Posted by susan C on October 27, 2001, at 16:46:12
In reply to Re: P.S., posted by medlib on October 27, 2001, at 15:32:50
Hi, Really? They designated this month just to Medical Librarians????
I seriously considered an MLS...as the people I have been most impressed by were librarians...at one point the public librarian said to me, "we may need to have a limit on the number of questions one person can ask"...like you say, they just can find/figure stuff out...in one of my former 'lives' I was (briefly) a marketing rep for a library automation company. We were at a big, what are they called, conference, in the hall where all the sales people hang out, setting up, (this is in the late 80's) and the son of the lead developer (considered genius) could not COULD not figure out how to get the demo going...now here I am, total bumbling techno no, and I look at it as you quoted your former collegue: It's not necessary to know how something works, or why it's not working now in order to get the job done. Either we can fix it with what we know or can logically infer, or we develop alternatives..I am a 'bottom line' type person, tho I really like your comment about carrier pigeons...anywho, I got it up and running in about a minute...Don't ask me how...
mouse off to look up Aspergerish
susan CHi again--
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> Since my "cover" is blown, and this is Medical Librarians Month, I thought I'd better try to absolve the innocent. Most medical librarians are perfectly capable of finding everything "out there" on a topic without feeling compelled to read any of it. My current obsession with neuropsychopharm is a personal quest by a quirky, Aspergerish personality, *not* a typical professional characteristic. As a former colleague told me (with some exasperation) re multiple ongoing computer problems, "It's not necessary to know how something works, or why it's not working now in order to get the job done. Either we can fix it with what we know or can logically infer, or we develop alternatives." She's a "bottom line" person; I think I suggested carrier pigeons.
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> Well. I lost (a version of) this post and the one I tried to take over to PB re neurotransmitter stuff when Dr. Bob closed the boards to posting last night. Sort of reminds me of the original PB; I had impeccable timing--nearly every time I posted, the board "rolled over" an hour later. (Cyberspace sure ages quickly.)
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> Guess I'll go and try to reconstruct another post. An abashed---medlib
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