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Kudos to the Simmons grad school of library and information science, who are taking the modern connotations of their full name seriously. They have started a group blog for the school, and are thinking of a school-wide wiki…
I still find the notion of ‘librarianship’ and of libraries themeslves an unappreciated anachronism in our world culture; even among professional librarians. People who spend their lives gathering hundreds of thousands of volumes in order to allow those in the target audience who can gain physical access to them to read them for free, often look askance at the idea that they might provide searchable databases of public information; even a database of book citation information. The OCLC haven’t quite decided to do such a thing yet, despite their meta-collaborative nature [above and beyond the implicit collaborative nature of all library work].
Nevertheless, the persistence of the idea of providing free access to physical materials goes to show the power of custom and professional culture…
Simmons GSLIS blog takes off …