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Post by edwin on Mar 14, 2015 10:05:59 GMT
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Post by gladys on Mar 17, 2015 15:45:26 GMT
OMG Edwin, where can I get one? I'll keep it right next to the one that says "Librarians, The Thin Blue Line between you and the FBI", and the one that says "Homeland Security Since 1492" with Geranimo on it..... Gladys Another retired Information Specialist.......  |
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Post by edwin on Mar 18, 2015 16:16:25 GMT
Sorry, the Good Lady Wife copied it to me from a Facebook post on her iPad. Advert for orders to get print if they got 10+ orders but she can't find it now.
Surprises me that PA novels may well have IT experts along with other tech survivors but rarely Information scientists of librarians. In fact Alas Babylon is the only one I can think of and the librarian in the BBC tv Survivors who had a criminal record!
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Post by edwin on Mar 18, 2015 17:16:47 GMT
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Post by edwin on Mar 18, 2015 17:19:38 GMT
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Post by gladys on Mar 18, 2015 17:31:16 GMT
Thanks! Just ordered one.
Don't know if you had the sort of bruhaha about the description of the profession on your side of the pond:i.e., librarian, library-media specialist, information specialist etc. etc. I think librarians (as distinguished from some of the later descriptions) could be useful in a PA situation 'cause we know how to do things the old fashioned way that doesn't necessarily involve electricity and a keyboard.Once or twice in the original Survivors reference was made to going to a library for some "how to" books, and Greg gave a lovely speech in a deserted school-they were looking for a wheelchair for Vic-about the importance of books. And then their was what episode where they quoted Wordsworth at length-something you'd never get away with in an American made show. So on the whole, too bad the only character who was definitely named as a librarian was a criminal, but the rest more than makes up for it.
What will happen when the batteries on everyone's Kindles wear out?
Gladys
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Post by edwin on Mar 19, 2015 8:05:03 GMT
Senior librarians should have had the guts to insist on retaining libraries rather than them becoming feeble entertainment centres. For me the way forward was a collegiate model of subject experts, including fiction and children's, forming the "board" with one more senior to represent the organisation who could be deputised for when necessary by any member of the board. Think how much management money that would have saved!
Proper examination of the true strengths of libraries and concentration on those, personal enquiry services, access to information in both electronic and hard-copy forms. Having done it informally I would have had librarian and public working on learning plans for individuals. Lots more I won't bore people with. All under the labels Library and Librarian.
As we know it ain't just acquiring information but the ordering and accessing it that is important, something that Ish in Earth Abides didn't realise when overwhelming his son in the major library.
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