Who and why?

Why do I write this, and who do I write it for? Those are questions that occur to me once in a while, as I suspect they do for many bloggers. I suppose I write it because I like writing about what I do, and would like more people to know something about what I do. If I didn't like doing it I could never keep it up.

As to who I write it for, I think that has to be for anyone I might cross paths with in the course of doing my job. Students, lecturers, and other staff at the Uni mostly, but also other librarians, visitors or people who get lost and wander in by mistake.

That happens in real life too. Mostly they ask where the way out is.

Enforcing civility

Sometimes I go to blog about something and find that I don't need to, all I need to do is point to someone else's blog entry that says it all.

Wikipedia again

Wikipedia makes the news again in this article in the Times.

I thought the days of the 'information superhighway' silliness, when people predicted that the internet was going to replace all the libraries and be the answer to everything, had been left behind back in the 1990's. Apparantly not. It's doesn't help that the other camp seem equally keen to say that everything web based is rubbish and should be banned.

Surprisingly enough the internet is just like anything else, a mix of the good, the slightly dodgy and the downright bad. Education, surely, ought to prepare people to tell the difference.