Good faith has powered collaboration between libraries and publishers for over 100 years. When books are ordered and purchased from publishers, libraries enter a long-term relationship with the object. In the world of bits, it is understood that the publisher’s relationship with the object stops with the check clearing from the library. In the world [...]
In Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner famously said, “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” With the advent of new processes, the past can survive and be retrieved in new ways and forms. The new skills needed to preserve digital information are the same ones that librarians have always employed to serve users: [...]
Many libraries including the Greenwich Public Library (CT) have oral history collections of residents, famous and not so famous. But as the US population ages, people are starting to wonder if what they’re creating online will survive them.
Libraries have always kept some kind of vertical file for local residents. The DeKalb Public Library (IL) [...]
About
Jay Datema has an MBA from Binghamton University (2007), a Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (1999), and a BA in Literature from Wheaton College (1995).
Reading
Johnson, Steven. Mind wide open : your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life. New York: Scribner, 2004.
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“The new skills needed to preserve digital information are the same ones that librarians have always employed to serve users: selection, acquisition, and local knowledge.”
– Episode 3
16 April 2007
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