Smart People Got No Reason
Why smart people defend bad ideas - scottberkun.com could be subtitled: how to work with librarians and libraries. The number of smart people who succumb to group thinking in library work is amazing. Plus, I continue to argue with folks who are defending bad ideas and have been defending those same ideas and practices for decades, so they are darn good at it with so much practice.
Now that I have been at a library for ten years, I do find myself getting defensive about some of our quirky policies that I know the background of. I have to take a step back and try to see things afresh. But it is hard! So I get the defensiveness, but I don't understand those who refuse to even attempt to see it from a new perspective. I am sure my staff could list many Weird Things That Tasha Insists Upon, but we won't ask them, will we?