Kathy Mitchell-Garton
artist, writer, technology explorer
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FRBR/ARD/FRAD. Are Librarians, Not Seth Godin, The Ones Missing the Point on Libraries? « The Unquiet Librarian. Seth’s Blog: The future of the library via kwout Twitter is lit up today with divergent responses to Seth Godin’s post, “The Future of the Public Library.” I think Godin is spot-on with his thoughts and observations, particularly the idea that libraries “…ought to be the local nerve center for information.” Note he doesn’t see information only in BOOKS, but information in multiple spaces or “containers”, period. Although he isn’t the first to do it, Godin’s call to reconceptualize libraries and his emphasis on the real meaning of “library” as being embedded in the work librarians do is powerful; Godin’s call disrupts the traditional precept of the library as being book-driven.
“The scarce resource is knowledge and insight, not access to data…The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do co-working and coordinate and invent projects worth working on together. “The fundamental shift is from things to human knowledge. Original photo by Buffy J. LISNews: | Trying To Kill Ourselves With Fun. Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog.
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