Re: In praise of reckless enthusiasm

["B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>]

I think this is the best "Joe Esposito piece" that I have read. 
Bernie Sloan

--- On Sun, 1/3/10, Terry Ehling <ehling@cornell.edu> wrote:

From: Terry Ehling <ehling@cornell.edu>
Subject: In praise of reckless enthusiasm
To: "liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu" <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 7:04 PM

Joe Esposito endorses unruly expectations and reckless 
enthusiasm:

http://bit.ly/5DXw3p

"It appears to be the rule that a reckless investment to preserve 
a practice or institution ultimately yields very little in the 
way of serendipitous outcomes, but crazy projects designed to 
bring new capacity on board may come to delight us all.

"[M]y personal reckless enthusiasm: to build infrastructure that 
enables an unmediated, direct connection between scholars and 
scholarly materials. For example, there is a huge need for a new 
order of bibliographical records, which are transparent to 
end-users and easily integrated into machine-to-machine 
communications. Such records will be very expensive to create; no 
one knows how they will ultimately earn their keep."

terry ehling
scholarly communications strategist
library information technologies
project euclid | cornell university library