Lesson #19

The Iceberg article was interesting, and I found myself not necessarily agreeing with alot of what they said. My biggest problem with the article was that they seemed to leave out the idea of the library being a "community" place. For one thing, many of our patrons don't want to be self-sufficient. They come into our buildings for some social interraction. What happened to the days of discussing the latest best seller?

As I read on, I found a paragraph from the article titled Into a New World of Librarianship that particularly struck me: "This librarian does not buy technology for the sake of technology. “Techno-worship” does not exist here. Without a firm foundation in the mission and goals of the institution, new technologies are not implemented for the sake of coolness and status. " I liked what he said here. Although new technology is very important, I agree with him that buying simply because it's new, is not the wisest. Unfortunately, we've learned that the hard way at KCLS particularly with Millennium and possibly AMH as well...