From BuzzMachine:
Yesterday, Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, told the staff of his newspaper that now “all journalists work for the digital platform” and that they should regard “its demands as preeminent.” [BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » ‘The web is preeminent’]Folks will notice that I occasionally quote from the Guardian here. This is for a couple of reasons, but first among them is that it has really done more than most papers to move fully into a web environment. This is through a variety of mechanisms.
The 'digital platform' is 'preeminent'. The Guardian will be a "24 hour, web-first newspaper". However there are other platforms, including paper.
A parallel is sometimes made between libraries and newspapers in terms of some of the pressures involved in operating in a network environment. I have not seen many statements like this is a library environment though. In this context I was interested to read a paper by David W Lewis, Dean of Libraries at IUPUI, arguing that we should "complete the migration from print to electronic collections" and "retire legacy print collections".
BuzzMachine reference via John Naughton.
David W Lewis reference via ACRLog.
Comments: 1
Lorcan, I remember seeing a talk by David at CNI back in 2004 where he presented a model for library collecting that would accomplish the kind of migration you mention. At the time I didn't think the model would withstand rigorous review but I thought his underlying call for urgent change and a commitment to managing to a different outcome was on the spot.
Here's the link to the ">CNI presentation.