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The Volumen are a popular band in Missoula, Montana. I wonder if the Missoula Public Library did the same sort of advert except in pimping diamond rings they were pushing books.  I really think this is genius because the Volumen have a lot of fans and it will at least give them pause (it did for me). Are their local celebrities that could do the same thing for your local library? How about Built to Spill for Boise?

Footprints on tables

Silence in rooms

Chairs in corners

The ghosts are buried

everywhere

between every line

in every book

A vein is skewed

For all to none

Corrosion

Crossing

An ice that refuses to melt

But grows drop by drop

Until the air is

pushed out of every

closet and drawer

Until flesh is pressed to soil

quiet and for now

(This is an old one.
I can't remember what meeting this was from or what I was thinking about.
Kind of depressing
I think is the last work poem I have saved up)

I can grasp that organizing information can bring about hidden connections between things, but at the same time can organization of materials also hide information? For example for a long time LC hid nuances of gender and race (it probably still does… ). I wonder if the pre-organization of information ala a library has become to some degree obsolete. With tagging and sorting features of most search engines / databases now the user selects how they would like the material organized. Yes, there still needs to be a framework of organization and meta-data in order to retrieve the information but the final context as to how the organization of the information makes sense is defined by the user.

Do users subconsciously expect this reordering of information to suit their needs, and thus have trouble using a library and its static organization of materials? I wonder…