http://jessamyn.com/journal/2009/10/someones-fancy ten years of jessamyn Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:04:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://jessamyn.com/journal/2009/10/someones-fancy/comment-page-1#comment-29695 Brian Herzog Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:09:14 +0000 http://www.jessamyn.com/journal/?p=430#comment-29695 Good for you on both counts - you know you deserve it. But I'm personally happy about the SXSW digital divide panel. At NELA, Stephen Abrams was talking about the digital divide and quipped that DVD would be a dead format in 5 years so how are we preparing to dump those collections. My reaction was, What? We're librarians - we still support VHS, audio cassette, and who knows what else, because people use those as much as they use mp3s and mp4s. When talking about bridging the digital divide, libraries need to focus on the "bridge" part - not just jumping across to keep up with the latest and greatest. Blah blah blah... Good for you on both counts – you know you deserve it. But I’m personally happy about the SXSW digital divide panel. At NELA, Stephen Abrams was talking about the digital divide and quipped that DVD would be a dead format in 5 years so how are we preparing to dump those collections. My reaction was, What? We’re librarians – we still support VHS, audio cassette, and who knows what else, because people use those as much as they use mp3s and mp4s. When talking about bridging the digital divide, libraries need to focus on the “bridge” part – not just jumping across to keep up with the latest and greatest. Blah blah blah…

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