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	<title>Comments on: Call for Information Professionals to Take Charge</title>
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		<title>By: satansparakeet</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mostly agree, particularly where you say &quot;We must demonstrate the need, the problems caused by not meeting that need and why we are in the best position to meet the need.&quot;  The problem is that people seldom understand that the searches they are doing are ineffective and that makes it quite difficult to &quot;demonstrate the need.&quot;  In fact, most of the time ineffective searches are more than sufficient.  If I want to know the population of Kentucky or the GDP of Iran, I can type those phrases into Google and get immediate answers without knowing anything about forming effective searches.

The trick is getting people to understand that searches for complex information require another level of search expertise that they may not have.  It&#039;s somewhat easier to do that when you are in a corporate environment with a captive audience that you interact with on a regular basis, but it&#039;s much more difficult in public libraries and large universities.  I&#039;d like to see more libraries put up examples (on websites or handouts or whatever other marketing materials are convenient) of the kind of information they can deliver and compare it to a Google search to show the difference.  I think most people believe they are good at search because it is now something almost everyone does every day.  It&#039;s going to be difficult to break people out of that mindset.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I mostly agree, particularly where you say &#8220;We must demonstrate the need, the problems caused by not meeting that need and why we are in the best position to meet the need.&#8221;  The problem is that people seldom understand that the searches they are doing are ineffective and that makes it quite difficult to &#8220;demonstrate the need.&#8221;  In fact, most of the time ineffective searches are more than sufficient.  If I want to know the population of Kentucky or the GDP of Iran, I can type those phrases into Google and get immediate answers without knowing anything about forming effective searches.</p>
<p>The trick is getting people to understand that searches for complex information require another level of search expertise that they may not have.  It&#8217;s somewhat easier to do that when you are in a corporate environment with a captive audience that you interact with on a regular basis, but it&#8217;s much more difficult in public libraries and large universities.  I&#8217;d like to see more libraries put up examples (on websites or handouts or whatever other marketing materials are convenient) of the kind of information they can deliver and compare it to a Google search to show the difference.  I think most people believe they are good at search because it is now something almost everyone does every day.  It&#8217;s going to be difficult to break people out of that mindset.</p>
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