A few people have emailed me asking about my absence, so here’s a quick note saying hello to everyone. I’ve been off doing fun things, usually involving riding one of my bikes fast, far, or both. For some content, here’s a great comment I found on the MySpace of one of the [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2006
why does library polity create such harsh policy?
16 May 06 – 7:39 pm
Dang! Take a look at Don’t scar on the first cut from Signal vs. noise. Here are a few pull outs:
Policies are codified overreactions to unlikely-to-happen-again situations. A collective punishment for the wrong-doings of a one-off.
The problem with policies are that they compound and eventually add up to the rigidity of bureaucracy [...]
