tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249867.post8236350660664000088..comments2023-06-18T23:28:28.840+10:00Comments on ShelterIt - My digital think-tank: Do libraries understand the future? Or how to get there?Alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10613480150660825848noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249867.post-64327227943427634962010-04-13T05:31:39.877+10:002010-04-13T05:31:39.877+10:00Your post and danielh's were thought-provoking...Your post and danielh's were thought-provoking. While I want to defend the current library infrastructure, I will save that to comment on library philosophy. I believe there is a current library philosophy that is agreed to by almost all librarians. The problem is that this philosophy is based on 19th century models, or at the latest, pre-1960.<br /><br />Those "giant" librarians: Panizzi, Cutter, Jewett, Dewey, Ranganathan, up to Lubetzky in the 1960s or early 1970s, and there haven't really been any people of their stature since then. Certainly not since the WWW. Librarians have no equivalent of a Steve Jobs or a Tim Berners-Lee, or a Richard Stallman. <br /><br />As a result, librarians have icons from the time of the pre-web. There is a part of me that thinks that there must be a general catastrophe before librarians finally realize that they are facing deep and fundamental changes.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08040222154847647955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249867.post-5176787396859586512010-04-12T13:10:44.821+10:002010-04-12T13:10:44.821+10:00Hey Alex, interesting thoughts.
Do you think the ...Hey Alex, interesting thoughts.<br /><br />Do you think the philosophy of librarianship has changed, or that there needs to be a rallying manifesto like approach? Where is the lean library manifesto? To me at least the notion of a group dedicated to applying intelligence to curate, synthesise and disseminate knowledge and how to acquire knowledge for societies benefit is the same as it always was.<br /><br />I think the problem of getting to the future is more of a practical one. Innovation and schumpeterian creative destruction to rebuild the modern library is something that is for most quasi governmental organisations, nearly impossible. I kind of think we need startups for the library world. But for a historically underfunded facet of society, how do we make this happen or attractive? Where does this live, academia, from a few leaders in the library world, private enterprise ie google and search engines?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13114726544529272206noreply@blogger.com