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By: The 541 diary » Blog Archive » Death of physical media?

The 541 diary » Blog Archive » Death of physical media? — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:12:25 +0000

[...] I learned (via Kathryn Greenhill’s Like a Virgin Librarians Matter blog posting) that Virgin is closing its last music mega-store in New York. The [...]

By: peta

peta — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:31:22 +0000

Yes, if you were wondering why my blog was so quiet lately. Getting close to a major website launch will take your mind off almost everything else for awhile.

By: Neerav

Neerav — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:12:58 +0000

Reading your blogpost merely confirms my belief that you are one of the most “clueful” librarians in Australia Kathryn

By: virtually a librarian » fast and furious is the future

virtually a librarian » fast and furious is the future — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:50:49 +0000

[...] post started out as a comment on Kathryn Greenhill’s latest post, Like a Virgin? If you haven’t read it, you should. In it, Kathryn talks about the concept of [...]

By: Brenda Chawner

Brenda Chawner — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:33:29 +0000

Great post, Kathryn. I’ve started thinking about these things, too, as I get ready to teach a course called ‘Electronic Publishing Issues and Opportunities’ in our MLIS programme. In the first week, we look at various chronologies of electronic publishing developments, and I update my own personal timeline of e-publishing technologies I’ve started using. One of the things I’ve realised this year is that I use electronic journals almost exclusively now, particularly since most publishers have digitised their backfiles. Print books are still part of my world though, in part because I still don’t find e-books very usable, but I’m sure that will change over time.

Moving fast is probably one of the biggest challenges facing most libraries – there often isn’t enough time to think through all of the possibilities, and sometimes we just have to accept that there will be change and go along with it. That’s when we need to understand and play to our strengths, and fall back on key professional beliefs like those you, John Blyberg, and Cindi Trainor articulated in the Darien Statements.