Comments on: LIS768 Reading List

By: Kristen M

Kristen M — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:02:58 +0000

I would add Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Other Dies by Chip & Dan Heath. A great text to get at the core of how libraries can market, technology, events, ideas etc. and make sure they are ingrained in their community.

By: DigitalNatives

DigitalNatives — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:44:25 +0000

We’re delighted that you chose to add “Born Digital” to your reading list! If any students in the course review BD and the review goes online somewhere we’d be happy to link to it in order to build a conversational bridge and enrich the dialogue on digital natives. Also: feel free to explore and contribute to the Digital Native wiki at: http://www.digitalnative.org.

Cheers!

By: carlos9900

carlos9900 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:17:06 +0000

I agree with Melissa Dessent (10 Sep). I think that “Experience Economy” (1999) is superior than “Authencity” (2007). Although it updates a lot of information.

If you’re going to read The World is Flat, you then you have to read “Who’s your City” (Florida, 2008)

By: amanda

amanda — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:29:49 +0000

Surowiecki’s Wisdom of Crowds for sure! Excellent list, Michael.

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By: Michael Sensiba

Michael Sensiba — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:20:15 +0000

I concur with many of the additional suggestions, and have one of my own:

David M. Levy’s Scrolling Forward. It’s a little older than some on the list, but is of high quality (in both prose and thought).

By: PL 40/08 « Plinius

PL 40/08 « Plinius — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:56:59 +0000

[...] interested to see that five of these books were also included in Michael Stephens thirty-five item reading list for his class on Library 2.0 and Social Networking [...]

By: Chris O.

Chris O. — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:55:19 +0000

Ok, looking a little more closely at the list, I’m not sure that the guy whose theories ruined Hillary Clinton’s campaign should be given much credence.

By: Chris O.

Chris O. — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:39:42 +0000

I am calling dibs on Zittrain.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:00:47 +0000

I’d recommend “Cult of the Amateur” by Keen as well.

By: Buzzy

Buzzy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:58:47 +0000

What about Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds and Putnam’s Bowling Alone?

By: George Bergstrom

George Bergstrom — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:27:24 +0000

To complement The Long Tail, you might want to include:

Blue ocean strategy: how to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim, Rene?e Mauborgne.

I have not read it myself, but the ENTR 200 class here (Purdue University) reads both it and The Long Tail… you might see if your students are inspired to make the library into an uncontested space!

-George

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:20:12 +0000

What about Taleb’s the Black Swan? That one got some traction last year.

By: Sarah Cohen

Sarah Cohen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:04:06 +0000

Terrific list. A few favorites that are missing though:
Negroponte’s “Being Digital”
Tracy Kidder’s “The Sould of a New Machine”
Jarice Hansen’s “24/7″

And while a little bit of a stretch, my students have loved reading “Feed” by M.T. Anderson, which fits very well with Clive Thompson’s article in this week’s NYT Magazine on digital intimacy and ambient awareness.

By: Corrine Syster

Corrine Syster — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:50:43 +0000

Andrew Keen’s “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture”