Category Archives: futurelibraries
As We May Evolve
It has been an interesting day. I got to listen to the ARL Executive Director, Elliott Shore, talk this morning at a town hall meeting at my library. And, then I rushed off to hear the President of Rice University … Continue reading
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UX Projects History (at Rice/Fondren Library)
1) Sakai, multi-institutional project (Spring 2009-Spring 2010) Conducted two interview and observation sessions with instructors at Rice (December 2009), in order to understand why and how they use scholarly resources to prepare and conduct their courses. Interviews were not transcribed, … Continue reading
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As We May Evolve, Backstory
Thanks to the wonderful folks over at ACRL; they published my short post today: As We May Evolve. This is the backstory. Last year, in the Spring, I got to take a great History of Science class from Dr. Cyrus … Continue reading
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Preparing for Change
Two weeks ago I facilitated one of the scenarios from ARL. I think a few folks were nervous about these scenarios–and even questioned why we would find value in envisioning the future. But, oh, how it important it is to … Continue reading
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Ethnographic Study in Libraries
Lisa Spiro and I have worked for the last couple of months on an ethnographic study of a new building at Rice, the BioScience Research Collaborative, or BRC. Libraries have been closing branch libraries for years, but this month, Fondren … Continue reading
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Librarian of the future…
Dave Winer (father of the RSS feed), wrote over on Rebooting the News “In the future everyone can be a journalist, and the people who will be most valuable are those who are experts in areas outside journalism. That means, … Continue reading
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Thinking about the Horizon Report 2009
I have to be honest and say that my copy of the Horizon Report has been on my desk for months, and months, and I have just read it. Partly because I knew mostly what was being predicted from conversations … Continue reading
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