Librarian's Book Club
The Librarian's Book Club discussion of "The Search" by John Battelle continues:
Chapter 2 starts off with a smart idea: Who, What ,Where, Why, When "and a corollary: who's making the money, and how much?" Good on Battelle for thinking of the profit motive here.
Chapter One has several interesting ideas presented. The author presents a concept called the "Database of Intentions". This database is the aggregate information about what we search for and what we want. The author argues that the "Database of Intentions" is going to be sought out by companies, governments, and people that want money and power. Currently the major online search companies contain the information about the "Datebase of Intentions".
A collection of reviews of our choice for reading this fall:Amazon Has Some Reviews.
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture has been selected as the Librarians' Book Club selection for October - December 2005. To join in the discussion all you need to do is get a copy of the book, read it, and discuss it by posting comments on LISNEWS.Update: 09/26 14:19 EST by B:I'd like to hear ideas on the best way to discuss the book. Should I install a seperate system for the discussions? A message board? Wiki? Email List?
Before LBC was part of LISNEWS I wrote the name like this Librarians' Book Club. I had at least two people email me and say that it should be Librarian's Book Club. When LBC became part of LISNEWS I put the name as Librarian's Book Club.
Someone posted a comment asking whether the name should be Librarians' Book Club. I would like to come to a definitive answer. Can the grammar experts among the group weigh in? The name will either remain the same or be adjusted accordingly. If you have a source for your answer please cite it.
There were five nominations of library related books. Two of the books have been withdrawn by the person that nominated them. This leaves a total of three books to vote on.
The books are:
1) The Tipping Point
2) The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
3) A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
Nominations for the October - December 2005 LISNEWS Book Club are being accepted. To nominate a book just reply to this entry and detail what book you would like to nominate. The selected book can be read by any LISNEWS member that is interested and discussion will take place on the LISNEWS website.
The book selection for July - August 2005 is The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 by Lucien Febvre, Henri-Jean Martin, David Gerard (Translator) Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity.
The Librarian's Book Club is a group to read and discuss books that
are about libraries and the library profession. Every two months the
Librarian's Book Club will select a new book to discuss. All you need
to do is get yourself a copy of the current book. Discussion of the
book will take place on LISNEWS in the Book Club section. (Note:
Although this book club discussion group is focused towards
librarians, we welcome members that are not librarians.)