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[owlectomy]

Happy fun times: answering ref questions on my smartphone because all the computers are offline.

Curse you, tiny keyboard and slow slow internet!

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[laughingrat]

We get competent Googlers who still approach us for help because hey, we're the professionals! :)

[jesse_the_k]

And besides, you have THE WORLD'S MOST PERFECT ICON! Seriously, print up some of those and you could mint money at the ALA.

[laughingrat]

I *should* go to ALA, to subvertinate. *is a ninja* I think Iconomicon made the icon, alas. But isn't it FAB?

[owlectomy]

Sadly, we don't get the same results here; 2/3 of the librarians I work with aren't even competent Googlers.

[laughingrat]

Daaaaamn. 0_o

[owlectomy]

Yes, that IS the curse word I use when I'm the one who has to run off GED applications and tax forms because I'm the one who knows how to find them on the web!

[laughingrat]

That is...not okay. Wow. I mean, by the standards of, say, Sedge, I would not be a competent Googler (not that she'd ever say it, because she is delightful, but she also has Mad Gugl Skillz), but criminy, I can find tax forms.

[jesse_the_k]

Holy moly! That really surprises me. I assumed you've had electronic catalogs for a decade or so; wouldn't learning how to Google just follow on from a) surrounded by terminals and b) interested in stuff with culture on them?

[owlectomy]

Isn't it pretty to think so?