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Author: griffey
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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SIGN THE PETITION
Great point by Lessig about reasons that librarians should ALL be signing the petition for the Public Domain. Sign up, people!
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cutting libraries while killing the commons. Commons-blog has a nice link to a story about Milwaukee libraries being defunded. Yet at the same time, extensions of copyright terms simply increase the cost of getting access to content. If every librarian signed our Reclaim the Public Domain Petition, then perhaps we could rebuild a public domain that could make the costs of libraries fall. [Lessig Blog]
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This may be the coolest use
This may be the coolest use of blogger ever…anonymous book reviews by children at a library. Phenomenal idea, and great practice writing for the kids…
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Got blog? The Roselle Public Library District sure does. Check out their way cool Blogger Book Club!
“The Blogger Book Club is an 'invitation only,' online, book discussion group. It is an opportunity for kids to share their thoughts and ideas about books, anonymously, at their convenience and from wherever they happen to be (at home, on vacation, in the library… wherever!). We will be talking about several of the books from the 2004 Rebecca Caudill nominee list….
The book club is open only to kids in grades 4 – 6 who have a valid Roselle Public Library card.“
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For those of you keeping up
For those of you keeping up with local news, the Chapel Hill Police have fired John Moore (at least, the Chapel Hill News reported that he was fired…the link says he was released), one of the two officers who impersonated FBI agents while questioning Erin Carter (a Chapel Hill High School student) about some supposed “hacking” that had occured on the schools computers. She had a blog entry that mentioned said hacking, and thus became the focus of the police investigation.
Link to stories from The Independent. Direct link to one of the better ones.
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Not quite sure what I could
Not quite sure what I could possibly say about this, other than Japanese culture has some very, very strange ideas.
Just had to blog it, cause it took me several minutes to figure out what the fark it was about.
Warning: not for the prudish.
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Oooooooo….from BoingBoing,
Oooooooo….from BoingBoing, a page full of completely outrageous truck mods from Japan. And I don't mean truck like “hey I got a pickup that I made into a lowrider” I mean like “I've got a semi and a dumptruck and I want them to have more chrome than the entire state of Texas.” These are just beautiful in their own way…make sure you check out the pics at the bottom in the dark.
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For those of you out in blo
For those of you out in blog land looking for a tasteful, thoughtful gift for your dad for fathers day (or really, for any occasion for anyone you love), may I present you with this fine option.
Currently number nine on the Amazon Hats, Gloves, Scarves best selling list,but sure to rise quickly.
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Had some fun yesterday…di
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This will be ALL over
This will be ALL over the library blogs, but eh…I'll do it anyway.
BoingBoing posts about a hotel in New York called The Library Hotel that has themed itself after the Dewey Decimal system. It has 10 floors, one for each of the primary distinctions of the system, with each room being a subset of the classification. Then, each room has shelves with books from that particular classfication.
Someone call the guys at SLA so they can go by this place! If any of you happen to read this…check it out!
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In kind of bizzaro-world te
In kind of bizzaro-world tech news, Palm has agreed to buy Handspring. For those who aren't up on the history of these two companies, the founders of Handspring are also the founders of Palm. They founded Palm, sold it to US Robotics, made money, got sold to 3Com, left because they didn't like 3Com, founded Handspring, made money, and are now selling the company they founded back to the company they left. Not only that, but Jeff Dawkins (one of the two founders along with Donna Dubinsky) has taken a job with 3Com, the company that he left to found Handspring.
Gah.