Ways to Identify and Dismantle Bias In Your Cataloging
Through consistent application of standards, we help our users find and access materials. However, we must apply them critically to make cataloging more accessible.
Principles
What Marie Kondo Can Teach Us About Managing Digital Assets
According to Netflix, its online video series “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” will help homeowners declutter their mess and “choose” joy. Despite its dubious promise and the ire some librarians have shown towards some of its methods, I like Kondo’s approach: it can be adapted and used as a sort of DAM philosophy. I’ve reworked … [Read more…]
Digital Asset Management is a Service-Oriented Profession
Service is one of the central values of a digital asset management. The goal of a DAM professional should be to connect people with the assets they need to do their job. Ranganathan once wrote, a library is “an instrument of universal education, and assembles together and freely distributes all the tools of education and … [Read more…]