Recommendations with Reservations
August 31st, 2006Suggestica got hammered in the comments and on other blogs. Oh well.
Mita (a very cool librarian in Canada) then wrote:
“[W]hen it comes to my next reading selection, I already know what I like to read. What I want a system that will tell me what I should read.”
“Sometimes we should be reading books that challenge the ideas and personal beliefs that we hold dear. Sometimes we should be reading books on topics that don’t interest us much. Sometimes we should be reading books because they will help us understand other books. And sometimes we should be reading works because our professor has assigned them for us to read.”
It may make us feel funky, but I believe that we learn more when we are uncomfortable. That’s why I watch FOX and not CNN. I already know why I have certain political beliefs and I need to understand the other side of the same issues.
Mita is dead-on with her post.