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Monday, 12 April 2010 10:01 Phil

My old colleague Jon Whipple posted about some library-madness that's been going around.

I couldn't describe the problem better than he can so here's his post.

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Yeah. The problem is, is that we get into a kind of "all or nothing" debate within the profession. If we fight against the book-brand we end up being labelled as book haters. It's an uphill battle, that's for sure.
Is it any wonder that our profession continues to struggle under the stereotype? How about OCLC's study and subsequent assertion that because the world identifies libraries with the "book" that this is the brand that we should continue to use as a symbol for what we do....ugh.

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