Thoughts on Dismantling
I also found some difficulty at times distinguishing between when Buschman uses sources and when he uses his own voice which caused a lot of page-turning and some re-reading --talk about exercises for the brain! But seriously, I found Buschman to be verbose, but challenging, in thinking about libraries and their future. Especially interesting was a remark he made during a talk given in 2004, On Libraries and the Public Sphere. He said, "Aping business rhetoric and models doesn’t save libraries, it transforms them into something else. We’re a profession and an institution in crisis because we have a structural contradiction between our purposes and practices as they’ve historically evolved and our adaptation to the current environment."
I also found some difficulty at times distinguishing between when Buschman uses sources and when he uses his own voice which caused a lot of page-turning and some re-reading --talk about exercises for the brain! But seriously, I found Buschman to be verbose, but challenging, in thinking about libraries and their future. Especially interesting was a remark he made during a talk given in 2004, On Libraries and the Public Sphere. He said, "Aping business rhetoric and models doesn’t save libraries, it transforms them into something else. We’re a profession and an institution in crisis because we have a structural contradiction between our purposes and practices as they’ve historically evolved and our adaptation to the current environment."
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home