I’ve been working in a library for the past two years. Although I don’t have a library degree, I do have a degree in a field that works with many of the same issues. Cognitive science also deals with questions about information and how humans process it.
But that doesn’t really explain why this blog was created. It was created because I grew tired of watching traditional librarians fight technologies that could be beneficial to the user. The great example of course being Google Scholar.
I’m tired of hearing crap like “We’ve already paid a lot of money for the licensed indexes, so we should use them.” I’m tired of hearing librarians condescend to the very people they’re trying to help. If patrons are going to other sources it’s not because they’re “unskilled in information literacy” or stupid. It’s because we’ve failed in providing easy to use tools.
So this blog will be equal parts rant and technoligical trinkets that may help patrons and librarians alike.
Josh rulez.