Sherman,
This is exactly the type of situation that the Assessment Task Force envisioned
when it recommended the organic structure of interest groups. Our
recommendations allow for an interest group to constitute itself with fluidity
and a collapsing of formal hierarchies. Your concern about whether social
computing is ubiquitous (my guess is that's not--yet) would also be satisfied
by the recommended structure insomuch as an interest group can dissolve itself
as easily as it formed.
Mark
> As I think about this panel I'm organizing and the report of the assessment
> task force, a social computing interest group keeps popping into my head.
> Social computing will not stay in nice little boxes along type of library or
> functional lines. A NYU Libraries colleague just got back from the Computers
> in Libraries conference in Arlington and she says there were lots of public
> library folks there. There's probably a reason for that; they're closer to a
> wider variety of users. Anybody else think a Social Computing Interest Group
> would be worthy of establishing? Or is it ubiquitous? You may remember that
> there used to be a Computer Section in ARLIS/NA, as recently as 1997
> according to our friend Google.
>
> Sherman Clarke
> NYU Libraries
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