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November 21, 2007
Vision of the first library - if built today ...
If we were building the first library today, what would that library look like organizationally, what services would we provide, what would we not do, and how would this shape the competencies of the librarians?
(Would they be called librarians? Would it be called a library?)
Posted by dlhodge at November 21, 2007 02:54 PM
Comments
i really liked jane blumenthal's comment about interdisciplinarity, and forming *teams* of subject specialists to meet the needs of these interdisciplinary research projects. i liked it so much i blogged about it: http://somelibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/11/interdisciplinarity-fun-word-to-say.html
Posted by: efrierso at November 24, 2007 11:03 PM
If we were building the first library today, sadly I think it would look much like it did 50, 100 years ago: top-down decision making, isolated units, and a mindset dominated by the will to control and preserve. In short, it would probably look progressively backwards. We would probably continue to privilege technology above literacy instruction, and productivity above creativity. The physical building will remain fixed in its nurturing of wasteful yearnings for familiarity, rather than functionality and energy sustainablity. And this to varying degrees would necessarily affect our perceptions of competences.
Posted by: renny at December 11, 2007 08:51 PM
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