November 14th, 2006
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.
Awww, shucks. You’re welcome :)