A tag roundup
Systems
Doing things with software and data.
Institutions
Libraries, and archives and museums, are social organizations, entangled in multiple histories, politics and value systems.
UX
Broadly construed .. how we experience systems, services and interfaces.
Books
Notes about books, movies and reading.
Research/Learning
Libraries are not ends in themselves but support the goals of their communities. Research and learning behaviors drive academic library change.
Social
The network organization of personal, social and academic life.
Collections
Collections are changing. They are being optimized and pluralized. I have introduced concepts such as the collective collection, the inside-out collection, and the facilitated collection.
*Classics
Significant or influential posts. This selection is seeded by select posts from Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog, my blog at OCLC.
Meta
Comments about the site, or more personal observations or topics.
Collaboration
Libraries work together in a variety of ways to increase efficiency and impact. But collaboration is difficult. Personality and politics play a big part alongside incentives and organizational structures.
