Crossposted from Greenhouse Studios
Since the 1970s, scholars in fields as varied as sedimentology, ornithology, sociology, and philosophy have come to understand the importance of self-organizing systems, of how higher-order complexity can “emerge”
Revised notes for remarks I delivered on the topic of "Tools: Encouraging Innovation" at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Digital Platform summit last month at the New
A rough transcript of my talk at the 2013 ACRL/NY Symposium last week. The symposium's theme was "The Library as Knowledge Laboratory." Many thanks to Anice Mills and
About six months ago, I was asked by the executive director of a prestigious but somewhat hidebound—I guess "venerable" would be the word—cultural heritage institution to join the next
There is a scene from the first season of the television spy drama, Chuck, that takes place in a library. In the scene, our hero and unlikely spy, Chuck, has returned to his
