Legal Research

David Weinberger: ?I?ve Got a New Job?

By Steven Matthews

I know this will interest a number of us here at Slaw. From David’s blog post:

I?ve got a new job: I?m co-director of the Harvard Library Lab, a part of Harvard Law School. I?m excited.

The Lab (the name is going to change) was created by John Palfrey a year ago when he became head of the Harvard Law Library (and Vice Dean for Information and Library Resources at the Law School). JP had been executive director of the Berkman Center. The key thing to understand is that the Lab was established by someone with a commitment to openness, collaboration, the importance of libraries, and the goodness of the Web. JP?s short form mission for the Lab is to ?hack libraries? ? in the good sense, of course, of innovating to expose even more of their value. Libraries are the centers of communities of scholars and researchers offline, and they ought to be (or at least inform) the centers of those communities online as well.

Seems like a great fit, and I can’t think of a better advocate for re-thinking Library services.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on August 20, 2010 (boomark / email).