By Herbert S. White
Librarians and libraries now face exceptional demanding situations, hazards, and possibilities. In his newest number of articles and speeches, White makes a speciality of the pro concerns confronting librarians at a time of elevated technological options-when uncomplicated info entry might be simply and without delay performed by way of finish clients, yet within which advanced info entry poses wishes and matters which the tip person won't even realize, not to mention comprehend. usually brought with wit, those insightful and infrequently arguable commentaries are meant to impress critical proposal, dialogue, and finally, motion. A needs to learn for library and data technology execs and useful supplementary examining for college kids of library and data technology.
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ALA has some wonderfully caring individuals, but it is unwilling to set priorities, to decide what is most important and what is either not germane or at least less important. I know that John Berry, my long-time editor at Library Journal, agrees with my contention that ALA does not work hard enough, or perhaps not at all, at promoting the importance of librarians rather than an undefined but presumably good “thing” called the library. A more controversial contention of mine is that all of this stems, at least in great part, from our unwillingness to separate professional issues from sociopolitical ones.
However, we tend to avoid such “unpleasantness,” and seek instead a wishy-washy consensus which will probably neither please or offend anyone, but more importantly resolve little if anything, because dynamic breakthroughs don’t come from consensus. In any case, it began to occur to me, after a few years of modest waiting, that despite my visibility no Nominating Committee would ever select me for anything, because my selection might offend somebody. I am not really sure why I decided to become a petition candidate for the ALA Council 1988–92 term.
Analyses of the American Library Association (ALA) Council tells us that members of round tables are five times as likely to be members of the Council as those who don’t belong. Perhaps it can be argued that those who belong “only” to chapters and divisions do not have as strong a commitment to the specific issues that define round tables. Nor is there anything I can find wrong in that, except perhaps when that is translated into an attempt to speak for a larger group of members. Out of Focus Of course, political activity through Council election is not particularly noticeable for all round tables.
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