http://www.clayfox.com/2006/01/10/patronage/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:30:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.clayfox.com/2006/01/10/patronage/#comment-11902 Clayfox » Changing the subject Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:29:33 +0000 http://www.clayfox.com/2006/01/10/patronage/#comment-11902 [...] more collaborative relationship with users of the objects they collect. Those ‘users’ (or patrons?) are able to participate in the detective work that is so often at the heart of subject [...] [...] more collaborative relationship with users of the objects they collect. Those ‘users’ (or patrons?) are able to participate in the detective work that is so often at the heart of subject [...]

]]> http://www.clayfox.com/2006/01/10/patronage/#comment-2370 Clayfox » LibraryThings Thu, 18 May 2006 16:03:53 +0000 http://www.clayfox.com/2006/01/10/patronage/#comment-2370 [...] All this driven by Tim Spalding, a web developer, not a librarian. Or is he? Would you settle for patron? [...] [...] All this driven by Tim Spalding, a web developer, not a librarian. Or is he? Would you settle for patron? [...]

]]> http://www.clayfox.com/2006/01/10/patronage/#comment-1159 Clayfox » Sticking around Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:22:02 +0000 http://www.clayfox.com/2006/01/10/patronage/#comment-1159 [...] Check out what’s new at that flagship of Library 2.0-ness — that plugged-in to plug-ins, blessed by superpatrons, interactively inventive Ann Arbor District Library: card catalogs! [...] [...] Check out what’s new at that flagship of Library 2.0-ness — that plugged-in to plug-ins, blessed by superpatrons, interactively inventive Ann Arbor District Library: card catalogs! [...]

]]> http://www.clayfox.com/2006/01/10/patronage/#comment-1141 Clayfox » 2.0 Library 2.0 lists Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:27:07 +0000 http://www.clayfox.com/2006/01/10/patronage/#comment-1141 [...] Let Users Establish and Build On Their Reputations - hello, superpatron [...] [...] Let Users Establish and Build On Their Reputations - hello, superpatron [...]

]]> http://www.clayfox.com/2006/01/10/patronage/#comment-1051 Clayfox » Monocles, manacles, and yes, The New Yorker Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:51:06 +0000 http://www.clayfox.com/2006/01/10/patronage/#comment-1051 [...] I couldn’t quite square this possessive exultation with the knowledge that any decent library offers its patrons access to an infinitely wider array of human expression and documentation, also just a few keystrokes away. I ended up chalking it up to the unique aura of The New Yorker — the illusions it has so longed sustained of subjectivity, possession, discrimination, privilege — an aura that had me maintaining my subscription even through the Tina years. Somehow, it seemed right that this content would be walled off from Proquestian aggregation, left a world unto itself and thus bestowed. [...] [...] I couldn’t quite square this possessive exultation with the knowledge that any decent library offers its patrons access to an infinitely wider array of human expression and documentation, also just a few keystrokes away. I ended up chalking it up to the unique aura of The New Yorker — the illusions it has so longed sustained of subjectivity, possession, discrimination, privilege — an aura that had me maintaining my subscription even through the Tina years. Somehow, it seemed right that this content would be walled off from Proquestian aggregation, left a world unto itself and thus bestowed. [...]

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