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The Librarian in Black blogging about Stephen Abram’s CLA 2006 speech:

He quoted Karen Schneider’s famous line: “The user is not broken.” We are trying to turn our users into little librarians. We should not market “information literacy” — we are calling users illiterate before they come to us for help. That does not begin that person’s experience in a good way. Over 40% of online users create their own content for the web. They are online. Where are we?

Oh, brother, YES!

That’s just the tip of the great, thought-provoking iceberg of things Stephen said. I’m sorry I couldn’t hear his talk in person. I thank my lucky stars Sarah Houghton-Jan is such a great conference blogger.

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