Comments on: “Bring Me the Head of Seth Godin!” http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/ the neverending reference interview of life Fri, 17 May 2013 00:38:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Strategic planning: real or imagined? | bringyournoise http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4741 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:51:17 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4741 [...] of libraries. Not all the reaction from “library people” was negative (PC Sweeney; Andy Woodworth among others). Many of us do recognize the need to listen to voices outside of the choir. But too [...]

]]> By: Bibliotheken en het Digitale Leven in Mei 2011 « Dee'tjes http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4740 Tue, 31 May 2011 22:07:59 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4740 [...] For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime  Niet iedereen stelde t op prijs:  “Bring Me the Head of Seth Godin!” (Agnostic, Maybe) had ereen genuanceerd antwoord op. Paar uitspraken:  It’s not a noble [...]

]]> By: Links of interest: May 20, 2011 « A Modern Hypatia http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4650 Fri, 20 May 2011 19:12:12 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4650 [...] didn’t know they needed or need help using, not so much in how we store materials.) I liked Andy’s take a lot, too. Buffy from The Unquiet Librarian has a great take, [...]

]]> By: Friday Reads – Free Edition « Matt Phillips http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4649 Fri, 20 May 2011 16:24:27 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4649 [...] “Bring Me the Head of Seth Godin!” [...]

]]> By: T Scott http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4647 Fri, 20 May 2011 15:13:49 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4647 To quote from the Janet Doe lecture that I gave at the Medical Library Association conference in Minneapolis this past Monday: “The focus on the part of some librarians to try to figure out how to make “libraries” more relevant for their communities is the single most misguided response to the changes we face that a librarian could make.”

]]> By: stuartspencersmith http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4642 Fri, 20 May 2011 01:00:32 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4642 Phil,

That cannot be true at all. If MOST librarians were forward thinking individuals then their workplace would not be the way it is now. If they were forward thinking individuals, librarians wouldn’t have to argue with people who criticize them as relics from the past because they wouldn’t be relics from the past. It’s not like there is a massive backwards administration in the whole profession that squashes innovation and professional advancement. It’s that the masses on the front lines are mostly like this as well.

As for the IT department- forward thinking librarians should learn how to affect change. If it’s tech knowhow that’s keeping them down an they don’t learn, then I would say that it’s nothing but their own satisfaction with the status quo that’s keeping them down.

]]> By: stuartspencersmith http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4641 Fri, 20 May 2011 00:56:46 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4641 To be innovative you must be open to change and dissent- not to mention outside criticism. Most of the librarians I know are more interested in justifying and defending their profession against any criticism than they are about addressing the criticisms and making change. This is the problem. When one says I would do more, but I can’t- that’s fine and true. However, when masses say “he doesn’t know, he’s not a librarian.” or “oh yeah, well we ARE innovative and the future” but go on with business as usual instead of affecting change, that’s the problem. That’s what I feel most librarians do. If they didn’t, then this wouldn’t even be a conversation.

]]> By: Phil Bradley http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4636 Thu, 19 May 2011 12:44:31 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4636 Sorry, but this is absolute poppycock. Librarians are some of the most forward thinking individuals that I know – not all of course, but *most*. What holds them back from being more innovative is budget restraints, lack of training, lack of time, no support from an IT dept and no understanding from people higher up in the organisation.

]]> By: Seth Godin论图书馆的未来及其讨论 | Nalsi的西文编目笔记III http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4635 Thu, 19 May 2011 12:20:49 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4635 [...] 商榷的意见以Bobbi Newman和Andy Woodworth为代表，她/他们并没有否认Seth的全部观点（实际上它们支持这篇文章的很多观点），但是它们并不认可这篇文章中的一些细节，以及隐藏在这篇文章中的对于当前美国图书馆发展的一些评价——并且它们担心这种错误的刻板印象会误导他的博客的读者。一些主要的批评如次： [...]

]]> By: Michael http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4631 Thu, 19 May 2011 00:07:55 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/bring-me-the-head-of-seth-godin/#comment-4631 Whether or not someone wants praise — and I sure like my fair share — has zip to do with whether they are innovative or not. Speaking for librarians I know all over the country, we do the best we can with what budgets we’ve got. Even in my area, I’d love to do more, but we recently had to really look over an expenditure of $1,395 because it meant taking money away from other initiatives.

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