their clear willingness to pay for it, which they are always free to vote not to do. These librarians also work under a union contract for an extremely competent and very nurturing management who never stops telling them how important they are and what a great job they do.

Really, librarians don’t appear so under appreciated from my view in the stacks. Most of the people I work with have been working together for more than a decade and as I have come to know what special people my co-workers are I’m increasingly thrilled to have been invited into their company.

]]> By: techfun http://libdrone.info/2007/11/librarians-as-anti-dote-for-media-culture/#comment-260 techfun Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:42:00 +0000 http://libdrone.info/2007/11/librarians-as-anti-dote-for-media-culture/#comment-260 Good idea.  Librarians are so under appreciated now days.  Kids using online databases for research papers leave school thinking they actually know how to do research.  I had a Comp II class in college that had half of its grade based on a research paper (and its drafts).  The professor (who used to be a research assistant for James Michener and a close friend of Abby Hoffman) had a way to enforce good research habits.  We each had a hand out that had to be initialed by one of the college's two research librarian so they could sign off on each skill she wanted us to learn.  She wanted to make sure that we had the skills to be able to find things out for ourselves.   I can't express how much I appreciate Professor Margeret Dardis' iron hand in that course. Good idea.  Librarians are so under appreciated now days.  Kids using online databases for research papers leave school thinking they actually know how to do research.  I had a Comp II class in college that had half of its grade based on a research paper (and its drafts).  The professor (who used to be a research assistant for James Michener and a close friend of Abby Hoffman) had a way to enforce good research habits.  We each had a hand out that had to be initialed by one of the college’s two research librarian so they could sign off on each skill she wanted us to learn.  She wanted to make sure that we had the skills to be able to find things out for ourselves.   I can’t express how much I appreciate Professor Margeret Dardis’ iron hand in that course.

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