1) The document discusses the challenges of library discovery and findability in the digital age. It addresses issues like fragmentation across sites, difficulty finding resources from the home page, and the preference of students to use search engines over library databases.
2) It proposes solutions like a unified library portal and search, core subject areas, and network intelligence to improve discovery. Wireframes and interfaces are suggested for a portal, search, browsing objects and pages.
3) Search is described as a complex adaptive system involving goals, psychology, interaction, indexing, tools and more. The library is positioned as a keystone for culture and inspiration.
Guest lecture for the Hyperlinked Library MOOC, a free online course offered by Michael Stephens, Kyle Jones, and the School of Library and Information Science at San José State University.
Guest lecture for the Hyperlinked Library MOOC, a free online course offered by Michael Stephens, Kyle Jones, and the School of Library and Information Science at San José State University.
Immersive Recommendation Workshop, NYC Media Lab'17Longqi Yang
The rapid evolution of deep learning technologies and the explosion of diverse user interaction traces have brought significant challenges and opportunities to recommendation and personalized systems. In this workshop, we discussed recent trends and techniques in user modeling and presented our work on immersive recommendation systems. These systems learn users’ preferences from diverse digital trace modalities (text, image and unstructured data streams) in a wide range of recommendation domains (creative art, food, news, and events). The workshop included a light tutorial on OpenRec, an open source framework that enables quick prototyping of complex recommender systems via modularization.
This workshop is based on research and development done at Cornell Tech as part of the Connected Experiences Lab, supported by Oath and NSF.
Reputation Management for Early Career ResearchersMicah Altman
In the rapidly changing world of research and scholarly communications, researchers are faced with a fast growing range of options to publicly disseminate, review, and discuss research—options which will affect their long-term reputation. Early career scholars must be especially thoughtful in choosing how much effort to invest in dissemination and communication, and what strategies to use.
Dr. Micah Altman briefly reviews a number of bibliometric and scientometric studies of quantitative research impact, a sampling of influential qualitative writings advising this area, and an environmental scan of emerging researcher profile systems. Based on this review, and on professional experience on dozens of review panels, Dr. Altman suggests some steps early career researchers may consider when disseminating their research and participating in public reviews and discussion.
Living in Tech City: 50+ Technology Trends and Innovations Transforming Workp...cjbonk
Abstract: This session is geared toward trainers, managers, instructional designers, educators, learners, practitioners, and government officials who share an interest in contemporary advances in learning technologies that are shaping education for today’s and tomorrow’s learner. In this session, Professor Curt Bonk of Indiana University will discuss dozens of technologies and Web resources that have emerged over the past few years to transform corporate training as well as higher education and most other learning settings. Among these technologies tools are smartphones and smart watches, digital course resources, social books, social media, online talking dictionaries, video walls, virtual assistants, and Web conferencing. Also exploding at this time is enrollment in online or virtual learning, blended learning, massive open online courses (MOOCs), and the use of collaborative tools in such e-learning courses. While these 50+ technology trends and innovation are exciting and highly transformative, each has pros and cons in how they are used in different training and education spaces. To make it more personal, this session will, in part, be a presentation, and, in part, a conversation about learning technology trends and innovations. As such, there will be much opportunity for question and answer as well as personal reflection.
Thanks in part to efficient search engines such as Google, on-line reading has become for many the primary way that people read. This talk will discuss how a wide range of research in web usability, psychology, education, and communication theory provides corroborating evidence that on-line reading is transforming cognition, learning, and the very nature of knowledge in some disturbing ways.
My colleague, Jodi Hoover, and I gave this presentation during our first MLS archives course. Our research investigated common reactions to, and perceptions of, archival research, particularly in how various users approach finding aids. In the final portion of our presentation we discussed the problem of "hidden collections" and possible ways to improve patron access to such collections.
MIT Program on Information Science Talk -- Julia Flanders on Jobs, Roles, Ski...Micah Altman
Julia Flanders, who is the Director of the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library, and a Professor of Practice in Northeastern's English Department gave a talk on Jobs, Roles, Skills, Tools: Working in the Digital Academy as part of the Program on Information Science Brown Bag Series.
In the talk, illustrated by the slides below, Julia discusses the evolving landscape of digital humanities (and digital scholarship more broadly) and considers the relationship between technology, tool development, and professional roles.
For more see: http://informatics.mit.edu/event/brown-bag-jobs-roles-skills-tools-working-digital-academy-julia-flanders
The Research Data Alliance: Creating the culture and technology for an intern...Research Data Alliance
All of society’s grand challenges -- be it addressing rapid climate change, curing cancer and other disease, providing food and water for more than seven billion people, understanding the origins of the universe or the mind -- all of them require diverse and sometimes very large data to to be shared and integrated across cultures, scales, and technologies. This requires a new form and new conception of infrastructure. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is creating and implementing this new data infrastructure. It is building the connections that make data work across social and technical barriers.
RDA launched in March 2013 as a international alliance of researchers, data scientists, and organizations to build these connections and infrastructure to accelerate data-driven innovation. RDA facilitates research data sharing, use, re-use, discoverability, and standards harmonization through the development and adoption of technologies, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables. We do this through focussed Working Groups, exploratory Interest Groups, and a broad, committed membership of individuals and organizations dedicated to improving data exchange.
I also discuss some early ideas on building community and connecting like minded organizations at different scales.
Structured data on the Web frequently referred to as knowledge graphs consists of large number of datasets representing diverse domains. Widely used commercial applications such as entity recommendation, search, question answering and knowledge discovery use these knowledge graphs as their knowledge source. Majority of these applications have a particular domain of interest, hence require only the segment of the Web of data representing that domain (e.g., movie, biomedical, sports). In fact, leveraging the entire Web of data for a domain-specific application is not only computationally intensive, but also the irrelevant portion negatively impact the accuracy of the application. Hence, finding the relevant portion of the Web of data for domain-specific applications has become a paramount issue. Identifying the relevant portion of the Web of data consists of two sub-tasks; 1) find the relevant datasets that contain knowledge on the domain of interest, and 2) extract the subgraph representing domain of interest from the knowledge graphs that represent multiple domains (e.g., DBpedia, YAGO, Freebase). In this talk, I will discuss both data-driven and knowledge-driven approaches to solve these two sub-tasks. The domain-specific subgraphs extracted by our approach were 80% less in size in terms of the number of paths compared to original KG and resulted in more than tenfold reduction of required computational time for domain-specific tasks, yet produced better accuracy on domain-specific applications. We believe that this work can significantly contribute for utilizing knowledge graphs for domain-specific applications, specially with the explosive growth in the creation of knowledge graphs.
Immersive Recommendation Workshop, NYC Media Lab'17Longqi Yang
The rapid evolution of deep learning technologies and the explosion of diverse user interaction traces have brought significant challenges and opportunities to recommendation and personalized systems. In this workshop, we discussed recent trends and techniques in user modeling and presented our work on immersive recommendation systems. These systems learn users’ preferences from diverse digital trace modalities (text, image and unstructured data streams) in a wide range of recommendation domains (creative art, food, news, and events). The workshop included a light tutorial on OpenRec, an open source framework that enables quick prototyping of complex recommender systems via modularization.
This workshop is based on research and development done at Cornell Tech as part of the Connected Experiences Lab, supported by Oath and NSF.
Reputation Management for Early Career ResearchersMicah Altman
In the rapidly changing world of research and scholarly communications, researchers are faced with a fast growing range of options to publicly disseminate, review, and discuss research—options which will affect their long-term reputation. Early career scholars must be especially thoughtful in choosing how much effort to invest in dissemination and communication, and what strategies to use.
Dr. Micah Altman briefly reviews a number of bibliometric and scientometric studies of quantitative research impact, a sampling of influential qualitative writings advising this area, and an environmental scan of emerging researcher profile systems. Based on this review, and on professional experience on dozens of review panels, Dr. Altman suggests some steps early career researchers may consider when disseminating their research and participating in public reviews and discussion.
Living in Tech City: 50+ Technology Trends and Innovations Transforming Workp...cjbonk
Abstract: This session is geared toward trainers, managers, instructional designers, educators, learners, practitioners, and government officials who share an interest in contemporary advances in learning technologies that are shaping education for today’s and tomorrow’s learner. In this session, Professor Curt Bonk of Indiana University will discuss dozens of technologies and Web resources that have emerged over the past few years to transform corporate training as well as higher education and most other learning settings. Among these technologies tools are smartphones and smart watches, digital course resources, social books, social media, online talking dictionaries, video walls, virtual assistants, and Web conferencing. Also exploding at this time is enrollment in online or virtual learning, blended learning, massive open online courses (MOOCs), and the use of collaborative tools in such e-learning courses. While these 50+ technology trends and innovation are exciting and highly transformative, each has pros and cons in how they are used in different training and education spaces. To make it more personal, this session will, in part, be a presentation, and, in part, a conversation about learning technology trends and innovations. As such, there will be much opportunity for question and answer as well as personal reflection.
Thanks in part to efficient search engines such as Google, on-line reading has become for many the primary way that people read. This talk will discuss how a wide range of research in web usability, psychology, education, and communication theory provides corroborating evidence that on-line reading is transforming cognition, learning, and the very nature of knowledge in some disturbing ways.
My colleague, Jodi Hoover, and I gave this presentation during our first MLS archives course. Our research investigated common reactions to, and perceptions of, archival research, particularly in how various users approach finding aids. In the final portion of our presentation we discussed the problem of "hidden collections" and possible ways to improve patron access to such collections.
MIT Program on Information Science Talk -- Julia Flanders on Jobs, Roles, Ski...Micah Altman
Julia Flanders, who is the Director of the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library, and a Professor of Practice in Northeastern's English Department gave a talk on Jobs, Roles, Skills, Tools: Working in the Digital Academy as part of the Program on Information Science Brown Bag Series.
In the talk, illustrated by the slides below, Julia discusses the evolving landscape of digital humanities (and digital scholarship more broadly) and considers the relationship between technology, tool development, and professional roles.
For more see: http://informatics.mit.edu/event/brown-bag-jobs-roles-skills-tools-working-digital-academy-julia-flanders
The Research Data Alliance: Creating the culture and technology for an intern...Research Data Alliance
All of society’s grand challenges -- be it addressing rapid climate change, curing cancer and other disease, providing food and water for more than seven billion people, understanding the origins of the universe or the mind -- all of them require diverse and sometimes very large data to to be shared and integrated across cultures, scales, and technologies. This requires a new form and new conception of infrastructure. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is creating and implementing this new data infrastructure. It is building the connections that make data work across social and technical barriers.
RDA launched in March 2013 as a international alliance of researchers, data scientists, and organizations to build these connections and infrastructure to accelerate data-driven innovation. RDA facilitates research data sharing, use, re-use, discoverability, and standards harmonization through the development and adoption of technologies, policy, practice, standards, and other deliverables. We do this through focussed Working Groups, exploratory Interest Groups, and a broad, committed membership of individuals and organizations dedicated to improving data exchange.
I also discuss some early ideas on building community and connecting like minded organizations at different scales.
Structured data on the Web frequently referred to as knowledge graphs consists of large number of datasets representing diverse domains. Widely used commercial applications such as entity recommendation, search, question answering and knowledge discovery use these knowledge graphs as their knowledge source. Majority of these applications have a particular domain of interest, hence require only the segment of the Web of data representing that domain (e.g., movie, biomedical, sports). In fact, leveraging the entire Web of data for a domain-specific application is not only computationally intensive, but also the irrelevant portion negatively impact the accuracy of the application. Hence, finding the relevant portion of the Web of data for domain-specific applications has become a paramount issue. Identifying the relevant portion of the Web of data consists of two sub-tasks; 1) find the relevant datasets that contain knowledge on the domain of interest, and 2) extract the subgraph representing domain of interest from the knowledge graphs that represent multiple domains (e.g., DBpedia, YAGO, Freebase). In this talk, I will discuss both data-driven and knowledge-driven approaches to solve these two sub-tasks. The domain-specific subgraphs extracted by our approach were 80% less in size in terms of the number of paths compared to original KG and resulted in more than tenfold reduction of required computational time for domain-specific tasks, yet produced better accuracy on domain-specific applications. We believe that this work can significantly contribute for utilizing knowledge graphs for domain-specific applications, specially with the explosive growth in the creation of knowledge graphs.
Federated Search: The Good, The Bad And The Uglydorishelfer
Presented at the SLA 2007 Annual Conference in Denver, CO to the Science and Technology Division (Sci-Tech) on a program entitled: "Federated Searching: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly." Based on an article in Searcher and with additional contributions from Kathy Dabbour and Lynn Lampert on user and librarian assessment of Federated Searching.
Bridging the Gap: Encouraging Engagement with Library Services and TechnologiesTed Lin (林泰宏)
This file is from OCLC. For embedding into a blog post, I upload it to slideshare.
Sorce: http://www.oclc.org/en-US/events/2013/CollectiveInsightSeries/CollectiveInsight_LA_Region_131015.html
Open Access and Research Communication: The Perspective of Force11Maryann Martone
Presentation at the National Federation of Advanced Information Services Workshop: Open Access to Published Research: Current Status and Future Directions, Philadelphia, PA USA November 22, 2013
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at the Document Freedom Day 2014, during the activities organized by the Oficina de Software Libre de la Universidad de Granada (26th March).
I have included some new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I will present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at my home institution (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC) in a scientific seminar (14 June 2013).
I have included some new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I will present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
Responding to Project Information Literacy 2012 workplace study. What are instruction librarians doing to help students with the social side of research?
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Opening Keynote for the 2019 STC Technical Communication Summit in Denver, Colorado by Peter Morville. Transcript is available at https://semanticstudios.com/tomorrows-architects/
Hello everyone! I am thrilled to present my latest portfolio on LinkedIn, marking the culmination of my architectural journey thus far. Over the span of five years, I've been fortunate to acquire a wealth of knowledge under the guidance of esteemed professors and industry mentors. From rigorous academic pursuits to practical engagements, each experience has contributed to my growth and refinement as an architecture student. This portfolio not only showcases my projects but also underscores my attention to detail and to innovative architecture as a profession.
Technoblade The Legacy of a Minecraft Legend.Techno Merch
Technoblade, born Alex on June 1, 1999, was a legendary Minecraft YouTuber known for his sharp wit and exceptional PvP skills. Starting his channel in 2013, he gained nearly 11 million subscribers. His private battle with metastatic sarcoma ended in June 2022, but his enduring legacy continues to inspire millions.
Transforming Brand Perception and Boosting Profitabilityaaryangarg12
In today's digital era, the dynamics of brand perception, consumer behavior, and profitability have been profoundly reshaped by the synergy of branding, social media, and website design. This research paper investigates the transformative power of these elements in influencing how individuals perceive brands and products and how this transformation can be harnessed to drive sales and profitability for businesses.
Through an exploration of brand psychology and consumer behavior, this study sheds light on the intricate ways in which effective branding strategies, strategic social media engagement, and user-centric website design contribute to altering consumers' perceptions. We delve into the principles that underlie successful brand transformations, examining how visual identity, messaging, and storytelling can captivate and resonate with target audiences.
Methodologically, this research employs a comprehensive approach, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses. Real-world case studies illustrate the impact of branding, social media campaigns, and website redesigns on consumer perception, sales figures, and profitability. We assess the various metrics, including brand awareness, customer engagement, conversion rates, and revenue growth, to measure the effectiveness of these strategies.
The results underscore the pivotal role of cohesive branding, social media influence, and website usability in shaping positive brand perceptions, influencing consumer decisions, and ultimately bolstering sales and profitability. This paper provides actionable insights and strategic recommendations for businesses seeking to leverage branding, social media, and website design as potent tools to enhance their market position and financial success.
Storytelling For The Web: Integrate Storytelling in your Design ProcessChiara Aliotta
In this slides I explain how I have used storytelling techniques to elevate websites and brands and create memorable user experiences. You can discover practical tips as I showcase the elements of good storytelling and its applied to some examples of diverse brands/projects..
Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
11. Fragmentation
Fragmentation into multiple
sites, domains, and identities is
clearly a major problem. Users
don’t know which site to visit
for which purpose.
Findability
Users can’t find what they need
from the home page, but most
users don’t come through the
front door. They enter via a web
search or a deep link, and are
confused by what they find.
Even worse, most never use the
Library, because its resources
aren’t easily findable.
12. Web Strategy
Web
1. One Library
2. Core Areas
Online
Onsite
Library
Congress
(about/for)
National
Library
Copyright
Hierarchy
3. Network Intelligence
top-down
+
Network
bottom-up
12
15. Search is a Complex, Adaptive System
Goals
Psychology
Behavior
Interaction
Affordances
Language
Features
Technology
Algorithms
Indexing
Structure
Metadata
Tools
Process
Incentives
Interface
Query
Results
Engine
Content
Users
Source: Search Patterns (2010)
Creators
15
16. “Give me a fulcrum and a place to stand,
and I will move the world.” —Archimedes
Portal
Dis
t
ou
Ab
Brand
Paths
Patterns
Incentives
co
ve
ry
Users
Find
Search
Ask
Objects
Federated
Faceted
Fast
Goal
Gateway
Collection
Browse
Findable
Social
16
23. “When I was playing baseball, most of
the time I wasn’t playing full-scale,
four bases, nine innings. I was playing
a perfectly suitable junior version of
the game...But when I was studying
those shards of math and history, I
wasn’t playing a junior version of
anything. It was like batting practice
without knowing the whole game.
Why would anyone want to do that?”
23
25. The MOOCs must first compete
with nonconsumption by
meeting demand outside the
schools (e.g., developing countries,
home-schooling) and then within
(e.g., letting students take courses
not offered by their district).
Later, this self-paced, studentcentered model may gain
sufficient momentum to become
the dominant paradigm.
25
28. Regardless of all the time and effort libraries put
into providing a variety of research tools and
resources on their websites, the literature suggests
that students still prefer to start their research
using Google or some other form of search engine.
It is clear that there is an overwhelming preference
for easy to use, familiar search tools that
transcend education level, discipline of study, and
student demographics.
Discovery Layers and the Distance Student
Jessica Mussell (2012)
28
29. Strengths
• Fast, easy, familiar
• Cross-disciplinary searching
• Links to citing and related articles
29
30. Weaknesses
• No “advanced search” functionality
• Limited, inaccurate metadata
• Inconsistent coverage across disciplines
• No transparency (coverage, algorithms, usage, monetization)
• Not customizable or interoperable
30
31. Information Literacy
Employers claimed that college hires rarely conducted the
thorough research required of them in the workplace.
At worst, some college hires solved problems with a
lightning quick Google search, a scan of the first couple of
pages of results, and a linear answer finding approach.
“I had a new graduate hire who only searched for papers
on Google. I said, you’re missing things, you need to use
PubMed, and he responded, ‘Well, I did this quick search,
and that’s what I got.’ But that’s not good enough.”
Project Information Literacy: Learning Curve by Alison J. Head (2012)
31
32. “The academic library is increasingly being disintermediated from the
discovery process, risking irrelevance in one of its core functional areas.”
Faculty rate importance of library roles
Key Strategic Insights for Libraries, Publishers, and Societies by Roger C. Schonfeld (2010)
32
38. Gross and Sheridan conducted a usability study
that examined how Summon (“web-scale discovery”)
was used for common library search tasks.
Summon was positioned as the primary search
box on the library’s home page for the study.
They found that the single search box was
employed for 80% of the assigned tasks.
How Users Search the Library from a Single Search Box
Lown, Sierra, Boyer (2013)
38
39. Use of full-text online content dramatically
increased in the year following implementation.
Librarians found they could focus instruction
less on choosing a database or catalog and more
on refining a search, research as an iterative
process, and other high level search skills.
The Impact of Serial Solutions’ Summon on
Information Literacy Instruction
Stephanie Buck and Margaret Mellinger (2011)
39
40. Origin
Google
Google Scholar
Search as a Service
Source
Catalog (Owned)
Databases (Licensed)
Library Portal
Apps via API
University Website
Institutional Repository
Individual Library
HathiTrust (Shared Repository)
Borrow Direct (Ivy League)
Subject (LibGuide)
Faculty (Profile, Publications)
Course (Course Pack, LMS)
WorldCat (Libraries Worldwide)
Web (Free, Fee)
Portal (Library Facilities, Services)
* source may be path or destination
Resource (Article, Book)
40
41. 63% didn’t use any Internet
resources, other than the Guide,
to complete their assignment.
Embedding LibGuides into
Course Management Systems
Stephanie Brown (2012)
Search
GO
History of Science: Nature on Display
Embeddable
Search Widget
41
42. Artifacts
Visible organizational
structures and processes
(hard to decipher)
Espoused
Values
Strategies, goals,
philosophies, justifications
Underlying
Assumptions
Unconscious, taken for
granted beliefs, perceptions,
thoughts, feelings
(source of values, action)
Three Levels of Culture
42
47. “70 percent of humans experience
severe back pain…and in the U.S.
this results in tens of thousands of
surgeries each year.”
“There’s a secret about MRIs and
back pain: the most common
problems physicians see on MRI
and attribute to back pain –
herniated, ruptured, and bulging
discs – are seen almost as
commonly on MRIs of healthy
people without back pain.”
47
48. Why is Medicine a Mess?
•
Our minds/bodies are complex.
•
Patients want a quick fix.
•
Doctors hate saying: “I don’t know.”
•
The AMA is an advocacy group.
•
Relentless and insidious advertising.
•
Industry-funded research.
•
$2.7 trillion per year.
48
49. “Our government is corrupt. Not
corrupt in any criminal sense.
But corrupt in a perfectly legal
sense: special interests bend the
levers of power to benefit them at
the expense of the rest of us.”
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to
one who is striking at the root.” Henry David Thoreau
49
51. “It is now my suggestion that many
people may not want information,
and that they will avoid using a
system precisely because it gives
them information…If you have
information, you must first read it…
You must then try to understand
it…Understanding the information
may show that your work was
wrong, or may show that your work
was needless…Thus not having and
Calvin Mooers (1959)
not using information can often
lead to less trouble and pain than
having and using it.”
The limits of information
51
52. “We shape our buildings. Thereafter, they shape us.”
52
53. The order of food influences choice by as much as 25 percent.
53
55. Some habits have
the power to start
a chain reaction.
“Success doesn’t depend on
getting every single thing
right, but instead relies on
identifying a few key
priorities and fashioning
them into powerful levers.”
55
56. “Willpower is the single most
important keystone
habit for
individual success.”
56
57. Paul O’Neil as CEO of Alcoa
“I want to talk to you about worker
safety…I intend to make Alcoa the
safest company in America.
I intend to go for zero injuries.”
“We killed this man. It’s my failure of
leadership. I
caused his death.
And it’s the failure of all of you in the
chain of command.”
57
58. “A culture of generosity.”
Josie Parker, Ann Arbor District Library
58
60. “A library, like a national park, teaches us that we all benefit
when our most valuable treasures are held in common.”
Peter Morville, Inspiration Architecture
60
64. “A library outranks
any other one thing a
community can do to
benefit its people. It is
a never failing spring
in the desert.”
Andrew Carnegie
(1889)
64
65. “Too many people think that we don’t need libraries
when we have the Internet.” John Palfrey, DPLA (2012)
65
67. “When we try to pick out anything
by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the universe.”
John Muir
IA Therefore I Am
Inspiration Architecture by Peter Morville
67