Comments on: down the drain http://booktruck.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/down-the-drain/ squeaky wheels in the information world Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:02:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Dorothea Salo http://booktruck.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/down-the-drain/#comment-573 Dorothea Salo Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:49:19 +0000 http://booktruck.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/down-the-drain/#comment-573 Thank you for this post. I, too, noticed that the biblioblogosphere has been using satire and even open derision in order to stake its claim to merit on its own terms, rather than futilely trying to engage a man who has repeatedly proven un-engage-able. As another informalist, let me thank you for sticking up for informal registers! Thank you for this post. I, too, noticed that the biblioblogosphere has been using satire and even open derision in order to stake its claim to merit on its own terms, rather than futilely trying to engage a man who has repeatedly proven un-engage-able.

As another informalist, let me thank you for sticking up for informal registers!

]]> By: Mimi http://booktruck.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/down-the-drain/#comment-567 Mimi Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:26:09 +0000 http://booktruck.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/down-the-drain/#comment-567 Eh, I think the "new librarians" could do some self-examination on using rhetoric which serves to broaden discussions instead of narrowing them. Nerd exclusion is some cruel stuff. Eh, I think the “new librarians” could do some self-examination on using rhetoric which serves to broaden discussions instead of narrowing them. Nerd exclusion is some cruel stuff.

]]> By: Keith http://booktruck.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/down-the-drain/#comment-562 Keith Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:50:15 +0000 http://booktruck.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/down-the-drain/#comment-562 I think that is what it really comes down to for 'Ol Doc Gorman: he doesn't like the fact that the kids these days can convey complex information in an informal style. Academia has, for better or worse, developed it's own syntax of obfuscation and rhetorical devices that act as code words. Academics have their own slang. That's how they recognize one another. Gorman's freaked out because the new Librarians talk plain and simple, like everyone else. We're spoiling the mystique of Academia as a select in-crowd and broadening the definition of what scholarship means to include cliques and gangs that old school academics don't like because when they were young, they got made fun of for being nerds. Did no one tell him that the nerds won? I think that is what it really comes down to for ‘Ol Doc Gorman: he doesn’t like the fact that the kids these days can convey complex information in an informal style. Academia has, for better or worse, developed it’s own syntax of obfuscation and rhetorical devices that act as code words. Academics have their own slang. That’s how they recognize one another. Gorman’s freaked out because the new Librarians talk plain and simple, like everyone else. We’re spoiling the mystique of Academia as a select in-crowd and broadening the definition of what scholarship means to include cliques and gangs that old school academics don’t like because when they were young, they got made fun of for being nerds. Did no one tell him that the nerds won?

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