http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/01/14/living-digital-symposium-part-1.html shifting libraries at the speed of byte Mon, 07 May 2012 16:14:10 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/01/14/living-digital-symposium-part-1.html/comment-page-1#comment-18944 tom matrullo Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:55:34 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/?p=1295#comment-18944 There are many important and relevant questions here pertaining to the shift from atoms to bits, dominant centers to open networks. I believe your mention of JSTOR at the end misses another significant factor: the paywall that preempts, or displaces, questions of network from general concerns to the specialized world of institutional garden walls. It continually astonishes me that celebrants of networked, open systems placidly allow JSTOR (and its partner academic journal publishers) to use digitization to design and protect intentional artificial scarcity. When the scarcity is scarcity of knowledge - knowledge produced by scholars supported by taxpayers - the logic of the model becomes simply laughable. There are many important and relevant questions here pertaining to the shift from atoms to bits, dominant centers to open networks. I believe your mention of JSTOR at the end misses another significant factor: the paywall that preempts, or displaces, questions of network from general concerns to the specialized world of institutional garden walls. It continually astonishes me that celebrants of networked, open systems placidly allow JSTOR (and its partner academic journal publishers) to use digitization to design and protect intentional artificial scarcity. When the scarcity is scarcity of knowledge — knowledge produced by scholars supported by taxpayers — the logic of the model becomes simply laughable.

]]> http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/01/14/living-digital-symposium-part-1.html/comment-page-1#comment-18939 Rob Darrow Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:41:53 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/?p=1295#comment-18939 Great summary of these talks. Felt like I was there in person because of how well you captured the essence of what was said! Great summary of these talks. Felt like I was there in person because of how well you captured the essence of what was said!

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