#lbraries

[geargab]

[gov-info]

The Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort  Leavenworth, Kansas, is  an open source research  organization of the U.S. Army.  Founded as the Soviet  Army Studies Office in 1986, it was an innovative program that brought together  military specialists and civilian academics to focus on military and security  topics derived from unclassified,   foreign media. The results were  unclassified articles and papers that   provided new understandings and broad access to information from a base of expertise in the U.S. Army, Department of Defense, and foreign and U.S. defense communities and universities.

[thegoodfuture]

In an environment where stockpiles of information can be integrated into a computer chip and seemingly infinite information is a click away online, patrons will visit libraries to make sense of it all. “Having too much is worse than not enough,” Dawson said. “Librarians will serve as a guide to resources and help people find relevant information. Filing and validating information will be one of the most important skills of our future.”

In the future libraries may die, but they will be reborn | Trends in the Living Networks

Good comment by my friend and colleague Ross Dawson. It's all about CURATION and Sense-Making not just floods of data.