"""Sometimes I believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast"": Outsider naïveté as an asset in the initiation of massive-scale book provision efforts"
Jones, Elisabeth A.
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Title
"""Sometimes I believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast"": Outsider naïveté as an asset in the initiation of massive-scale book provision efforts"
Author(s)
Jones, Elisabeth A.
Issue Date
2013-02
Keyword(s)
libraries
digital libraries
mass digitization
access to information
information services
qualitative data analysis
paradigm shifts
Abstract
Based on preliminary analysis of archival and interview data collected for a larger research project, this paper explores the role of naïveté regarding existing library practice in initiating four massive-scale public book provision efforts: the Boston Public Library, the Carnegie library program, the Google Books Library Project, and the Open Content Alliance. Based on these case examples, it is suggested that such naïveté can be a useful facilitator in the initial phases of such projects – and can sometimes make the difference between their materializing and not materializing – but that in order to succeed, these efforts must eventually draw in others with substantial domain expertise and/or ingenuity.
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