Andrew wrote: > > (and perhaps that librarians are a bit slow to upgrade ;) >
And then tee wrote: > > I think it's more to do with the fact that librarians are always getting > hand-me-down hardware :) That is indeed often the case. And it's not only that. If given a choice of buying 3 or 4 new books for the researchers and clinicians, or buying library staff a shiny new computer when the one they have can clunk along just fine for another year ... well, it's a simple choice. Budgetry constraints hit libraries hard. And while I'm here, I'll point out that librarians happen to be quite early adopters of new technologies and web trends, and have been since the days of ARPANET. Libraries have been quick to embrace all kinds of services (Facebook, Twitter, SMS) to push information out to and connect with their patrons. It's thanks to advice from librarians that, from the time I put my hand up and told my boss "yea, I can make you a website", and then wonderened how the heck to do it, I headed down the Web Standards path. They're generelly pretty technologically aware, and do the best with what they have. dan. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************