Editorial: Introspection as Activism, or, Getting Our Houses in Order

Those of us in libraries like to trace our history to Alexandria or to the French governmental system of record-keeping, but the construction of the modern GLAM world is far more recent, almost as new as coding. It has evolved almost as rapidly. And its future is on us, whether we choose to passivel...

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Main Author: Ruth Kitchin Tillman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Code4Lib 2017-01-01
Series:Code4Lib Journal
Online Access:http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/12232
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Summary:Those of us in libraries like to trace our history to Alexandria or to the French governmental system of record-keeping, but the construction of the modern GLAM world is far more recent, almost as new as coding. It has evolved almost as rapidly. And its future is on us, whether we choose to passively accept a status quo others build or to act and grow and develop ourselves and our workplaces.
ISSN:1940-5758