Showing posts with label empathy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label empathy. Show all posts

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.