On 8/7/07, Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> The view on not only education but *how* people these days learn and
> use their education certainly has for me changed the way I develop
> systems. No more databases, search engines and browsing subject
> headings ; I want to tap into more human knowledge, and for that
> there's blogs, comments, podcasts and the *content* of books. So. What
> do we do next?
I was just thinking about this yesterday. The core dialog, criticism
and development of the scholarly record has shifted from letters to
the editor and counterpoint articles to blogs, wikis, mailing lists
and other arenas. What are libraries doing to position themselves to
capture these trails? Who is aggregating and preserving these
thoughts (besides, to a degree, the Internet Archive)?
Our landscape is shifting rapidly and our 'sophisticated research
tools' don't even have any capacity to compensate for new (or even
not-so-new) avenues of scholarly communication. In this context, how
is Mann's thesis about LCSH anything more than pedantic whistling past
the graveyard?
-Ross.
Received on Tue Aug 07 2007 - 08:29:23 EDT