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From: Cynthia Davis Buffington <cynthy(a)prbm.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 19:58:02 -0400
I am posting this "thought for Friday" and the weekend for, as Ev
says, "a list member who is having technical difficulties":
"Librarians are there:
To help, aid, assist. To teach, collate, enthuse. To catalogue,
index, arrange, organise. To find, discover, promote, display.To
interest, intrigue, amuse and amaze. To instill wonder. To help
children, adults, old people, the underprivileged, the rich, the poor,
those with voices and those without. To protect resources, to archive
them, to store them, to save them for the future. To provide differing
viewpoints, to engender thought, conversation, research, fun. To
provide the best answer possible, to match the answer to the enquirer,
to provide just enough information without overwhelming the user, but
enough to always help. To better a local community, a company, a
school, a college, an organisation, a country, the world.
Google is there:
To make money."
From:
<http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2011/06/what-librarians-google-are-for.html>
Cynthy!
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