Metadata Update #33 - Responses to Upate #32 and more reflections
It’s been 3 weeks since I posed Update #32. I’ve had a surprising amount email and other feedback since then. Update #32 came as close to going viral as anything I’ll likely ever write…. It got shared on a number of social media sites, including some that were previously unknown to me. There were some interesting discussions to be had. However, most of the comments weren’t posted on my blog but came to me via email, took the form of in-person discussions or were made on social media websites where the post was shared. Of course, the email sent directly to me was by and large highly supportive and/or contained details of similar experiences reported by other librarians. The social media discussions displayed greater variety of opinions. I’ve found the latter to be particularly useful in sorting out the bigger picture of where my own experience fits on the spectrum of what is happening in libraries elsewhere. It’s hard to summarize all of what I read but I can