Comments on: Law Librarians Should Just Be Glad Anyone Knows Their Names

By: OK

OK — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:56:47 +0000

bchfc commented:

“Ninety-five percent of all librarians could never handle being a law librarian.”

Just like 95% of all law librarians couldn’t handle being an actual attorney.

By: a

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:20:12 +0000

Legal professionals write too much. They will always need librarians.

By: I Like Books

I Like Books — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:53:43 +0000

I’ve seen in one or two places professors complaining that since students have been relying more on internet sources for their research, the quality of their work has dropped. No explanation was given, but I thought it was interesting.

By: NotMarianTheLibrarian

NotMarianTheLibrarian — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:28:56 +0000

Unless they’re veterans or my contemporaries none of my students use my first name. A full professor (with whom I’m on a first name basis) counseled me years ago to insist that students give me the respect/deference due my position (hahaha) and age. And lots come to see me because they know Ms. NotMariantheLibrarian can help them figure stuff out. When I hear libraries/librarians and relevance in the same sentence I want to ask “where the hell do you work?” As faculty raise the bar on student work, our numbers continue to rise – reference questions, e-mails, chat, library instruction, etc.

Faculty do appreciate the librarians here and many students do as well. It’s far preferable to the snake pit that was Corporate Library work. Talk about fetching slippers! That and more where I worked.

By: Picard

Picard — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:57:23 +0000

Needs a Nym makes a good point. Reference librarians are becoming less relevant to the patrons experience. Note his use of “less relevant” instead of “not relevant. Two many Directors and Administrators can’t tell the difference. Moderation and wise judgement is not a prerequisite for library leaders. One doesn’t get to be a celebrated mover and shaker preaching moderation. Thus change fostering morons are in charge.

By: Needs a ''nym

Needs a ''nym — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:25:42 +0000

I Like Books: Your comment makes a good point, but it’s based around a common mistake that I think needs to be addressed: You’re conflating the need for reference librarians with the need for libraries.

As more people become comfortable with searching OPAC-like things, it’s likely that they’ll have less need for the intercession of a reference librarian in order to find a book. Regardless of the relevance of the library, the reference librarian will become less relevant to the patron’s experience.

By: I Like Books

I Like Books — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:20:18 +0000

If librarians are becoming less relevant, I really think it’s due to a shift in the culture rather than technology. The internet is a replacement for simple reference questions like statistics, when did So-and-So die, encyclopedia articles, popular culture, etc., although the quality isn’t always high. (I’m also assuming that most public libraries haven’t lost a lot of users of academic journals to on-line databases.)

When you’re looking for comprehensive or in-depth information (or a novel), you need BOOKS. You won’t find that on a web page unless the web page is 400 pages long, i.e. a book in electronic format. And despite some books being offered on-line and in formats like the Kindle, it’s not many of them, and not the non-fiction that I’ve been reading, and it’s mostly the committed geeks who’ve been reading them. If you’re really interested in something, you can a five page Wikipedia article (and that same basic information might be repeated again and again on two thousand other web pages), or get thousands of pages at the library.

If libraries are becoming less relevant it’s because, for whatever reason, people don’t have as much book-length interest or attention span.

By: Elisa

Elisa — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:19:41 +0000

Cheers…where everybody knows your name.

By: snoopylibrarian

snoopylibrarian — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:32:18 +0000

Not only do the patrons at my library know my name they know my kids and grandkids. They value my opinion on what’s good to read for themselves and their children. They like to discuss what they’ve read and what they want to read. Am I relevant. Yeah I am. Oh by the way our circulation has risen 40% in the last six months while our computer usage has only risen 5%.

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