Comments on: On Eeyores http://deepening.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/on-eeyores/ 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: Sara http://deepening.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/on-eeyores/#comment-299 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:42:20 +0000 http://deepening.wordpress.com/?p=201#comment-299 For some reason, this reminds me of the book Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley. Rudy, did you and I already talk about this book? If you haven’t read it, check it out or see the website. Instead of this dichotomy between critics and cheerleaders, it offers a broader range of “roles” that contribute to the innovation of a workplace in different ways. Instead of thinking of yourself as an Eeyore, you could see yourself as the Anthropologist — an active, introspective, and – yes, sometimes critical – team player. :-)

]]> By: Mark http://deepening.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/on-eeyores/#comment-297 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:48:32 +0000 http://deepening.wordpress.com/?p=201#comment-297 That post of hers is full of all of the assorted problems that come with dividing people (and the world) into halves, into dichotomies! It doesn’t matter what labels or descriptions one gives their chosen halves; they are wrong! There are people who resemble Tiggers and Eeyores to be sure, but there were more than 2 characters in Milne’s stories (even then, as if Milne described all of human behavior).

I liked how she trotted out that “fake it till you make it” has research support and that if you act happy you’ll end up happy. Right! Because that is my job in life; to be happy; that was what UIUC paid me for.

UIUC (and especially the Library) is so utterly and completely broken. Please do not take it on yourself to fix it. There are far more than 2 kinds of people in the Library just as there are far more than 2 kinds of problems with/in the Library.

I could write pages about these issues and how people like her and there cheerful little divisions of the world are extremely damaging.

But yes, there is a big difference between being negative and providing critique. Part of the problem is with the varied senses of esp. “critical” but also of “critique.”

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