Jill: Maureen, come here. I want your help with something.
:: we walk out to quiet journals browsing area ::
Jill: So here’s what I’m thinking. We clear out all of these shelves of journals — they’re all being discontinued anyway because we have electronic access** — and then we set up a huge screen and a projector and patrons can play video games about public health!
Maureen: Jill, there are no such things as video games about public health
Jill: Sure there are. You can set up an outbreak on the Sims, or the wii fit…
Maureen: People do serious work here. Do you think someone studying for comps is going to appreciate the asshole in the corner learning about his wii fit age?
Jill: I work SO HARD to justify our existence! If we don’t do programming, we’re just another study space!
Maureen (rolling eyes): Fine, I’ll write the proposal for you.
** this is a really bad idea for a lot of reasons, the least of which is that archivists DO NOT have digital preservation figured out and it seems like a bad idea to leave it to the publishers.
