Feb 3, 2019
Information Commons. The University of Sheffield.
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Information Commons. The University of Sheffield.
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The IC cafe that is supposedly open 24hrs is closed.
My mind hurts. How am I meant to survive without coffee?
Just watched a potential student throw up her hands while touring the library. "This is it? So weird!"
Pull quote: "A TED talk, at this point, is the cultural equivalent of a patent: a private claim to a public concept. With the speaker, himself, becoming the manifestation of the idea. And so: In the name of spreading a concept, the talk ends up narrowing it. Pariser's filter bubble. Anderson's long tail. We talk often about the need for narrative in making abstract concepts relatable to mass audiences; what TED has done so elegantly, though, is to replace narrative in that equation with personality. The relatable idea, TED insists, is the personal idea. It is the performative idea. It is the idea that strides onstage and into a spotlight, ready to become a star."
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The library that never closes is closed
Mid-November now, and as the Forge Press print deadline loomed near, everything was going swimmingly, and we were all set to send our paper to the printers.
But life editing a student newspaper isn't that easy.
Just as we were putting the finishing touches to the news pages, a colleague rushed in to tell us that the university library, otherwise known as the Information Commons, or I.C., has been evacuated and closed.
This is a building that never closes, not even on Christmas Day.
The newsroom was thrown into chaos as we tried to establish what had happened and what we could print in the paper at such a late stage.
Luckily, we managed to establish the most important facts through a combination of reputable and not-so-reputable sources, and Twitter helped us find a fantastic picture to print.
Twitter and Facebook were, like in so many newsrooms up and down the country, fantastic tools to have at our disposal in such a fast developing story, and it won't be the last time that social media plays such a crucial role in gathering all the information we need.
Instead of finding things, how about doing things? How about creating localized collections of our most unique stuff and, more importantly, helping our library users to do the same? Watching the HarperCollins/Overdrive ebook license limitation kerfuffle leads me to imagine a future where libraries gather, produce, and curate content in ways only beginning to be explored that bypass the traditional author to publisher to library to reader model we’ve worked with for decades.
Michael Stephens "Stuck in the Past" (Library Journal)