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I promise not to turn this into a baby blog, but I had to share.
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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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Twitters from 2007-07-24
- @akearns: I would go with WP, but I’m a longtime WP fan. #
- @wanderingeyre: I’m all in for big game @ ALA. Been there, done that at other conferences… #
- Knew joshuaneff was cool. Anyone who’s been to GenCon rocks…. #
- Late, finally heading home. Annual report, Collection Development, and weeding project all due in the next week. #
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Twitters from 2007-07-23
- trying to work a Walt Crawford joke into my upcoming book review. Sadly, word count may prevent it from seeing print… #
- up too early, headed in for ILS systems training…upgrading next week. *sigh* #
- @wanderingeyre: Thanks! I try…. #
- Check out what interrupted our picnic on Saturday: http://tinyurl.com/2ekk3v #
We’re over at a friend’s house this past Saturday for his birthday party, and Betsy and I and a friend are just lounging in the yard eating. Beautiful day, with maybe, oh…30 people eating in various places around the yard.
Guy walks up to us and says “Don’t freak out, but there’s a big snake just behind you.” I don’t think anything of it, really…country boy, seen plenty of snakes…so we stand up to take a look.
That’s the “after” photo…it was at least a 4 foot timber rattler. Biggest one I’ve ever seen, hanging out right at the edge of the yard. Lots of kids, boys playing football…I shudder when I think about one of them tossing the ball just a little too far.
See if you can spot him in the “before” shot on flickr. Or how about just the head (again, an “after” shot).
One other shot, from a different angle:
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Twitters from 2007-07-22
- HP7 all day, with a party and dinner between chapters. ~400 pages in…will finish tonight. #
- HP7 finished at midnight last night…that’s less than 7 hours for the book. Will listen to audio book this week…. #
- So twits: when does the “no HP spoilers!” thing go away? I want to ask people questions!! #
- @tinfoilraccoon: can’t seem to find the room…URL? #
- Harry Potter will NOT be a New York Times bestseller: http://tinyurl.com/3dwhru #
After discussing the book today with some friends on Meebo, I came up with the perfect turn-of-phrase for the collective sadness enveloping all of us who have spent 10 years following these characters. We all suffer from:
Post-Potter Depression
Thanks everybody, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.
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Twitters from 2007-07-20
- So…somebody give me the elevator pitch for Uncontrolled Vocabulary. Somewhere, I missed the memo. #
- So…somebody give me the elevator pitch for Uncontrolled Vocabulary. Somewhere, I missed the memo. #
- Getting our MeeboMe on the reference page working with Pidgin. My implementation: http://www.lib.utc.edu/im.html, via http://jrpomeroy.c … #
- Gah..no auto-tinyurl? Previous link is: http://jrpomeroy.com/pidgin/ #
- My new all-time favorite photo: http://flickr.com/photos/griffey/858634151/ #
- On the way to the (very short) weekend. Back on Sunday on reference desk. #
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Open Library
I’m a bit late in pointing this out, but Open Library launched it’s public beta.
I feel that I can say with little hyperbole that this is the future of libraries.
After hearing about the project from Casey Bisson at ALA Annual, I was excited. But seeing this thing in the flesh is a whole other level….my hat goes off to Casey, Aaron Schwartz, Karen Coyle, and the rest of the OL team. This is a huge step for libraries…now, give us a nice, tidy, easy to use API and we’ll be happy. 🙂
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Twitters from 2007-07-19
We’ve put off an official blog announcement until now, but it just can’t wait any longer:
It’s a girl!!!
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This is an older scan, but I haven’t had time to put up the newest ones, so…this will do as a placeholder. Betsy and I are expecting a little girl, due Dec. 19th. We are both so completely thrilled, and excited, and scared. But mostly thrilled and excited. 🙂
Here’s the rules: No Pink. No Frilly dresses. No dating until she’s 25. Got it?