Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Public libraries are often seen as “opportunity institutions,” opening doors to, and for, the disenfranchised.
Shannon Mattern • Library as Infrastructure
Libraries must be seen as a core value.
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
A public library today has information to improve people’s lives. We are an enabler; we are a connector.
Shannon Mattern • Library as Infrastructure
“librarians are what the internet is aching for—people on task to care about the past, with respect to the past and also to what it shall bequeath to the future.” Can we reimagine libraries for the digital age?
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
Libraries in the Digital Age: A Case Study in Equipping Librarians with the Tools of Idea Management - Forte Labs
Tiago Fortefortelabs.com
So that, I think, is the role of information curators: They are our curiosity sherpas, who lead us to things we didn’t know we were interested in until we, well, until we are. Until we pay attention to them — because someone whose taste and opinion we trust points us to them, and we integrate them with our existing pool of resources, and they becom... See more
