Bernie Sloan posted, without comment, three Library Journal links to the Web4Lib list: Is This “Gormangate”? ALA President-Elect Draws Fire, The Power of Blogs, and Feedback, from the April 1, 2005 issue.

Whatever one surmises about Michael Gorman’s stance on technology in libraries and about librarians use of technology, he has certainly brought the ALA, libraries, and librarians into the consciousness of many who may never have thought about librarians and technology. You have to be controversial and stir things up if you want people to take notice. In Is This “Gormangate”? ALA President-Elect Draws Fire, Andrew Albanese mentions that there were over 1000 responses to the subject on Slashdot—not a librarian Web site, but a geek Web site. I believe that is good for us. I don’t think Gorman has done us any harm. We need people who can get attention from outside our world of librarianship. We need to be in the consciousness of a lot of people if libraries are going to survive the Internet. A lot more people know that librarians blog. Isn’t that progress?

I have enjoyed reading books written by Gorman, such as Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century, and Our Singular Strengths: Meditations for Librarians.