cool….
George Wheeler, Director of Conservation, Columbia University also made the connection (see previous date posting) between AIC membership rejection of professional certification and underlying mismatch of certification and the actions of practice. We should now “view the pursuit of a certification process not as a failed endeavor but the beginning of a new kind of conversation about definition, identity, and creation of a more intimate connection between thought and action, theory and practice in conservation.”
Another wise emeritus at AIC leaned over to remark that a research paper was so effective “at reducing variables that they were diminished to zero”. So now we must look open ocean and particularly at the specialty of library collection preservation where an autonomous certifying program of instruction has twice encountered an obstacle to sustainability.
a wrap
The action that separated orality from literacy was not the writing of language because this act was for a long time only a prompt for recitation. The transformational act was the folding of the writing substrate. Arbitrarily folding up the papyrus was the template for packet electronic delivery.
beyond slippery slope
“When it comes to the digital networks that now surround us, the fact is that most us can’t just GTFO, even if we wanted to. The sooner we move beyond the addiction metaphor, the sooner we’ll be able to see, with some clarity and honesty, the extent and implications of our dependency on our networked computing and media devices. What happens to the human self as it comes to experience more and more of the world, and of life, through the mediation of the screen?” Nicholas Carr
Potent postings over at Rough Type just now….don’t abstain the screen for the moment.
milwaukee
Powerpoint has enabled us to picture text in ways not possible with Carousel slides. The illustrations and graphics are frequently subverted to captions while the white text does the talking. I wish I knew the plugin to post my own Powerpoint in Word Press, but let me just say I will soon try to post my talk here.
It was a great meeting. I just don’t understand how ALA and AIC meetings are suddenly so explosively exciting. I was under an impression that real meetings were obsolete.
common knowledge
The array of student diversity is a fractal of the array of teaching diversity which is a fractal of the array preservation practice diversity which is a fractal of domains of documentary record transmission and that is a fractal of a dynamic of cultural sustainability. With fractal visualization any level provides the same complexity as any other. Trajectories between levels are products of choice and exclusion that present a democracy of opportunity.