Christina's LIS Rant
Thursday, December 08, 2005
The Chronicle: 12/9/2005: Information Anarchy or Information Utopia?
Article by James G. Neal (not sure if it's only to subscribers?)
"We will be legacy, responsible for centuries of societal needs and records in all formats. We will be infrastructure, the essential combination of space, technology, systems, and expertise that define our excellence. We will be repository, guaranteeing the long-term availability and usability of our intellectual and cultural output. We will be portal, serving as a sophisticated and intelligent gateway to expanding interactive multimedia content and tools. And we will be enterprise, more concerned with innovation, business planning, competition, and risk." ¶ 4:59 PM| |cites (technorati) |
"We will be legacy, responsible for centuries of societal needs and records in all formats. We will be infrastructure, the essential combination of space, technology, systems, and expertise that define our excellence. We will be repository, guaranteeing the long-term availability and usability of our intellectual and cultural output. We will be portal, serving as a sophisticated and intelligent gateway to expanding interactive multimedia content and tools. And we will be enterprise, more concerned with innovation, business planning, competition, and risk." ¶ 4:59 PM| |cites (technorati) |
Comments:
Hi
Congratulations. We seem to be in similar boats.
This item is relevant to the book I just reviewed: as Infostructure in geopardy?, February 28, 2006, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, by Siva Vaidhyanathan
More on hearing from you.
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Congratulations. We seem to be in similar boats.
This item is relevant to the book I just reviewed: as Infostructure in geopardy?, February 28, 2006, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, by Siva Vaidhyanathan
More on hearing from you.
