Imaginary Libraries
I was asked recently to write a response piece to an article written by one of my CMDC colleagues John Barber. John is a Richard Brautigan scholar and has recently proposed creating a digital archive...
View ArticleThe user becomes the collection
(This is a previously unpublished post from my WordPress drafts folder. I’ve cleaned it up and finished some thoughts, but mostly it stands as written in November 2010) The user becomes the collection...
View ArticleArtificial Scarcity: I attempt to identify the root cause of the #HCOD debacle
…the publishing industry has lost its technological monopoly on the flow of information. This means that libraries can no longer identify ourselves as purchasing collectives for containers of...
View ArticleGodin and Gee on the future of libraries and books
This started as one point of a three-point response to Godin’s piece. When I finished with this piece, it seemed to stand on its own and it worked better to put Godin and Gee directly into conversation...
View ArticleMy Silence on Gender Issues in Libraries and Technology
I started writing this post a while ago and shelved it, waiting for more insight. Gender issues, technology, and librarianship is a huge issue. I didn’t want to get something this important wrong, so I...
View ArticleOn allying myself with #TeamHarpy and others
I Am #TeamHarpy I ally myself with Lisa Rabey and nina de jesus. Lisa and nina are friends of mine and colleagues who are facing a SLAPP suit to silence their frank and open discussion of another...
View ArticleFree Primary Sources: dp.la, european.eu, and the Magic of Metadata Harvesters
This post is a summary of a presentation given at the 2015 ILAGO Summit in Hood River, Oregon. DP.LA and Europeana.eu have become my go-to tools for primary source materials. Metadata harvesters (this...
View ArticleTo Criticize, To Hope, and To Library
I’ve been struck by something on library Twitter recently. I doubt that anything has changed, but i seem to be noticing this more and wanted to dig deeper into my response to it. What I’m seeing is a...
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