Posting this so I don’t lose track. Fantastically creative:
Here’s the source.
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Library
25-Aug-08Ithaka has released an interesting study it has been working with since 2000 on academic libraries and faculty perceptions. What I like most from this is a useful model of academic library services that they’ve broken into three aspects: purchaser, archive, and gateway. They describe these as:
The purchaser role was described in the survey by [...]
… and by “fail-safe” I mean safe to fail with minimal consequences. That’s the question I’m wondering about after viewing this Cory Doctorow lecture a couple of weeks ago:
The transcript can be found here: http://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt
A few key quotes:
The Internet turns out to be much better at allowing people to form groups than it [...]