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Geeks and Librarians

Yesterday, Dave Winer of Scripting.com pointed to this blog and delivered a lot of first time visitors. Thanks Dave! Specifically, he pointed to the entry Librarians and Programmers, which many people thought was interesting chiefly due to the contrasting sterotyping of the two professions. The purpose of my entry was expose the love-hate relationship among Librarians and Computer Scientists, and not so much whether people are using libraries. One of the patrons took exception (via email) to my generalization that libraries are losing their relevance in the Internet age due to the adamant librarian I depicted, and points to the following URLs as evidence on the contrary: • http://www.mla.gov.uk/news/press_article.asp?articleid=702 • http://sils.unc.edu/news/releases/2005/04_FLROIstudy.html I maintain that libraries and librarians have already lost their position as prime resources of information and as custodians of information, to sophisticated software systems like Google. I am not pleased about that -- just like all we humans were sad when a software defeated Kasparov (see: End of an Era) -- but it has happened, and denying it is a futile exercise. (Comments Disabled for Now. Sorry!) First Written: Friday, October 21, 2005 Last Modified: 10/21/2005 5:47:52 PM

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