Hi ... I am a librarian, writer, and adviser. I enjoy working with groups of libraries to develop shared services, products and directions. I help guide national and international cooperative and R&D programs. I have been very lucky to work for library, educational, and non-profit organizations in Ireland, the UK, the EU and the US.
I am currently Professor of Practice and Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Information School, University of Washington. Explore my reflections about the evolution of libraries in their social and cultural contexts in these pages.
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Doing things with software and data.
1060 posts
Libraries are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
416 posts
Broadly construed .. how we experience systems, services and interfaces.
335 posts
Notes about books, movies and reading.
305 posts
Research and learning behaviors drive academic library change.
294 posts
The network organization of personal, social and academic life.
172 posts
Collective, inside-out, facilitated, optimized, pluralized and computationally analyzed.
114 posts
Comments about the site, or more personal observations or topics.
27 posts
Posts which introduced concepts or vocabulary which have gained some currency.
25 posts
Balancing common goals and institutional autonomy makes library collaboration difficult.
8 posts
Fonts make language visible, and can communicate a particular feeling. How are they used in libraries, cultural institutions, universities and related organizations?
2 posts
Deep dives and quick takes: libraries, society, culture and technology
