Re: RE: TV Turn-Off  HIRSCH Bonnie C ( Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:48:36
-0800 (PST)  This entry is offered in the spirit of mediation,
not criticism. You know, if you academic media librarians met
our youth librarians before this discussion, you would probably
like each other a lot and find many ideas in common. And it
seems to me that you may have some blinders on about this
particular issue, assuming that all public librarians have the
same narrow view of TV turn-off as the woman who posted the
first inquiry. I hope you can accept that most librarians are
intelligent, thoughtful people who are interested in encouraging
other people to be thoughtful about the ways they use their
time. Now I am making an assumption about academic librarians
when I suggest that you are dealing with a sub-set of the
population which is more oriented toward learning and active
thinking. Granted that the population which uses the public
libary is a similar sub-set, but children who fall in that sub-
set sometimes need encouragement and re