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I have long puzzled over the fact that in the golden age of the library function, there has been a systematic failure of library institutions. By “library function” I refer to the functions and institutions that maintain the memory of the human species. This function includes those institutions and people who save, organize, and provide … Continue Reading about So we beat on, boats against the current… →

I have alluded in several posts to the disparities one finds in looking at distributions of library data. By “distributions” I am talking here about making observations and generalizations when one looks at all the data from a set of libraries. I am going to discuss a fact of library life we all know about, … Continue Reading about A Riff on Big →

No, despite the title, this isn’t a belated April Fools joke. 🙂 We had around 50 people descend on the Marriott City Center during PLA for the Evergreen Birds of a Feather gathering. Evergreen stakeholders seemed to be well distributed around the room and it was just an informal gathering with food and much chatting. … Continue Reading about Birds Gathered, No Feathers Ruffled →