Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Minds, Reading

Beware of fellow librarians who claim to have an omniscient understanding of how patrons think.  This ability to empathize with their users can cause these librarians to overlook the fact that they sound like condescending gas bags when sharing their "knowledge" of a patron's point of view.

6 comments:

Gwen said...

Awesome.

Roxanne said...

So very true.

loudlibrarian said...

Amen

smiff said...

You obviously don't know how to read minds and you're jealous.

Mortimer said...

I knew you were going to say that!!

Libyrinth said...

Mind Reading Powers ACTIVATED.... uh... it didn't work...