US Library Education Worldwide in Crisis and the Problem with Blogers
Anything written or said by Michael Gorman, in any context, is usually worthy of note. A recent piece of his in Vol. 105 No. 1204/1205 2004 of New Library World was no exception. It is entitled "Whither Library Education?" The piece posits that there is a crisis in library education worldwide. The major problem as he sees it is that library schools have become hosts to information science and information studies, faculty and curricula. He sees this development as being "at best peripheral... at worst inimical" to educcation for professional library work. He also cites a gender divide in which information science professors are men and traditional library studies professors are women, there being a hierarchy of the first over the second. He sees that many library educators concentrate on technology to a degree that they dismiss anything that is not amenable to a technological solution. He calls for a national curriculum that would apply to all schools in a counrty.
P.S. This is my first entry in my Blog, and I must apologize to Michael Gorman right off the bat.
He is without doubt one of the greatest intellects working, writing, and thinking in the area of libraries, books and information. However, he is no friend of Blogs. In his Feb. 2005 article in Library Journal, entitled "Revenge of the Blog People! Cut to the chase -- he is agin 'em. His stance on the Googlizing of information as a replacement for the book sort, evidently drew many naysayers. Some of his remarks are classics and deserve wider distribution than Library Lournal in the article he states, "The Google phenomenon is a wonderfully modern manifestation of the triumph of hope and boosterism over reality." The Blogers took exception to his ideea that scholarly books should be read in real reality from an object containing paper, rather than in virtual reality off a screen.
I encourage everyone interested in information, books and libraries to read his "Backtalk" article in the February 15, 2005 issue of Library Journal, page 44.
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