Cooperation is Still Bothering Me
September 16th, 2004Even though I wrote yesterday that I’ll probably bypass the subject of cooperation for my book proposal, it is still nagging the heck out of me. Cooperation has been written about extensively in the library literature (There is an LC subject headings for it), but I wonder if I would be doing my readers a disservice by not discussing it as an outcrop of social networking.
This internal nagging continued today after posting an article entitled, The Power of Partnering: The Cooperative Creation of Digital Collections to ResourceShelf. I’m now wondering if I can touch upon cooperation within the group dynamics section of the soon-to-be-proposed book. I definitely want to write about groups as they are the obvious end-result of networks, and I think that cooperation fits in here, but I think that I have to read more. I have a few books on interlibrary loan (Yes, I’ve noted the irony) on the topic that I have to peruse before making a decision.
Today, I picked up Magic and Hypersystems: Constructing the Information-Sharing Library, by Harold Billings. It should be an interesting read.