Outside the box … June 29, 2007
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Outside the box …
Originally uploaded by hblowers.
I’ve been remiss in writing on this blog for a while. Why? I was in Houston for a cousin’s wedding, and then I went to DC for the Annual ALA Conference. It was amazing this year. I’ll blog more about it later this weekend. But this pic that Helene Blowers uploaded to Flickr is just awesome. When Paul Gherman talks about the concept of a new library here at Vanderbilt, this is what I think of. We can’t continue to stay comfortable with the legacy issues and traditional ways of doing things in libraryland. I know we don’t want a new building to be just a warehouse for books. It really needs to be for the users, and in order for us to really understand our users, we have to step outside our comfort zone and think outside the box. We have to be familiar with where social software, web 2.0 technologies, and new methods of communication, such as the iPhone, are taking our users. We have to be aware and willing to take the leap into the unknown. It’s up to us, the library staff, to make the library more than just a box with services.
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