Jason Griffey was most recently the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he worked to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise was useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of Library IT and a tenured professor at the University of TN at Chattanooga.
Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently a chapter in Library 2035 - Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries by Rowman & Littlefield. His latest full-length work Standards - Essential Knowledge, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, was published by MIT Press in March 2025.
He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.
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Okay, in order to answer your question, I’m going to need a little more information. First of all, what is the scale of the object? Are we talking about several inches long, or several feet? Also, what kind of material is it made of? Plastic? Metal?
Dang. Your commenting script strips out fake HTML! There should be [reference interview] tags surrounding that previous comment.
Yeah…what you meant was:
<reference interview>Okay, in order to answer your question, I’m going to need a little more information. First of all, what is the scale of the object? Are we talking about several inches long, or several feet? Also, what kind of material is it made of? Plastic? Metal?</reference interview>
You’ve got to use the code for brackets, otherwise it interprets them.
it must be for hanging something?
Is is a handrail for handicapped people to get into a pool?
a Roto Rooter plumbing device? a trombone cleaner? No, wait! Being as my old college roommate was a complete klepto, who was known to produce everything from plywood to doorknobs to an entire flagpole in our freshman dorm room, I have to say–it looks like something that the Town of Chapel Hill uses to hang Christmas stars from lampposts on Franklin Street!! (that’s my final answer)
It’s a back massager/energizer/thing. I just bought one for my dad for christmas.