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Newspapers are dead, long live libraries
I’ve been thinking recently about what libraries look like when they’re about information retrieval and dissemination rather than information storage. Public libraries already do a fair bit of this,...
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The front line is everywhere
In my previous post post I finished by writing that librarians need to become more pro-active. Today’s post attempts to expand on how we might go about this and why it is needed. The Gatekeeper on the...
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Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf and the Australian publishing industry
A couple of weeks ago I attended Book Camp Australia, an unconference held at the Wheeler Centre as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival and put together by if:book – the Institute for the future of...
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Evolution, the death of librarians and the end of history
Today aspiring book restoration librarian @hanmunn alerted me to a back and forth in the LA Times about libraries, librarians and whether one can survive without the other. These two opinion pieces...
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Blogs and the post-paper library
My title this week is a little provocative. I’m unconvinced of the imminent, or even eventual, complete death of all ‘dead tree’ publishing. Much, however, will move to electronic and just as we in...
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Dear CEOs and senior managers, it’s no longer ok not to know how Social Media...
Imagine if Canadian library managers decided not only that they were uninterested in hiring French-speaking staff, but actually banned their staff from speaking French, making signage in French or...
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Mission creep – a 3D printer will not save your library
So you think your library needs a 3D printer. You’re going to be modern, ahead of the curve, futuristic, not-your-mother’s-library. Congratulations. But why exactly is it appropriate for a library...
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Technolust – the fifth column of the information counter-revolution
I’m going to start with a story about growing up in Tasmania in the 1990s. The economy wasn’t great, with unemployment at around 11%, no economic growth to speak of and a high State debt. In these...
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