Collection Development for My Random Life.

Chris at the Library Riot blog picked up on my ditty “the Open Work” which is sort of the philosophy behind this blog (remember when this blog was called OpenWorkLibrary?). You can read about his reaction here.  I have always wanted to expand this into something a bit more formal, but I didn’t want it to simply add to all the fluff already swirling around themes like Library  2.0, “blended librarians”, etc. Anyway, if you got any thoughts on the idea of the library as an “open work”,  please share.

Also if you wanted to know more about me and my research, our library is working on a digital repository of research for campus. Part of that is a feature called SelectWorks which researchers can post information and papers. You can view my profile here.

So I got behind in my Google Reader on all the RSS feeds that dump into my “library folder” (to the tune of 1000+ entires). I tend to use the philosophy of “dying a natural death” in regards to out of control content (this includes the piles on my desk). A natural death is when the materials become so buried or overwhelming that are rendered meaningless and thus become “dead” to me. In those cases, I throw them away or erase them all. If it is important it will come back to me reincarnated as something else.

I am wondering if this is efficient or just lazy?

Any advice on how to keep up with RSS feeds or more importantly, how to catch up with the content you have already culled from the wilds of the internet?

Boy, the layout of my blog went crazy. No matter what I did to try to fix it instead made it worse. Let’s just ignore it and pretend it never happened.