Comments on: Remixing the library http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:45:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Loose Cannon Librarian » Going local in the Library http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-123048 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:15:25 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-123048 [...] Is library way out on periphery? Is that bad? Long Tail says being outlier is okay. But some want to be the center of it all and can do it. John Udell’s remixing the library. [...]

]]> By: Ann Arbor’s public library is a beacon of progress « Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-122806 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:02:06 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-122806 [...] the way for this kind of productive teamwork. It’s not a natural reflex, as Cassandra Targett points out: It’s a shift from being passive recipients of the world’s knowledge to active [...]

]]> By: The Distant Librarian http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-70720 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:41:28 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-70720 Jon Udell on remixing the library

]]> By: engtech http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-69110 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:34:29 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-69110 I wish more libraries would implement features found in http://libraryelf.com

I originally rolled my own library scraper to give me email updates, but now I’ve been using library elf for two years.

]]> By: Science Library Pad http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-68575 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:54:26 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-68575 remix global research for a global civilisation: GRL 2020

Stuart Weibel has a detailed writeup summarising Global Research Library 2020: GRL-2020: advocacy for a digital civilization of the future?The phrase I liked the most in these discussions is advocacy for the digital civilization of the future (Peter Yo…

]]> By: Cassandra Targett http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-68494 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:09:46 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library/#comment-68494 Hi Jon,

Your paper helped crystallize an idea that’s been slowly dawning on me recently: One of the big challenges facing my fellow librarians is that the central tenet of our role is changing from being the caretakers of the information repository to being designers of the content going into that repository. For the last couple hundred years librarians could follow prescribed rules to provide world-class access to the latest scientific and philosophic breakthroughs without actually being top scientists or philosophers. It’s a shift from being passive recipients of the world’s knowledge to active participants in its creation, a shift that in many ways goes against some of the deepest core principles of what has become library science.

The traditional packages (book, journal) are only a few of the many ways knowledge is available now – some of the most compelling work in certain fields is comparatively unpackaged and uncontrolled. For a profession steeped in the idea that our role is to describe packaged knowledge and then help people find it (and play no role in how they use it once we point the way to it), the idea that we can not only modify some types of packages or even create substantially new ones is quite foreign still. I don’t think we suddenly need to become biologists or criminologists to work with data specific to those fields, and especially not to design how it can be used, but there are some important conceptual hurdles to get over before we can really get going with it (i.e., we’re still trying to figure out how to get all the online journals we subscribe to into that OPAC thing no one can actually use…).

- Cassandra

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