{"id":43870,"date":"2019-10-28T01:09:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T01:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/?p=43870"},"modified":"2024-03-04T13:17:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T21:17:35","slug":"will-libraries-act-1978-and-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/will-libraries-act-1978-and-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Will libraries act? 1978 and 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43871\" src=\"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-27-at-5.51.17-PM-300x130.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-27-at-5.51.17-PM-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-27-at-5.51.17-PM.png 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1978, California passed Proposition 13, which began the defunding of many public services, including libraries.\u00a0 It was the beginning of what was branded right away as the Tax Revolt.\u00a0\u00a0<em>The journal of academic librarianship\u00a0<\/em>understood it right away.\u00a0 An editorial by RMD in the July issue of that year referring to librarians said, &#8220;They must sell libraries to their communities.&#8221;\u00a0 After what was a stirring call to action, librarians did not act to sell libraries to their communities nor do anything else recommended in the article.\u00a0 The trend of defunding went nationwide and continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p>At last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WPRYUtq22OE\">Library 2.0 conference, Ravi Singh<\/a> of Demco talked about the potential of using Blockchain to build networks.\u00a0 He pointed out that if libraries act, they can build their own network and verify their own transactions without third parties.<\/p>\n<p>In the background of this sentiment is the fact that OCLC, the third party, began as a cooperative and remains one.\u00a0 This is in spite of what many regard as corporate customer service and conduct, complete with layoffs in 2010 and again in 2015.\u00a0 While membership can be defined in many ways, this cooperative does not even inspire the vaguest sense of belonging one might feel with Costco or Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n<p>The questions remain.\u00a0 Will we act?\u00a0 If we do not act to be treated as members, will we act to build our own networks?\u00a0 Is the Chilean Blockchain network the future of libraries or a one-off?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Back in 1978, California passed Proposition 13, which began the defunding of many public services, including libraries.\u00a0 It was the beginning of what was branded right away as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,29],"tags":[88,85,91,9,38,90,37,86,89,87],"class_list":{"0":"post-43870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blockchain","7":"category-library-2-018","8":"tag-88","9":"tag-action","10":"tag-amazon-prime","11":"tag-blockchain","12":"tag-chile","13":"tag-costco","14":"tag-libraries","15":"tag-oclc","16":"tag-proposition-13","17":"tag-tax-revolt","18":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45137,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43870\/revisions\/45137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}