id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 2161 Cyzyk, Mark Editorial Board Thoughts: Doesn't Work 2012-06-12 3 .pdf application/pdf 1283 89 66 About fifteen years ago I had two students from Germany working for me, Jens and Andreas. would send them out to fix things around the library, and they would dutifully report back with public stations after all—but staff workstations must be working at all times. It now occurs to me, though, that this notion of "work" is precisely the point of technology, and Mark Cyzyk (mcyzyk@jhu.edu) is Scholarly Communication Architect in The Sheridan Libraries, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARIES | JUNE 2012 4 As such, it has by its very nature practical outcomes in the world: technology works in the world. protocols are all for naught if the final product of our labor, at the end of the day, doesn't work. "dismal." Significant portions of the library budget are put toward technology each year, and as Making it work is Job One for the technologist in the library. Information Technology and Libraries 30, no. ./cache/2161.pdf ./txt/2161.txt