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Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration

If you haven’t heard about it yet, check out the upcoming Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration workshop organized by the folks at RLG Programs/OCLC Research on the topic of library, archive and museum collaboration. There will be a two day event in Washington, D.C. hosted by the Smithsonian, but you can also sign up [...]

Reports of the Web’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

In tech circles, there has been a lot of sturm und drang this past week over Wired’s cover article, The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet. It’s an interesting and provocative title, but like many technology pundits before it (and Wired itself, it must be noted), Wired has fallen into the trap of declaring something as so simply to get the scoop. The problem here is that the so in this case, the death of the World Wide Web, is so premature – if it happens at all – as to be laughable.

The New Academic Year is Upon Us…

And here, via Inside Higher Education, under the headline “What Your Frosh Don’t Know” is Beloit College’s annual “mindset” list. Forty-somethings, read it and weep.

Smartphones r us

Whatever we’re doing with smartphones, we aren’t doing enough. We finally have a ubiquitous computing device that everyone seems to have, and seems to use as functional extensions of the brain and fingers.

Do you have the skills you need?

I’m teaching an online course in the convergence of archives, libraries, and museums this summer for Johns Hopkins University and it has been such a good experience.  The students are terrific and engaged and full of ideas.  Last week we all read (or reread for some of us) the 2009 IMLS Report “Museum, Libraries, and [...]

Anthologize

For the past week a group of hackers have been feverishly working on a top secret new project in a government-funded lab in the outskirts of Washington, D.C.   While this might sound like a great opening to a new Dan Brown thriller, it’s actually a description of the One Week | One Tool project [...]