The Archive at the Edge of the Network On digital equity, the discomfort of balance, and what special collections owe to the communities that made them. Digital equity and community networks felt, at first glance, like the domain of public librarianship. Important and urgent work, but not quite park of my work. I work in […]
Entries from June 2026
June 22, 2026
Assignment X: The User Was Never Broken, They Were Waiting to Be Asked
When I read about Karen Schneider’s original argument from her blog post “The User Is Not Broken” that libraries should think of themselves as a service and not a format, it really resonated with me (Kenney, 2014). It is such a simple concept and statement and yet it is almost too simple. Regardless of its […]