Thank you SO much for sharing this quote. I am going to request this
article via ILL (if I cannot find it on one of my databases!). It is
EXACTLY what I have been saying for years. We don't often get the
recognition we deserve. But while most of the world could only dream
about the information revolution, we were busy building the
superstructure needed to make it a success. I have been a librarian for
over 30 years. I remember using punch cards. I remember faithfully
sending catalog cards to our School Library System, because "someday"
all our holdings would be searchable from one database. I remember when
we had a computer with a tape recorder as a drive, rather than a floppy
disk. I remember when a double disk drive was the epitome of high-tech!
Heck - let's face it - I remember the abacus!
So - keep up the good fight everyone. We are Information SuperHeros!
Jacquie
"The Librarian, whose job is to heal ignorance, to keep life safe for
poetry and to put knowledge smack dab in the middle of the American
way."
From The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9-20-03
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jacquie Henry, MLS
Ruben A. Cirillo High School (GHS)
Gananda Central School District
3195 Wiedrick Road
Macedon, NY 14502
jhenry@gananda.org
http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/indexgcl.htm
>>> Gayle Lawrence <lawrenceg@SANDITES.ORG> 11/08/04 01:00PM >>>
One of my teachers sent this quote to me today. Sometimes we take for
granted the great strides librarians have taken in the last 10-15
years.
This reminder made me proud of our profession.
"If you had told people a decade ago that card catalogs would
virtually
disappear within ten years and would be replaced by our current
information-management systems, they would not have believed you.
Librarians
have been the real heroes of the digital revolution in higher
education.
They are the ones who have seen the farthest, done the most, accepted
the
hardest challenges, and demonstrated most clearly the benefits of
digital
information. In the process, they have turned their own field upside
down
and have revolutionized their professional training. It is testimony
to
their success that we take their achievement-and their
information-management systems-for granted."
Quoted from: The Academic Culture and the IT Culture: Their Effect on
Teaching and
Scholarship By Edward L. Ayers EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 39, no. 6
(Nov/Dec
2004): 48-62.
Edward L. Ayers is Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences and is Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History at the University
of
Virginia.
Gayle Lawrence
Librarian
Charles Page High School
Sand Springs, OK
lawrenceg@sandites.org
http://www.sandites.org/cphs/Library
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