the system redressed - containers :: content

The System RedressedContainers :: Content

John BlybergDarien LibraryComputers in Libraries 20084/8/2008

“The overall name of these interrelated structures is system. The motorcycle is a system. A real system ...There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. That's all a motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel ... the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.”

- Robert PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

User ContentLibrary

AcquisitionDistribution

Physical Digital

The Library as Content Provider

Fiction, Non-fiction,music, movies, etc..

Research DB Articles,Audiobooks, music.

The Library as Content Creator(Acquisition to Production)

Library

Digital

UsersStaff

PhysicalP.O.D.

The container is irrelevant

The OPAC is a reflectionof the health of the system

Libraries are natural systems

Computer networks are emergent

The future is unpredictable

The container is fallible

The container is temporary

Containers can be organized

Containers need to be portable

Organization requires the enterprise

The mission remains the same

Thank You!

email: jblyberg@darienlibrary.orgslides: blyberg.net/files