I lost the election by 3 votes. That’s fine with me. All the other candidates were well-qualified, and I ran mainly to show my support for the library.

I have a deep love and affection for libraries and librarians, and have written many posts about both. This is why whenever I speak of my volunteer efforts I say, “I want to help educators AND librarians in their vital mission.”

Most people don’t appreciate that librarians are both educators and the guardians of our past.

I have recently taken a professional interest. The Internet is clearly the largest collection of organized information yet created, and so it the world’s largest library. Google is clearly its librarian.

That Google is a private company based on advertizing is not a problem.

What IS a problem is that, through no fault of its own, Google, by the success of its search technology, has rendered much of the Science of Libraries obsolete.

It is thus now necessary to create a new Science of Libraries so that we can best build Libraries of Science, almost all of which will be digital and distibuted over the internet.

This can only happen with the help of many people from the computer industry, both in hardware and software, and I have volunteered to be one of them.

thanks,dave