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by jean_claude
3645 days ago
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While there may be some power-mad librarians out there in terms of 'there will be silence in the library!', they curate the library's collection for many reasons: to meet the requirements of stakeholders, to meet the needs and shifting interests of the community, to make room for new material... Really, there are a whole host of reasons for deaccession of library materials that include financial, space, and other concerns that hit the bottom line. The great thing about technology is we have the ability to collect, classify, add metadata[1], and make all human knowledge accessible to everyone. If only insanely long copyrights and restrictions on scanning and lending copyrighted works were not in the way. [1] This is not really something a busy librarian has time for, so other methods, such as user-driven tagging and folksonomies[2] are an interesting solution that is being tried. [2] http://interactivearchivist.archivists.org/technologies/tagg... |
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