collection management – Tame Your Assets

What Marie Kondo Can Teach Us About Managing Digital Assets

January 12, 2019 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

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 Preservation Conundrum

February 1, 2013 by Ian Matzen, MLIS Leave a Comment

I just read an interesting journal article in which the author, Uhrich (2012), explored the life and work of Hollis Frampton, a digital video pioneer who taught at the Digital Arts Lab at the State University of New York Buffalo in the late seventies and early eighties. After his sudden death in the mid-eighties, a … [Read more…]