{"id":2438,"date":"2010-07-21T22:38:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2010-07-21T22:38:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T14:38:31","slug":"not-a-paperless-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/21\/not-a-paperless-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a paperless office…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working at Curtin University for a week now.<\/p>\n

On my way from the carpark on my first day, I tweeted that I had just heard a segment about the whether the \u00a0“paperless office” fulfilled its promise on ABC Radio National’s Future Tense<\/a> . \u00a0In response, Michael Rees from Bond University shared that night his experience with cleaning out 19 years worth of contents in his university office, A Major Step Closer to a Paperless\u00a0Office<\/a>. He discarded…<\/p>\n

…About 8 bookshelf metres of conference proceedings, box files and the usual stuff in ring binders including lots of overhead slides from the 1970s and 1980s all bit the dust. 9 full filing cabinet drawers were reduced to 0.25 of a drawer \u2013 that was all I had actually looked at in the last 12 months. 23 old conference bags were reduced to 2. Out of over 100 optical disks about 3 survived. I kept 1 USB headset\/mic and discarded a dozen or more old analogue headsets, mics and speakers. It feels wonderful. [For those wondering I discarded all my printed journals 2 or 3 years ago.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nConsequently I don’t feel too bad about the inheritance that will share my space until we move buildings at the end of the year. It’s a decade worth of the Tuesday\u00a0IT Section of the Australian newspaper<\/a>. Only half of the collection fit into the photo.<\/p>\n

I was asked whether I wanted to continue adding to the collection. “Why not”, I thought, “obviously it was valued and it would be a pity to stop it now”. For about 5 seconds… before I asked myself whether I would have chosen it as essential for my office if it wasn’t there already…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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