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different information skills and strengths

Submitted by Anonymous (guest) on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 7:46am.

Combining the Library with the Computing Department has been a disaster,
particularly for the people who work in the Computing department. This is
not a bad reflection on the librarians or on our wonderful computing
staff, it is merely that the two departments have very different
"information" skills and strengths. While librarians are excellent at
assisting professors and students in researching data bases, they are not
excellent (and there is no reason why they should be) in technological
areas such as software programs, website development, desktop support and
hardware maintenance, etc. Computing should be its own department as it
was before everything from telephones, multimedia in the classrooms, our
teaching collection, and our computing center were all connected.

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