Mary Ellen Bates discusses personality types of librarians and how that affects our service in her “InfoPro” column in EContent.
“Are your clients data-intolerant?”
EContent, Dec 2003 v26 i12 p59(1).
The article is not on the EContent web site yet, but is available through subscription services Expanded Academic ASAP
here
She notes that “almost half of library school students are either ISTJ or INTJ…personality types who handle large amounts of information well” but that 85% of the population have one of the other Myers-Briggs types
that could make them “information-intolerant”
Related posts:
what’s information-intolerant? Are there information biggots? Archie Bunkers on the ref. desk?
Link | December 11th, 2003 at 11:30 am