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A failure of imagination – the problem with format neutrality
I often hear librarians promoting their ‘modern librarian’ credentials by saying “it’s about the information, not the container”. By this they tend to mean that librarians in a world of instantly...
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Winter is coming for copyright slumlords
Did you hear? Game of Thrones is now the “most illegally copied” television show of the season, and Australians top the list of pirates. The reasons are simple enough – lag times of 2 weeks between...
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On relevance, standards and collaborative leadership
Regular readers of this blog will have noticed an absence of posts over the last few months. After a recent promotion I’ve simply been so busy with work that I have neglected you all. I would like to...
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Julia Gillard, Terry Deary and the cultural problems with libraries
On Sunday Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a new ‘Reading Blitz’ program for primary school students. As I read the Prime Minister’s media release (thanks @latikambourke) I was struck...
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You need an R&D culture, not an R&D department
A couple of weeks ago, a tweet popped up in my feed just begging for a click-through: Yes. A thousand times yes. @adr "Libraries need their own R&D Departments."...
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Libraries as software – dematerialising, platforms and returning to first...
Ever since I read Marcus Westbury’s article about Renew Newcastle, Cities as software, last year I’ve been thinking about how the concepts he writes about can be applied to libraries. For those who...
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Technolust – the fifth column of the information counter-revolution
I’m going to start with a story about growing up in Tasmania in the 1990s. The economy wasn’t great, with unemployment at around 11%, no economic growth to speak of and a high State debt. In these...
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