Happenings in the back rooms of research libraries

Libraries are noisy places these days: not for what goes on in the reading rooms, but for what goes on in the back rooms and admin offices, where our times are full of exciting and sometimes controversial possibilities. This blog will report intermittently some of the things that cross my desk as Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs at Yale. From this wealth of traffic, I'll select the postings and messages and announcements that seem to me most provocative, that point ahead in interesting ways, or that need real thinking in order to make them happen. At every point, comments from readers will be welcome, and I hope that from our mutual contribution of time and thought, some useful discussions will occur.

Ann Okerson/Yale University Library