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vermontitguy t1_j7sk47m wrote

You may be right about physical books, but not about libraries and librarians. Students don't intuitively know how access scholarly databases and do research. Librarians provide guidance on doing academic research and libraries are where that happens. If you think local public libraries are an adequate substitute for a college campus library, you're clueless. For one thing, they're unlikely to have pertinent resources for the subject matter taught at the college. They're also often far from campus and, more importantly, their hours are extremely limited and unlikely to be open evenings and weekends when students need them most.

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BobDope t1_j7stgyc wrote

ChatGPT (with its fake citations!) will only make this worse

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vtdadbod007 OP t1_j7skjbw wrote

Would you mind sending me a university library website that I can search through? I can have whatever you want me to find in 10 minutes.

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vermontitguy t1_j7slr6q wrote

Who do you think creates and maintains university websites?

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memorytheatre t1_j7t8i17 wrote

I guarantee you. Not by librarians.

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vermontitguy t1_j7u6nqp wrote

I worked in IT for a dozen years at two small Vermont colleges. I don't accept your guarantee. At both colleges, the librarians were deeply involved in the maintenance of and responsibility for the library websites. They worked collaboratively with IT for the technical aspects, but had full authority over the content.

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Twombls t1_j7ub6xu wrote

You do know that the organizing structure of a library is a science and people go to school for it right? They spend countless hours categorizing and sorting through internal materials so they have a library that makes sense. Even digitally.

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random_vermonter t1_j7x9vqr wrote

You're just like the OP. Another clueless twit pretending to be an expert on something they know little about.

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vtdadbod007 OP t1_j7snaaq wrote

Ours are done by students on work study, computer code, and recently some AI

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vermontitguy t1_j7sp2v2 wrote

Is your school even accredited?

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thegalwayseoige t1_j7woyx1 wrote

…did you just ask if Northeastern was accredited ?

They accepted something like 400 people out of 90,000 applicants for their undergrad this year. It’s one of the best schools on the planet.

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vermontitguy t1_j7wrgka wrote

Dude, the OP said "ours [library websites] are [created and maintained] by students on work study, computer code, and recently some AI." Without knowing where the OP went to school, I asked if it was accredited based on his clearly inaccurate assertion about who manages the library web content. I have no doubt Northeastern is accredited and their library is above reproach. I'll bet the lives of my children that their website is not managed by work study students.

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thegalwayseoige t1_j7wrld1 wrote

They said Northeastern in the post

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vermontitguy t1_j7wwg4a wrote

So they did. I must've blown past it. They also said, "we’ve never had books in our library (or any other public spaces) since I’ve been here." But the web site says, "Resources include close to 500,000 print volumes." I'll take your word that the university accepts 400 out of 90,000, but the OP is really one in a million.

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vtdadbod007 OP t1_j7sp9yw wrote

We’re a top 50 school nationally lmao

US News page on Northeastern University

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Lee__Jieun t1_j7sscqi wrote

So what do all these librarians do then?

https://library.northeastern.edu/administration/library-staff-directory/

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vtdadbod007 OP t1_j7ssk7g wrote

Teach the students and help build the code and AI that maintains the library. I know a few of those have relationships with google where a few friends have gone to work right out of college.

Edit to clarify: Everyone on that list is involved with research projects in some form, teaches in some form, or involved with another association or company.

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Twombls t1_j7vttqr wrote

In other comments you talk about how you are smart enough to do your own research therfore librarians aren't needed. yet you cant find the library portal for your own college.

🤔

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