Out+of+the+Box


 * Do we actually need an LMS?**


 * Video: Metadata**

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 * Book: [|Everything is Miscellaneous]**

> Weinberger (fellow, Berkman Ctr. for the Internet & Society, Harvard Law Sch.; Small Pieces Loosely Joined ) analyzes the Internet's impact on the way we look at the organization of information. As he sees it, the order of things, with the shift from the physical to the digital, is changing: in the physical world, everything had its own place; in the digital world, everything is miscellaneous, fitting into multiple categories. Weinberger describes and assesses the traditional ways of organizing information, including the examples of Dewey, Linnaeus, and Ranganathan, and then moves on to the new order including online digital arrangements of archival photographs from the Bettman Archive to the lists and categories of books and other products on Amazon.com. This thought-provoking book allows readers to step back and take a look at how the digital world impacts how they are and will be looking at arrangements of objects and information. Highly recommended to students and researchers of business, social sciences, education, and library science. It adds another dimension to the latter field and should be recommended reading for its students and faculty.—Lucy Heckman, St. John's Univ. Lib., Jamaica, NY


 * Video: Everything is Miscellaneous Google Talk**

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