Okay, so you're about my age. :) You got into the tech earlier than I did (the first 'puter I ever worked with, other than the mostly useless Apple IIs at school, was a Commodore 64).
What bugs me about the whole librarian vs. tech thing is a strong unwillingness to experiment. Yeah, you know, maybe IM in libraries is a stupid idea. But how are we gonna know for sure unless we try?
And obviously we can't try everything. And obviously we should think it through before we try. But I keep seeing these two obviosities trotted out as reasons not to try anything new at all, and that makes me sad. And sometimes angry.
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What bugs me about the whole librarian vs. tech thing is a strong unwillingness to experiment. Yeah, you know, maybe IM in libraries is a stupid idea. But how are we gonna know for sure unless we try?
And obviously we can't try everything. And obviously we should think it through before we try. But I keep seeing these two obviosities trotted out as reasons not to try anything new at all, and that makes me sad. And sometimes angry.