Librarianship
The Art of Songwriting, a webliography
Snakeoil peddlers, with very little authority on the subject, have taken advantage of the common fantasies many people have of becoming a rockstar, as is evident in the plethora of books on how to write hit songs. As a result, quality instruction, advice, and guidance for aspiring songwriters is not easy to find. To compound [...]
Trusted Digital Repositories & Certification: An Early Map for Exploration
Most information professionals know that time moves quickly in the digital realm. Even our most valuable digital heritage becomes more ephemeral every year. In fact, some point to our current era as a potential dark age, unknown to future generations for a lack of artifacts about what we knew, who we were, and where we [...]
CivicSquared
My friend, Kevin Fricovsky, and I entered the Knight News Challenge. The projects they fund are those with a focus “on neighborhood and community-focused projects, services, and programs”. Our project is called CivicSquared, and here’s a PDF document which explains all the nitty-gritty details, since we had to post the abridged version to the site. [...]
On Digital Library Services
Many library services that were once separated into technical and user categories are converging in digital environments (Pomerantz, 2008). Furthermore, new service opportunities are emerging, and we can now see, as has been argued, that all services are user services. We should explore in-depth the endless service opportunities digital libraries offer.
Self-service is incredibly appealing to [...]
Libraries and the Business of Information
What a relief it was to read the Lyman Ross et. al. article, The Library is Dead, Long Live the Library! Though their outlook is less optimistic than my own, I’ve been expressing many of their concerns myself over the past few years to friends and colleagues. The authors seem frustrated as they run up [...]
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