Comments on: Dancing the dance and avoiding the dancers http://deepening.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/dancing-the-dance-and-avoiding-the-dancers/ thinking about questions of authority, technology, learning, and 2.0 in academic libraries Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:45:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: J http://deepening.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/dancing-the-dance-and-avoiding-the-dancers/#comment-62 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:53:41 +0000 http://deepening.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-62 I think I need to get more tattoos!

You bring up some interesting points here that I’m going to have to ponder. At least we aren’t those carefully guarded places any longer. And I’d say we’re better for the change.

Thanks for a very though-provoking post.

]]> By: Jennie http://deepening.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/dancing-the-dance-and-avoiding-the-dancers/#comment-61 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:49:06 +0000 http://deepening.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-61 “Eviscerate” may work. Not a true match, but similar in effect.

]]> By: rudibrarian http://deepening.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/dancing-the-dance-and-avoiding-the-dancers/#comment-59 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:10:24 +0000 http://deepening.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-59 Colleen — you’re a wordsmith– what’s a gender neutral term for emasculated?

]]> By: rudibrarian http://deepening.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/dancing-the-dance-and-avoiding-the-dancers/#comment-58 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:09:30 +0000 http://deepening.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-58 Alas, the incident so far ended with almost comedic phone sputtering! I could literally get no more than a three word string between interrogative interruptions demanding an answer to the demand. If the first word out was not Yes, the demand was screamed again. Face to face, I might have stood a chance! I need to be able to get my words in to make my case!

It is working its way through the powers that be. Except I think my PTB is waiting to see what ThatChair does. And I’m left wondering how people treat people like that — colleagues like that — fellow faculty like that — (now former) friends like that. Plus pondering the profession and its trajectory and all that.

]]> By: Colleen http://deepening.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/dancing-the-dance-and-avoiding-the-dancers/#comment-57 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:01:52 +0000 http://deepening.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-57 I think it’s a momentary thing. At least, I hope so. I make a regular practice of antagonizing old fogeys, both in the regular faculty and in library admin (the admin at my FPOW), and I generally bully them my way, but they walk out smiling.

If calm, rational conversation doesn’t work, I start slinging acronyms and sounding very snooty about all of my knowledge. Then I waggle my tattoos at them. Finally, I explain that this is my job, and while I’m sure they are very good at their jobs (*snort**choke*), at least once they blow the dust off their syllabi, I *know* I am good at mine.

*sigh* Okay, so I haven’t gotten past the calm rational explanation to crusty professors, with a charming smile. They let me do what I want, pretty much. Perhaps the tattoos intimidate even without waggling?

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