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| | Free Range Librarian: January 2005 Archives |
 | | Part of the excitement about new information services, such as blogging, is that blogs directly and indirectly work to cross that bridge, both with the type of content they can provide--reflecting, commenting, correcting, and augmenting the MSM, as well as through their own reportageâ”and through their collective poke in the back to traditional journalism. |
 | | My guess is most of you either route around the sillier parts of ALA by participating in divisions that meet your personal or professional needs (e.g., by joining LITA, which has terrific interest groups in every imaginable tech-related area, an excellent annual Forum, and great collegiality), or by ignoring ALA altogether. |
 | | I suspect the real difference between the "Nextgen" librarians and us old codgers is that the young'uns are much less interested in ALA's head games and can find other means of interacting without donning bustles and sleeve garters, and if I'm right, those demographics will come home to roost in the next decade. |
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