open argument 101
I’ll admit it: there’s almost nothing I like more than drama and action on the internet, and the past 24 hours or so have provided plenty.
Yesterday afternoon saw the release of the much-hyped Library 101 video and its attendant website, which was largely, but not exclusively, lauded. Yesterday evening my FriendFeed brought me the white paper on open source ILS systems [pdf] by SirsiDynix VP of Innovation Stephen Abram, which has been largely, but not exclusively, criticized and ridiculed. (ILS, for my non-librarian readers, stands for Integrated Library System — basically the software that runs your publ...
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lis.dom - October 30, 2009 Author: laura Tags: change the world opacs the biblioblogosphere
Blyberg Speaks: Safe to come out of hiding
Hey kids, it's time for some uncritical me-tooism from the Raccoon. Yesterday, John Blyberg rocked many of our worlds and was able to beautifully articulate what many of us have been thinking and trying to write about, with his post Library 2.0 Debased. (A big huzzah to Kate Sheehan for her inspiration.) I’ve been feeling, for awhile now, that the term Library 2.0 has been co-opted by a growing group of libraries, librarians, and particularly vendors to push an agenda of “change” that deflects attention from some very real issues and concerns without really changing anything. It’s very evident in the profusity of L...
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Tinfoil + Raccoon - January 18, 2008 Author: rochelle, just rochelle Tags: Libraries, tech, and allied interests
Win:win situations, infinite possibilities, and lemonade
I’m trying to avoid uncritical me-tooism (and I’m really trying to stick to my resolve to “Take the high road”), but I do feel the need to link to very recent posts from two libloggers who I respect, frequently disagree with, and have never felt any desire to steamroll or slag. They’re semi-related posts.
Dorothea Salo talks about ‘Infinite Success’ here. I’ll particularly call attention to this paragraph (following some discussion of people who seem to feel the need to be King or Queen of the Hill, which of course means that others have to be less successful):
But what if su...
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Walt at Random - January 12, 2007 Author: walt Tags: Libraries Writing and blogging Speaking
Four Libblog secondary resources
Want to pretend to be ridiculously well read in the biblioglogosphere, WITHOUT wading daily through 200+ feeds in your aggregator? Want to check whether anyone has already blogged about a topic before you blog about it, so it doesn’t look like uncritical me-tooism? Here’s some resources.
Resource One: The Australian Library Blogs page here at librariesinteract.info.
List of blogs from organizations and one from individuals.
You can use the search box to search the content of all blogs listed, not just their titles.
If you are using Firefox2 or IE7, you can click on the “Search Australian blogs” opt...
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librariesinteract.info - January 11, 2007 Author: Kathryn Greenhill Tags: All sectors Useful resources Blogging
Me-too-isms, Social Movements and Libraries
One of my favorite Monty Python skits is the one where German and Greek philosophers are pitted against each other in a soccer match. They all line up for the competition, yet when the whistle blows, instead of kicking the ball they engage in a “philosopher pose” making for a hilarious, yet definitively inactive sports match.
What I take from this satire is that values that may appear wholesome and good in one piece of space and time, looks absolutely ridiculous in another.
In my view, this is the subtext underlying the discussion at Information Wants to Be Free , Tinfoil + Raccoon and other places.
To quote...
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The Other Librarian - January 10, 2007 Author: Ryan Deschamps Tags: rants Trends GTD Ethics Change Management Blog Evaluation
Edit: "Uncritical Me-Tooism"
In response to the lively, honest discussion happening at Information Wants to Be Free about "groupthink" and me-tooism, I'm going to offer an amendment to my politeness post. In my post, I wroteThere are a lot of people blogging about library issues, and I've tried to resist the pull of me-tooism.Here's my amended statement: There are a lot of people blogging about library issues, and I've tried to resist the pull of uncritical me-tooism.
To me, critical doesn't have to mean just pointing out problems. That's part of it. But you can be critical by pointing out the strong points of an idea.&nbs...
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Tinfoil + Raccoon - January 10, 2007 Author: rochelle, just rochelle Tags: Libraries, tech, and allied interests
Trends! Trends! Trends!
At ALA Midwinter in Seattle, once again I will sit up on a panel with a group of people I consider smarter than I am, and bluff my way through a discussion about Top Technology Trends. (It's Sunday, 8–10 a.m. , FAIR Spanish Ballroom, for those who love Sunday morning events.)
But it wouldn't be the same if I didn't solicit trends from YOU, gentle readers... which I generally do by tossing some of my own ideas onto the page and then allowing you to point out all the obvious trends I'm missing or wherever else I've gone astray.
What is a trend, anyway? When I look up the word in Google, I see the term "direction" used f...
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Free Range Librarian - January 10, 2007 Author: kgs@bluehighways.com Tags: Top Tech Trends
