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Jason Griffey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he works to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise is 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 IT 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 AI & Machine Learning in Libraries and Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design from 2018. His newest book, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, will be published by MIT Press in 2024.
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.
Jason can be stalked obsessively online, and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.
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Pics from fall break are up…
The moment that you've all been waiting for: way too many pictures of our trip to VA, complete with humorous commentary. Finally, everyone can sleep again. But only AFTER you look at them.
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Back from vacation to discover…
…that the funniest 3 words _ever_ are “Swedish fonics monkey.”
Care of boingboing.
photos and stories from trip to Busch Gardens and Williamsburg to follow.
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Pics from Fall break are up…
The moment that you’ve all been waiting for: way too many pictures of our trip to VA, complete with humorous commentary. Finally, everyone can sleep again. But only AFTER you look at them.
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Back from vacation to discover…
…that the funniest 3 words _ever_ are “Swedish fonics monkey.”
Care of boingboing.
photos and stories from trip to Busch Gardens and Williamsburg to follow.
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Amazon.com is in the process of digitizing 120,000 books, and making the FULL TEXT searchable online. The kicker? You can't access the entire book digitally…just the pages that are returned for your search. This is in an attempt to increase the utility of their commercial venture. So….it could be better, but the utility will still be incredible.
Full story from Wired….here's an excerpt:
“Amazon's Alexandrian scheme hinges on the insight that physical books can be turned into electronic databases and then – in the retail process – turned back into physical books. This is one of the boldest maneuvers yet in an intense commercial competition, but for all its cunning, this is a civilized, even civilizing war, one that builds libraries rather than burns them. “
Jean…you must use this image somewhere in your master’s paper. It’s a necessity.
from Amazon.com Japan
Amazon.com is in the process of digitizing 120,000 books, and making the FULL TEXT searchable online. The kicker? You can’t access the entire book digitally…just the pages that are returned for your search. This is in an attempt to increase the utility of their commercial venture. So….it could be better, but the utility will still be incredible.
Full story from Wired….here’s an excerpt:
“Amazon’s Alexandrian scheme hinges on the insight that physical books can be turned into electronic databases and then – in the retail process – turned back into physical books. This is one of the boldest maneuvers yet in an intense commercial competition, but for all its cunning, this is a civilized, even civilizing war, one that builds libraries rather than burns them. “
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Fall Break
And finally….Fall Break. All I can say is: About fucking time.
Not that there's a break there. We're gonna do a little travelling, probably to Busch Gardens in VA.
Also, a list of things to do over break:
- Get recommendations for jobs lined up and sent to Career Services
- Start outline of Master's Paper
- Watch a lot of movies with Betsy
- See friends
- Work on projects for classes
- Finish Quicksilver
- Read articles for INLS 180