Re: [LM_NET] Libraries Obsolete

[Tony Pope <pope1966@ATT.NET>]

I really enjoyed you posting.  It made me think of a book I have in my professional 
collection at school that talks about libraries through the years.  Until I read 
it, I had never considered at one time the "typewriter" was a "new technology!"  
When I had my INTRODUCTION TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES class back in the early 1990s, the 
stuff we couldn't wait to get our hands on were satellites, CD's, and a FAX machine!

Tony Pope
Library Media Specialist
McHenry Primary School
100 McHenry Dr.
Rome, GA  30161
Pope1966@att.net




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From: Marilyn Kulkarni <mask1@COMCAST.NET>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Thu, June 3, 2010 12:38:47 PM
Subject: Re: Libraries Obsolete

I don't think you are correct that technology is not a library function.  When 
library science was begun, Melville Dewey used the technology of the day, 
alphabetized cards, to make a user friendly interface to search the collection.  
When I was in graduate school in 1974 we created a searchable database using IBM 
paper cards.  When I took classes again in the early 80s we used APL to create a 
database of abstracts of journal article that could be searched by the computer.  
We are on the cutting edge as a profession but some people fall off the edge before 
they are able to get a good grasp of the technology.  We are the future if we 
choose to be so. 



Marilyn Kulkarni 

Librarian 

Brandywine High School 

Wilmington, DE 

mask1@comcast.net 


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