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
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.

My friend Joe Monninger is perhaps a library’s favorite patron. He’s an avid reader who depends on his public library for books and audiobooks and DVDs, and as a writer and professor he depends on the services of the university library. But he doesn’t work in libraries, and though he listens patiently to my work [...]

Posted December 13, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: customer, evolution of libraries, libraries, library, library 2.0, opinion, organizational evolution, outside opinion, unsolicited advice, user, user centered design. 17 Comments.

Arguments about Wikipedia’s value and authority will rage for quite a while, but it’s interesting to see where the lines are being drawn.
On the one had we’ve got a 12 year-old pointing out errors in Encyclopaedia Britannica (via Many2Many) and now on the other side we’ve got John Seigenthaler, a former editorial page editor at [...]

Posted December 5, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: blog, bloggers, blogs, communities, community, editor, editorial, editorial control, fear, findability, forbes, google economy, John Seigenthaler, libel, moderation, opinion, Seigenthaler, slander, social, social software, usa today, wiki, wikipedia. 6 Comments.