Comments on: Just call me Tenzing Norbook, I guess.

By: Why libraries matter, cont’d: The “future library”? It’s already here. | bluejay's way

Wed, 18 May 2011 16:51:01 +0000

[...] no longer true. (And maybe that’s the real problem, as Toby Greenwalt of The Analog Divide suggests: the public wants libraries to be awesome, but doesn’t realize how awesome libraries already [...]

By: information. games. » Blog Archive » Godin and Gee on the future of libraries and books

Mon, 16 May 2011 21:10:10 +0000

[...] the business have been preparing for this change for years.” There have been some articulate counter-arguments, but these don’t seem to dispute Godin’s main point (the future of libraries [...]

By: Seth Godin Misses the Point on Libraries, Again. | Librarian by Day

Seth Godin Misses the Point on Libraries, Again. | Librarian by Day — Mon, 16 May 2011 11:55:32 +0000

[...] Last time he wrote about them it was pretty clear he didn’t “get it” and many librarians responded with posts of their own (you’re not allowed to comment on Godin’s [...]

By: Wmsayo

Wmsayo — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:33:23 +0000

The information is free? Hardly. It takes a chunk of change from the ever-shrinking tax funding to build new or maintain existing buildings to house technology let alone maintain and upgrade the same. Don't forget hardware and software, train personnel (paid a living wage) to monitor the same and to educate the library user (most people using the library are not tech-heads in even the most basic sense) about the tools available to them. Our library board, and the taxpayers, would love it if it were free!

By: Dust Collector Remote

Dust Collector Remote — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:10:35 +0000

I'll back again for sure, thanks for great article

By: Shaping Youth » Refreshing Media Mashup: Using Library Cards for Freebie Fun!

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:16:31 +0000

[...] The Analog Divide: (Responding to Seth Godin’s Library Post) [...]

By: Seth Godin’s Predictions of Library Doom, the Responses, and the Disconnect « LJ Insider

Mon, 31 May 2010 05:42:05 +0000

[...] for Godin’s assumption that information’s becoming free, AndyW quotes Bobbi Newman’s answer: Information is not free. As an author and a blogger you should know better. Even the often [cited] [...]

By: lee4713

lee4713 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:20:56 +0000

But – but – business people are supposed to know MORE than government and nonprofits – ALWAYS! Aren't libraries supposed to start running themselves like businesses??

By: lee4713

lee4713 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:20:19 +0000

But – but – businesspeople ALWAYS know more about government and nonprofits – ALWAYS!!! Aren't we supposed to be more like them?

By: The Radical Patron – extreme thoughts on public libraries –

The Radical Patron – extreme thoughts on public libraries – — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:02:48 +0000

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