Comments on: The Library 2.0 professional, and all the rest http://subjectobject.net/2007/07/18/the-library-20-professional-and-all-the-rest/ Home of Steven Chabot and his writings on knowledge, books, computers, and libraries. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:10:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: Sarah Houghton-Jan http://subjectobject.net/2007/07/18/the-library-20-professional-and-all-the-rest/comment-page-1/#comment-30559 Sarah Houghton-Jan Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:50:29 +0000 http://subjectobject.net/2007/07/18/the-library-20-professional-and-all-the-rest/#comment-30559 <p>Thank you Steve. And of course I would never want you to change your thoughts on the subject. In fact, I agree with much of what you're saying. I just don't think anyone I know who promotes tech knowledge for librarians who also thinks that tech is the answer to any problem, or that traditional library skills should be tossed out the window.</p> Thank you Steve. And of course I would never want you to change your thoughts on the subject. In fact, I agree with much of what you’re saying. I just don’t think anyone I know who promotes tech knowledge for librarians who also thinks that tech is the answer to any problem, or that traditional library skills should be tossed out the window.

]]> By: Steven Chabot http://subjectobject.net/2007/07/18/the-library-20-professional-and-all-the-rest/comment-page-1/#comment-30414 Steven Chabot Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:29:41 +0000 http://subjectobject.net/2007/07/18/the-library-20-professional-and-all-the-rest/#comment-30414 <p>"unwillingness to take on anything new"</p> <p>This is from your post. Whether I drew too strong of a conclusion from this line is a matter of interpretation.</p> <p>However, I have edited the line you have cited and replaced it with the line above. It doesn't change my thoughts, and I hope that is satisfactory to you.</p> “unwillingness to take on anything new”

This is from your post. Whether I drew too strong of a conclusion from this line is a matter of interpretation.

However, I have edited the line you have cited and replaced it with the line above. It doesn’t change my thoughts, and I hope that is satisfactory to you.

]]> By: Sarah Houghton-Jan http://subjectobject.net/2007/07/18/the-library-20-professional-and-all-the-rest/comment-page-1/#comment-30412 Sarah Houghton-Jan Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:09:45 +0000 http://subjectobject.net/2007/07/18/the-library-20-professional-and-all-the-rest/#comment-30412 <p>You wrote: "Both question how professionals can still seem to hold on to old practices in the face of “Library 2.0″." That's not what I said or implied in my post, nor was it in the Library Garden post. That is what I'm referring to.</p> You wrote: “Both question how professionals can still seem to hold on to old practices in the face of “Library 2.0″.” That’s not what I said or implied in my post, nor was it in the Library Garden post. That is what I’m referring to.

]]> By: Steven Chabot http://subjectobject.net/2007/07/18/the-library-20-professional-and-all-the-rest/comment-page-1/#comment-30409 Steven Chabot Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:25:18 +0000 http://subjectobject.net/2007/07/18/the-library-20-professional-and-all-the-rest/#comment-30409 <p>I don't think I attributed any conclusions to your work at all. All I said was that it raised questions I had been thinking about. I neither agreed nor disagreed with anything you had to say. And I did not misquote you, because I did not quote.</p> <p>Thank you for allowing me to springboard some ideas off your thoughts.</p> I don’t think I attributed any conclusions to your work at all. All I said was that it raised questions I had been thinking about. I neither agreed nor disagreed with anything you had to say. And I did not misquote you, because I did not quote.

Thank you for allowing me to springboard some ideas off your thoughts.

]]> By: Sarah Houghton-Jan http://subjectobject.net/2007/07/18/the-library-20-professional-and-all-the-rest/comment-page-1/#comment-30408 Sarah Houghton-Jan Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:12:17 +0000 http://subjectobject.net/2007/07/18/the-library-20-professional-and-all-the-rest/#comment-30408 <p>I encourage you to read the posts you are responding to closer before replying to them. Neither of us questioned how libraries could hold on to old practices. We question how librarians, professionals, can refuse to become educated about new technologies, new resources, new ways of connecting our users with information--claiming that it is not important to our work or that it's "just a fad" -- a ridiculous claim for things like IM that have been around for well over a decade. In addition, neither of us in any way implied that technology was the solution or reason for any library failure. Talk about your own ideas, please--that's what the web is all about. But but please don't misquote or attribute false conclusions to my work.</p> I encourage you to read the posts you are responding to closer before replying to them. Neither of us questioned how libraries could hold on to old practices. We question how librarians, professionals, can refuse to become educated about new technologies, new resources, new ways of connecting our users with information–claiming that it is not important to our work or that it’s “just a fad” — a ridiculous claim for things like IM that have been around for well over a decade. In addition, neither of us in any way implied that technology was the solution or reason for any library failure. Talk about your own ideas, please–that’s what the web is all about. But but please don’t misquote or attribute false conclusions to my work.

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