OK this is my first post on here in a while since we didn't have class the week before last due to FastTrack weekend. Of all the readings for this week, I found the one by Papy (Chapter 1 of Digital Libraries) to be the most interesting. Particularly, the passage "the average yuser looks for one answer, not all possible answers. The librarian's obsession with delivering all possible answers is a surplus in quality that is not appreciated by the user". Furthermore, Papy goes on to add that "(librarians) no longer play the role of the mediator between the user and the system". This goes to the heart of the debate on not only what a digital library is, but how users interact within a library context and how librarians respond to that. Our profession likes to think that librarians will be needed in the future to help customers get the correct information for whatever they're looking for, but the way that this will be done has to change in accordance with the above.
I'd also like to add that I enjoyed watching everyone's presentation proposals. I think it's interesting that groups will work on everything from digitizing movie posters to digitizing files for an Eskimo language.
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