http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/beyond-content-container/ the neverending reference interview of life Fri, 24 May 2013 07:03:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/beyond-content-container/#comment-5132 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:42:05 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/beyond-content-container/#comment-5132 [...] Beyond Content & Container « Agnostic, Maybe. “Content versus container represents a constantly shifting dynamic in which works are judged on the merits of each. It is a “chicken or the egg” riddle for librarians going forward as the number of literacies and mediums continues to expand… [he then proposes adding two more elements to the conversation]  access and venue… placing them in this perspective can lend deeper insights into the changes in information mediums and expression. My hope would be that in plotting materials and services on such a graph that it would allow for better pattern recognition of community preferences and ongoing trends as clusters emerged. Perhaps then a better predictive model for information consumption would emerge, giving librarians better prognostication skills as technology and communication continue to evolve. “ [...]

]]> http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/beyond-content-container/#comment-5130 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:14:29 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/beyond-content-container/#comment-5130 Fundamentally, I like this a lot, as it acknowledges the nuances that the black and white “content vs. container” debate often leaves out. I’d probably tweak it slightly, rotating it 90 degrees counter-clockwise so “Content” is at the bottom, and would label the whole thing, “CONTEXT IS QUEEN!”

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