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.
Liz Lawley
From physical to virtual and back again
Blurring the boundaries
Awesome: She’s dressed as her WoW character.
Collapsing contexts: she had professional contacts emailing her about her son’s behavior on WoW.
Blogs at Terra Nova
Is Wow the new golf?
Game Mechanics
Collecting
Points
Feedback
Exchanges
Customization
She’s creating a new character, live, in WoW.
MMO player stages as management:
Entry
Practice
Mastery
Burnout
Recovery
Joe Janes
Reference 2.0
Very nice…at Internet Librarian, but not using slides.
He’s pimping: ischool.washington.edu
New session at ALA: take everyone who longs for the “good ole days” and wants the National Union Catalog, lock the doors, and send them away. Think of the jobs then available!
Ready reference might be over.
“An academic is the sort of person who would face the Apocalypse with a historical overview”
1876: people can’t find the information they need. 2007: people can’t find the information they need.
First libraries to offer reference: special libraries, then public, lastly reference. No reference desk in academic libraries before 1910.
Reference is designed for a world with lots of information that is unfindable. That isn’t today…today we have lots of information that is FINDABLE.
Going to be an ever more digital world, and it is worth assuming that everything will be digital.
Lots of ways to get at information, at every level you can imagine.
We are trained to find wholes…we are going to increasingly find parts.
“If you aren’t editing Wikipedia articles, keep your mouth shut.”
Provide services to the kind of people who want your service.
“Get out of the freaking library.”
Be somewhere and everywhere.
Libraries have to provide space: meeting space, study rooms, etc.
Somewhere and everywhere, in and out, wholes and parts, more and better.
A Modest Proposal: For the people who dive deep, for the people who care: That’s when we do “real” reference.
For now, print is our secret weapon.
Weed those reference collections, put them in the ciculating collection.
For quick reference, concentrate on moving them forward.
For the people who are not information users, leave them alone.
Lee Ranie, Pew Internet Project
Talking about the experience of being blogged…pulled quotes from Writings of the Loud Librarian.
Hallmarks of the New Digital Ecosystem
9 user groups
Lots of interesting numbers, but this is more or less the talk Lee gave at Computers in Libraries. Not a terrible thing (most of the people here hadn’t heard it before), but not a lot of meat in the talk for those who attended CiL.
I head out far-too-early in the morning for Internet Librarian 2007. I’m scheduled to be faculty on a preconference on Sunday, with an all-star cast (minus me): Michelle Boule, Amanda Etches-Johnson, Meredith Farkas, and Chad Boeninger. We’re doing a full day of Academic Library 2.0, and it should be a blast.
Hope to see everyone there! If you see me, and don’t know me…introduce yourself!
I do so love Commoncraft.
I am just blown away by the 3D ultrasounds that we had done yesterday. Not just because she’s my little girl (or soon will be) but the technology is insane. I watched it being done, and grok the how of it, but seeing it in action is difficult to wrap one’s head around. Tiny slices of imagery, layered and stitched to build a virtual 3D model, and then displayed and rotated for the best possible angle…
In any case, I’m trying not to go too much into babyland with this blog (that’s reserved for Brand New World) but I had to throw one of these up.
Just another amazing video from the maker of The Machine is Us/ing us. Digital information, as much as we like to treat it like paper, is just different.
The sooner librarians get their heads around this, the better for our patrons. I’m trying desperately to wrap my head around how this influences our new library building…
Here’s a great example of my very favorite misuse of quotation marks: the use of quotation marks to indicate emphasis, where it should probably be underlined or bolded. This is a card we recieved at our latest baby shower.
So it’s not for Betsy; it’s for someone like Betsy, or perhaps someone pretending to be Betsy?
Or maybe just Opera in general.
I own a Samsung Blackjack, and it probably comes as no surprise to anyone that Internet Explorer on it sucks. Just a horrible browser. Enter Opera Mobile, a really great little browser for mobile devices. I downloaded the trial version and gave it a month…good interface, fast, let me do everything I wanted.
So I decide I want to purchase this piece of software. It will make my life much easier, and is worth the $24.
I got to the Buy Opera page, tell them I want to buy a copy of Mobile for Smartphones, and it asks me for some info…including my “Device ID” which is evidently their method of DRM. By using a code specific to the phone, they can control whether or not I share the program by making it impossible for me to do so.
Ok, whatever. I can still move my install to another phone if I want by calling them, not perfect but I’ll deal. So how do I get the Device ID? By going to the “menu” function on the browser, on the phone.
Which doesn’t work, because the trial has expired, and all I get is an error message when I try to run it.
So…I can’t buy the software I want to use, because I tried the software to determine I wanted to use it.
Somehow, this seems appropriate again:
