Aaron Louie - Blog

… is the library’s website.
So why is there only one person running it?
A certain large local public library system has that one poor systems librarian doing the work of 8 people:

managing the online public access catalog,
handling the integrated library system,
managing the web server,
managing the database vendors and databases,
developing web applications that interface with those databases,
coordinating [...]

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I’ve been pondering lately the apparent contradiction between collegial collaboration and corporate competition. This issue became all the more relevant when I attended the IA Summit this past week. Surrounded by my fellow user experience designers and information architects, many of whom work for my employer’s direct competitors, I suddenly felt the familiar twinge of [...]

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