Archiving a $109 million library renovation project

Stupendous
"Stupendous". Not a word I see every day. But it was a word used recently by Scott Bennett, a well known library design consultant, to describe The Ohio State University's newly renovated main library, writes Scott Carlson in a Chronicle blog posting.

After all, it wasn't a floppy
When is an anachronism not an anachronism? During the opening minutes of a recent presentation I attended I was struck, negatively, by an image of the first generation Kindle circa 2007 as a representation of today’s library environment. First impressions 'are everything' but sometimes they may be wrong. I reacted to what I felt was a noticeably dated image of technology.  Of course, the fact that I am still pondering this could have been a subtle and succinct way to get across one of the challenges/opportunities of today’s library environment, but somehow I doubt this was the speaker’s plan. And as I think on this further maybe my