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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
