Drawing from John Blyberg’s ILS Customer’s Bill of Rights and
The Social Customer Manifesto, Jenny Levine offers this Online Library User Manifesto:

I want to have a say, so you need to provide mechanisms for this to happen online.  
I want to know when something is wrong, and what you’re going to do to fix it.  
I [...]

Posted January 25, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: collaboration, commons, community, conversation, future library, future of libraries, interactivity, jenny levine, libraries, library, manifesto, millennials, online library user manifesto, social software. 2 Comments.

Take a look at this editorial by Jerry D. Campbell, CIO and Dean of University Libraries at the University of Southern California:
Academic libraries today are complex institutions with multiple roles and a host of related operations and services developed over the years. Yet their fundamental purpose has remained the same: to provide access to trustworthy, [...]

Posted January 18, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: future of libraries, jerry campbell, jerry d campbell, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library20, opinion. Be the first one.

I hadn’t seen Ryan Eby’s post at LibDev that connected ILSs with WordPress before I posted that library catalogs should be like WordPress here. It connects with a my comment on a post at Meredith Farkas’ Information Wants To Be Free. My comment there goes in two directions, but I’d like to focus on the [...]

Posted November 27, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: catalog data, coders wanted, future, future of libraries, future of library catalogs, future of the ils, future of the opac, libraries, library, library 2.0, library catalog, library catalogs, library technology, library20, opac, programmers wanted, smart software, software design. 13 Comments.