Information Tyrannosaur

David Lankes wrote an truly excellent post a few months back discussing the issue of some working librarians worrying that libraries are doomed, complaining, finding excuses, and saying “yeah, but…” when faced with change. He went on to talk about how librarians should somehow find ways to stop “worrying about their future, but instead go about creating [...]

Two weeks ago I attended an event for the kickoff of the Native Creative Consortium of Vermont. They brought in Nathan Shedroff, a pioneer in Experience Design. His talk was fascinating. He talked about how everything is an experience and that companies and organizations, whether consciously or not, are creating certain types of experiences for [...]

There is a lot to be proud of in the world of libraries. There are a lot of creative and innovative ideas. I see a lot of passion and enthusiasm. But there is also a lot that needs to change. The scholarly publishing system is broken, we need to figure out how we are going [...]