Archive for the ‘Librarianship’ Category
The Foundation for Librarianship
Is there a commonality that all librarians share? Some would say that instruction is the commonality in librarianship. I disagree. My choice would be the Five Laws of Library Science (adjusted to account for non-book materials).
To boil down the five laws even further, one might say that a service-orientation is the central component of librarianship. [...]
Abstraction Layers
Joel, from Joel On Software, has an interesting article about what he calls the Development Abstraction Layer. I’m not in the business world, but the whole description interested me. I posted a quote from it in #code4lib (not one that I particularly agreed with, but one that I found thought provoking) and Ross [...]
Identured Information
Richard Crawford, in his weblog, The Literate Penguin, questions the meaning of the cliche “Information wants to be free.” I wrote a comment there, but found the question interesting enough to put it here too (so that I can find it again easily).
My comment was that information is social. All knowledge (which really isn’t the [...]