Comments on: Whither the library? https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/03/whither-the-library/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:59:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Shaping Youth » Teen Book Publishers Premiere Louder Than Words TV https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/03/whither-the-library/#comment-78034 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:59:40 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=826#comment-78034 […] it all contributes to a larger conversation, “What is the future of print media, the library, books and reading” in our increasingly digital […]

]]> By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/03/whither-the-library/#comment-73542 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:41:25 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=826#comment-73542 Howard, re: the hub, maybe the commons (food courts, seating/reading areas) and the library need to merge?

As to the editorships, the second one is only just getting started, so contrast report will have to wait :). Collaboration is good, though for individual credit you need a way to track contributions I reckon. Though wikis can do that, how does an evaluation committee respond? “We have promotion an tenure evaluations to conduct here!”

I think in the long term, we’ll find ways (microcredits?), but in the short term, bureaucracy is slow to change. And scholarship is unrewarding enough without removing the glory (limited as it is) as well!

]]> By: Howard Johnson https://blog.learnlets.com/2009/03/whither-the-library/#comment-73539 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:04:19 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=826#comment-73539 I always love the library because it seems like the community hub of the university. This function is still needed, maybe even more so as the world becomes more virtual. It just seems that the transition in all aspects of publishing, especially in terms of business / funding models, is difficult.
PS – I would love to hear more on the contrast between your editorships. Personally, I would love to see the bulk of scholarship move to a more collaborative model, like a wiki-model. I just think that academic publishing would be so much more productive and valuable if it wasn’t bounded by so much of an individualistic model.

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