Greener Works
A Collection of Student/Alumni Work Through The Other Library
ALL HAIL THE “GEO”DUCK! 
Betsy’s words on her work: “A “Geo” emphasized geoduck for the website my class is working on.”
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Thank you, Betsy, for our first post.
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love the haiku
Passage we used for the white board – from Glut by Alex Wright:
“Today, if you walk into almost any library, you will find what is still, at its core, a nineteenth-century institution. The primary feature of most libraries is still a set of long shelves populated by industrially printed books, organized according to a proscribed hierarchical system of call numbers, maintained by specially trained workers laboring in a highly regimented organizational system. The old card catalog may have given way to computer terminals, but the underlying organizational and ontological structures of the modern library have hardly changed at all. Librarians still follow cataloging practices that originated in the 1850s; library organizations are notoriously topdown, hierarchical, and process-oriented operations. And like steel mills, factories, secondary schools, and other institutional offspring of the nineteenth century, libraries are struggling to reinvent themselves in a postindustrial age.”
Notes on leaving the 19th century behind -
* from long shelves to conversation spaces w/ secure wifi
* from call numbers to conceptual search techniques that include filter bubble escape hatch
* from specially trained works (reference librarians) to didactic mentors
* from strict organizational hierarchies to flattened networks
[...] C. is a current student at the Evergreen State College. She submitted her first work (The “Geo”Duck on January 20th of 2012. Her interests include, “Reading, Internet, [and] Cooking [...]