Summary
A retired Air Force officer now working on base in a civilian job is a newbie library student enrolled in his second class -- Basic Information Sources and Services -- and one of his assignments was to interview a living, breathing reference librarian, the author. He asked about what the author had done recently, and she mentioned that she was trying to teach a few guys how to use Real Simple Syndication for current awareness. He looked genuinely puzzled. The author's guess is that there are still people who drift into library school because they love books, and they do not want to accept the idea that the profession as a whole has changed radically.
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The Digital Divide Revisited
Maybe it shouldn't have been such a surprise when one of my customers (a retired Air Force officer now working on base in a civilian job) told me he had enrolled in library school.
As one of my regulars, he is a well-traveled man with a lively intellect who speak...See the full content of this document
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