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.
We bought a house!
Ok, well…we’re buying a house. Under contract, closing Aug 31! We can’t wait…the house is nearly exactly what we were looking for: great floorplan, wonderful kitchen, just nearly perfect. We’re both just excited about having our own place again, especially when it’s so nice.
So: everyone’s invited over…we’ll make up the extra bedroom. Just give us some warning. 🙂
I discovered this via Jessamyn, but this has got to be one of my favorite sites/ideas/art pieces of the last year:
From CNN:
The House voted by a wide margin Thursday night to renew expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the collection of antiterrorism measures passed after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The final vote was 257-171. The bill makes permanent 14 of 16 provisions in the act set to expire next year and extends two others for another 10 years.
Makes permanent….makes…permanent. Gah! At least there’s SOME silver lining:
One amendment that did pass overwhelmingly requires the FBI director to personally approve any FBI requests for bookstore or library records of suspected terrorists. Sponsored by Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, it passed 402-26.
OMFG.
I must own this poster.
This looks amazing. I’m a sucker for Cash…and to see Pheonix doing him is really interesting. It appears as if he’s even doing his own singing, which is a hell of a challenge. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash is a little odd (I always thought of June as the “strong one” in that relationship, and Reese doesn’t do that for me). But trailer looks incredible, so…something to look forward to this Fall.
My first official instruction duties here at UTC will be to do a talk to the incoming Faculty Fellows about Information Literacy and the library’s role in educating their students.
I’m preparing by going over tons of the online literature concerning IL, as well as doing the standard sorts of database searches for articles on the subject. I’ve only got an hour or so with them, so I can’t do any terribly in-depth exercises (although I am going to do something active). I can talk about how IL is effectively learning how to learn, and that we’re trying to prepare the student to evaluate more than just scholarly information, and all that rot. But I’m trying to decide how far to push the evaluation of information stuff, since I don’t agree at all with some of the canon on the subject. I’m thinking of doing the following:
Seems harmless enough, right? I’m only concerned because my central issue coming into the library, at least in my own head, is the rate of change that I can effect. How much radicalism is too much?
Tons of cool stuff happening online today:
One word:
Interesting.
I’ll not spoil anything for those of you still working your way through it. But in a week or so, I wanna hear what everyone thought, and where you think the story is heading. This one went in all the directions I expected (except one) and I’m interested in what she’s doing with certain characters, and how the whole thing might wrap up.
My verdict: I loved it, but I like all the books. It’s not my favorite of the bunch, but it certainly had its surprising moments, as well as its warm fuzzy ones. Damn spoilers….hurry up, every one, so I can talk about it!
The official announcement of me joining the faculty at UTC is up. I don’t know quite what to think about “Professor Griffey” though.
Probable radio silence through the weekend. Got some interesting things to talk about next week, though…some possible copyright stuff, as well as an update about the job and librarianship in general.
Just a quick note to let anyone interested know that there will be some broken links on my site as a whole over the next few days/weeks. This will esp. impact my Gallery pages (which I am re-evaluating and will be down for some time).
This blog should stay up and functional for a bit, but there could be random wierdness (thanks a lot, Linda!) weirdness otherwise. Be warned. 🙂
Here’s the situation: I’ve got a large bookmark file from Netscape Navigator (4.2 megs of bookmarks…yes, you read that correctly). I would love to do a few things:
Those two would get me started. It’s not standard HTML (having just been dumped from Netscape), so that’s a little wierd. I could massage it into psuedo-standard via find/replace, but then IE wouldn’t import it (I don’t think).
Thoughts?