Comments on: Survey on Library Professional Perceptions http://dltj.org/article/perceptions-survey/ We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore Wed, 23 May 2012 16:01:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: niraj t.khobragadehttp://dltj.org/article/perceptions-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-76407 niraj t.khobragade Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:07:37 +0000 http://dltj.org/2007/04/perceptions-survey/#comment-76407 not happy not happy

]]> By: the jesterhttp://dltj.org/article/perceptions-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-14790 the jester Mon, 07 May 2007 16:04:20 +0000 http://dltj.org/2007/04/perceptions-survey/#comment-14790 I think it is a little bit of both, and the survey will ferret that out. It asks not only about others perceptions of librarians, but librarians' perceptions about themselves. Public librarians, for instance, continue to shatter my stereotyping of them as "not with it" -- I can't remember if the survey provided a way to break down along those demographic lines, but the results could be interesting.Then there are those that don't seem to be doing the right things anymore. A colleague had a phrase for that -- "Change, one funeral at a time." I think it is a little bit of both, and the survey will ferret that out. It asks not only about others perceptions of librarians, but librarians’ perceptions about themselves. Public librarians, for instance, continue to shatter my stereotyping of them as “not with it” — I can’t remember if the survey provided a way to break down along those demographic lines, but the results could be interesting.

Then there are those that don’t seem to be doing the right things anymore. A colleague had a phrase for that — “Change, one funeral at a time.”

]]> By: Jonathan Rochkindhttp://dltj.org/article/perceptions-survey/comment-page-1/#comment-14787 Jonathan Rochkind Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:13 +0000 http://dltj.org/2007/04/perceptions-survey/#comment-14787 Is it a problem in _marketing_ what we're doing, or is it a problem in _what we're doing_? Are we doing what we should be in the first place? I couldn't really answer that survey, because I'm not sure we are.A marketing problem is when people don't realize what we're doing. Not if they correctly realize what we're doing/not doing, but we wish we were doing something different. That's not a marketing problem. Is it a problem in _marketing_ what we’re doing, or is it a problem in
_what we’re doing_? Are we doing what we should be in the first place? I couldn’t really answer that survey, because I’m not sure we are.

A marketing problem is when people don’t realize what we’re doing. Not if they correctly realize what we’re doing/not doing, but we wish we were doing something different. That’s not a marketing problem.

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