The Future Ain't What It Used to Be

I subscribe to a couple of listservs intended for newer librarians and library school students, and it's sometimes depressing to see some of their posts. Today there was a post on nextgenlib-l tearing apart the "Ten Things Google Has Found to Be True." It's basically an attack on Google because it makes money, provides information quickly, and is governed by how people use it. Another post in the same digest rails against libraries trying to learn anything from the private sector about customer service. Depressing.

It's almost funny to read these lists, because a lot of the posts focus on kvetching that older librarians with their old fashioned ideas (like me, I guess) won't get out of the way and allow the younger generation to lead us right back to the 1950s. *sigh*