tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25995521.comments2008-10-15T12:00:32.243-04:00The Evidence-based LibrarianCarol Perrymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11320101490854485909noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25995521.post-50945118895243724402008-10-15T11:56:00.000-04:002008-10-15T11:56:00.000-04:00I can remember taking some of the first distance ...I can remember taking some of the first distance learning classes circa 1998 at SUNY and many people had similar reactions to this too way back when, and many still do in our profession, as strange at that may sound, so I'm learning too it is a lot to do with keeping it all in some perspective at times, which I know only too well is very frustrating to deal with many times but it still exists very much so. We know what land mines our in the field so we have to learn to walk past them. :-)<BR/>Best, KarenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25995521.post-2281608441812453792008-10-14T21:47:00.000-04:002008-10-14T21:47:00.000-04:00Hi Karen, I recognize your name, and welcome! I h...Hi Karen, I recognize your name, and welcome! I hope you're right. I appreciate comments you have made. <BR/><BR/>In a discipline whose research is perhaps best mixed-method, with much owed to sociology, communication, education, and other fields of study, it really does astonish me that we can read and value Chatman's 'Life in the Round,' find space for Rosaldo's ethnography, - and (apparently) close the door on spaces like Second Life. I'm not doing what I think of as 'big R' research right now in SL - too much else on my plate! - but I do feel as if we are laying experiential groundwork in a number of ways. One of them is simply by connecting there, even just across library types. The setting is there for new discourses - and they are happening!Carol Perrymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11320101490854485909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25995521.post-25794259963653018262008-10-14T21:19:00.000-04:002008-10-14T21:19:00.000-04:00Hi Carol, I was exploring HealthInfoIsland page an...Hi Carol, I was exploring HealthInfoIsland page and found your blog...you are not alone in your frustrations with many things in the profession, and as a former doctoral student I know how you feel about many of the same issues. Hopefully a new generation can bring new changes ahead. nice blog btw!, KarenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com