http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/11/10/jim-rettigs-implementation-task-force/ K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/11/10/jim-rettigs-implementation-task-force/comment-page-1/#comment-93706 lis.dom » Blog Archive » doing what we can do Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:29:27 +0000 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2007/11/10/jim-rettigs-implementation-task-force/#comment-93706 [...] Defrag was, I am sure, a fascinating conference (if I had had a spare $1300 lying around somewhere, I would have gone–there was even a $140 roundtrip ticket from Billings). But I would guess that the people there were not trying to decide what books to read for story time, or how to do better outreach to the Spanish-speaking population, or how to teach people to use e-mail, or how to fit a thorough bibliographic instruction into one hour slot. That’s in no way meant as a criticism of defrag. It is meant to remind us (myself most emphatically included) that not every problem we have in libraries is a technology problem, that not everything we do can be done with technology, and that sometimes paper and markers work just fine. [...] [...] Defrag was, I am sure, a fascinating conference (if I had had a spare $1300 lying around somewhere, I would have gone–there was even a $140 roundtrip ticket from Billings). But I would guess that the people there were not trying to decide what books to read for story time, or how to do better outreach to the Spanish-speaking population, or how to teach people to use e-mail, or how to fit a thorough bibliographic instruction into one hour slot. That’s in no way meant as a criticism of defrag. It is meant to remind us (myself most emphatically included) that not every problem we have in libraries is a technology problem, that not everything we do can be done with technology, and that sometimes paper and markers work just fine. [...]

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