Growing up in India, I celebrated a lot of festivals Pongal , Ugadi , Holi , Dussera , Diwali. and many others During these festivals special dishes were made, we wore new clothes. We looked forward to other festivals. Friends who celebrated other festivals like Ramzan shared their food and sweets. We look forward to eating the flavorful Biriyani or Hyderabadi Haleem Also exciting was when friends who celebrated Christmas, shared with us cakes and Plum pudding. Today, living in the US, love the period at the end of the year where people of all faiths and religions celebrate the holidays as Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and of course as a general term "Holidays". We have a nice Christmas "holiday" tree, the kids enjoy looking forward to Santa's visit and open their presents on Christmas Day. You have to share festivals and appreciate every opportunity to celebrate. What ever you are celebrating this season, Happy Hol...
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The SI 2.0 conference seems to assume that LOC digitization and flickr Commons projects are unmixed successes.
Digitalization of SI collections is already diverting budget from research and collections management; assuming the public can blunder into the collections without huge expenses in dollars and staff time is, to say the least, naive.
It's not like curators and informed lay enthusiasts in each field don't already interact; perhaps some invitation-only wikis could help there. The problem is that of the two elements of the SI mission, "...increase and diffusion of knowledge...," the boring old "increase of knowledge" has become subservient to "diffusion" of free entertainment.
If the quality and authority of SI research is compromised, the value of the knowledge it disseminates -- and even its value as an edu-tainment attraction, co-marketing brand, and corporate donation-magnet -- will decrease.
That said, sorry I missed the meeting. Looked like fun.