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Maintained by William Denton, Web Librarian at York University. Suggestions and comments welcome at wtd@pobox.com.


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One Big Library

Posted by: William Denton, 4 February 2009 9:56 pm
Categories: Off-Topic

I gave a talk last Friday at the Ontario Library Association 2009 Super Conference with York University music cataloguer Stacy Allison Cassin: One Big Library.

We explain our vision of the One Big Library (inspired by Wendy Newman and Dan Chudnov) and how Christopher Alexander’s idea of pattern languages can help us build it. We end with three things we want people to do:

  1. Live and work in the One Big Library.
  2. Build the library pattern language.
  3. Help people build, manage, and share their personal branches of the One Big Library.