Posts Tagged ‘creative desruction’
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Creative Destruction in Libraries: Designing our Future
November 20, 2013 | 9 commentsTags: academic libraries, creative desruction, higher education, liberal arts colleges, makerspaces, saarinen, social mediaIn Brief: Joseph Schumpeter defines creative destruction as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.” As libraries struggle with how to position themselves to thrive in the digital age, how can we balance the traditional elements of librarianship like…