{"id":84,"date":"2009-04-09T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caveatquaestor.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/09\/synechdoche"},"modified":"2009-04-09T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T17:13:00","slug":"synechdoche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2009\/04\/synechdoche\/","title":{"rendered":"Synechdoche"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to write about The Darien Statements<\/a>, but I find myself distracted by one point and unable to focus on the whole.<\/p>\n

“As librarians we must:” one section begins (less than grammatically), and below it are bullet points. The one, in particular, that’s got my attention? “Choose wisely what to stop doing.” <\/p>\n

Whoa. <\/p>\n

It resonates on a personal level, certainly, but looking at it as advice for the profession at large, I can’t help thinking of Steve Martin’s “How to be a millionaire without paying taxes” joke. I mean, any advice that begins “choose wisely” is probably not specific enough to be helpful. How<\/em> should we choose? How can we know? Should we leave Second Life because it is clearly not going to be the paradigm-changing phenomenon its creators might have hoped? Or do we keep doing it, as training for the next big technology? How can we know whether text-a-librarian will catch on, unless we try it? Are institutional repositories the big fix we need for scholarly communication and archiving of the scholarly record, or are they a flash in the pan? (Trust me on this: one can find papers that say both. … And I should wrap up this post and get back to my paper.) <\/p>\n

How do you determine what is the “wise” point to give up on any given initiative or technology? <\/p>\n

For that matter, how funny is it that I immediately jumped to technology, as the context in which that question operates? I can think of several others, but I did not, immediately.<\/p>\n

It’s a question worth thinking about and discussing–good on them for bringing it up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to write about The Darien Statements, but I find myself distracted by one point and unable to focus on the whole. “As librarians we must:” one section begins (less than grammatically), and below it are bullet points. The one, in particular, that’s got my attention? “Choose wisely…<\/p>\n

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