Michael Gorman, I'm ashamed of you.

[bunnyjadwiga]

Ok, as Librarians, we've all had occasions when our deans, directors or what-have-you administrative supervisor says something that makes us want to hide in the basement behind the 020s until everyone forgets.

But Michael Gorman has done it for the whole profession. His "Revenge of the Blog People" editorial in proves that narrowminded, longwinded

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[juergen]

Mr. Gorman will be delighted to see that the on-line version of his article is framed by ads provided by Google advertising (of all things) a variety of blogging sites. Granted, your mileage may vary, being that Goooogle ads are even more non-deterministic than the rest of Google, but I am relatively sure that that is what will come up for most people if they visit the article. Isn't it ironic?

*grin*

[bunnyjadwiga]

Yup, I noticed that. :)

[fuzzybutchkins]

one of the pissed-off librarians quoted someone criticizing Gorman:

Blogs pose no threat to the press. They do pose a great threat to the cultural filters put in place by librarians. - vintercept

That got my attention, and as my resident librarian, i would love your opinion of librarian-imposed cultural filters.

Cultural filters

[bunnyjadwiga]

I'll let another librarian speak for me

Re: Cultural filters

[fuzzybutchkins]

that sounds like a very positive spin on the concept. however, the quoted person makes it sound negative. do you know what ze is referring to?