The Emerging Leaders 2007 project wiki I've been working on since January of this year is finally ready for roll-out. Tech_Casting represents my project group's approach to the question, "what technologies will most affect libraries in the next 5 years?": Although the wiki doesn't precisely answer this question, it does provide a media-rich collaborative platform... Continue Reading →
the great user debate
Saw a post on O'Reilly Radar today about something that has always bothered me a bit about working libraries - which is the lesser of three semantic evils: "user", "customer", or "patron"? According to Jimmy Guterman, "as has often been noted, there are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: high tech... Continue Reading →
maiden voyage.
I thought for my first post that I would explain to my current audience of slim-to-none why I've resisted setting up a personal blog for what feels like ages. Although I've contributed to a communications subject blog for a while now, my hesitation was equal parts not having internet in the house (which is still... Continue Reading →