[excerpt] ...Libraries have consistently short-changed digital, archival, and publishing support projects. We are much quicker to pull things in from outside than we are to push out to the world the things we have that very few people know about. Too many libraries have done lip service to these functions, checking them off on a list of Trendy Things We Do while starving them of support and setting them up for failure. (Dorothea Salo has recently described this process in a brilliantly scorching "modest proposal" essay.) I think Anderson is right that we got distracted by the shift of formats from print to digital and missed the shift from libraries as the ultimate curators and organizers to bigger and better discovery platforms outside the library...
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/what-are-libraries-anyway
Inside Higher Ed
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/what-are-libraries-anyway
Inside Higher Ed
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