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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8 replies on “My favorite use of quotation marks”
Or Betsy as a phrase. 😉
Or maybe they’re not convinced that Betsy is who she says she is.
heh, I love the misuse of quotation marks. My favourite is the “always fresh” sign at our local falafel joint 😉
My all-time favorite (which you will particularly appreciate) is a bumper sticker I once saw that said In “God” We Trust.
I’ve been torturing myself recently by reading http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/. Sort of like watching a car wreck or State of the Union Address – painful, but I can’t look away.
All these years, I thought I really was Betsy. Now I’m beginning to question my very identity.
or maybe the essence of Betsy and would that include essence of Eliza as well?
from someone who is like Michelle but not quite
Sweet! I’m a big fan of the inappropriately used quotation mark. Just posted this “healthy” snack photo from my trip to canada this summer: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterjbromberg/1606508266/
For some reason, I notice in our local real estate guide every realtor has a nickname in quotes. Jane “Betsy” Collins or Robert “Jim” Bannister. Is that a Jersey thing or a Realtor thing? Anyway, thanks for the laugh 🙂