Anonymous Patron writes “Richard Akerman’s Science Library Pad. He says In brief, we have a society that values individual, self-directed action, and often rewards it, over delegation. We have a society that often destroys the trust in delegation. I’m sure everyone has experience working in projects or just in day-to-day life, where you have to spend half your time trying to track down why someone hasn’t done a task they said they would do.
And then after all that, the librarian steps forward to the undergrad, or the grad student, or the researcher and says… trust me, delegate your critical research tasks to me, I am trained to do it better.”
Been there, done that
This is exactly what I’m trying to do at the organization where I work. I’m trying to convince them that I can do more for them than I’m doing now. They are doing things incorrectly, what should be done in two days takes three weeks, or they make people go elsewhere to get what they need.
Money is not at issue here.
Space is not an issue.
Availability of technology is not an issue.
The problem? Office politics, resistance to change, and other personal ‘feelings’ about the subject.