Re: New Online Social Network: BioMedExperts

>>Yes, if this proves successful, I think similar
things could be 
>>created for other disciplines.

>and another set of nails on the coffins of libraries.


If something like that is a set of nails on the coffins of
libraries,
then libraries deserve to die out.

We need to quit thinking of these things as challenges to
our domain,
and start looking at other ways that we can be useful. 
Adaptation and
change will be the norm from now on.

Jesse Ephraim

Youth Services Librarian
Southlake Public Library
1400 Main Street, Suite 130
Southlake, TX  76092
(817) 748-8248
jephraimci.southlake.tx.us


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Friday, January 18, 2008, 11:20:04 AM, you wrote:

> We need to quit thinking of these things as challenges
to our domain,
> and start looking at other ways that we can be useful. 
Adaptation and
> change will be the norm from now on.

Correct.  But in fact adaptation and change are what have
kept
libraries going this long.  No more clay tablets, no more
chained
books, and so forth.  We have also evolved to add things
like
microforms, videos, computers, and on and on.  Had we stuck
to chained
books, or even "just print media" we would have
been nearly dead
already.

dan

-- 
The road goes on forever and the party never ends. REK, Jr.

Dan Lester, Boise, ID  

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  Jesse Ephraim writes

> We need to quit thinking of these things as challenges
to our
> domain,
 
  Tell me, if all biomedical scientists were to use 
  biomedexperts, why would the US government still fund
PubMed?

> Adaptation and change will be the norm from now on.
 
  Go and tell that to the NLM. I am not sure they will
obey,
  but it's worth a try.


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/ho
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