An diesem wunderschönen Morgen wollte ich Ihnen nicht vorenthalten, dass T.Scott uns Medizinbibliothekaren ganz ordentlich Honig um den Mund schmiert. 🙂 In seinem Fall ist das erlaubt, da er ja selbst einer ist seit 1983:
- One of the things that makes me grateful that I ended up in medical libraries is that the notion of experimentation seems to come more easily to us than to our colleagues in academic or public libraries, particularly in regard to IT.
- I realized fairly quickly that medical libraries were ten to fifteen years ahead of general academic libraries in their adoption of new technologies:
- It was simply assumed that a savvy medical librarian was technically astute and making use of the latest information technology available.
- I defy anyone to look at those faces [of the Computers in Libraries Conference] and read what they write and follow what they’re doing in their libraries and not believe that the future of librarianship is very bright indeed.
Eigentlich geht es in seiner Post allerdings um das – professionelle – Bloggen der diesjährigen MLA-Konferenz, das von der MLA selber heftig eingeworben und gefördert wird:
Selected bloggers „will receive wireless Internet access for the duration of the Annual Conference AND MLA will acknowledge your contribution to the membership on the MLA Conference pages. All Official Conference Blogs will be listed on the Blog Roll at the MLA Conference Wiki.“
Ich frage mich gerade, ob diese US-amerikanische Innovationsfreude und Benutzerorientierung vielleicht so eine Art Krankheit ist, verbreitet durch einen ansteckenden Virus? Seitdem ich 1995 da mal reinriechen durfte, fühle ich mich irgendwie ganz seltsam, wie infiziert …