Horizon scanning is a bit like doing a jigsaw you\u2019ve bought from a car boot sale: first of all, it comes in a plastic bag, so there\u2019s no picture to guide you. Secondly, you can see from the myriad sizes of the different pieces that there\u2019s more than one puzzle in there and, thirdly, you know, even as you are handing over your money, that you won\u2019t have all the pieces to complete any one, particular puzzle. [JISC Libraries of the Future | Holding out for a hero: technology, the future and the renaissance of the university librarian.<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Gaynor manages JISC’s TechWatch<\/a>, keeping up with tech trends for libraries.<\/p>\n I’m not quite sure what the library’s “digital underbelly” is. But this sampling of news art<\/a> strikes me as one possible example.<\/p>\n Graphics section of the Chicago Tribune, September 9, 1938<\/p><\/div>\n The Art the Message: The Story Behind the Chicago Tribune Collection<\/a> has the same feel of the behind-the-scenes tour Gaynor Backhouse described: “secret stuff” that only the curators know about. This collection was saved by Janet A. Ginsburg, who edits news aggregator trackernews.net<\/a> and curates a collection of news retrospectives, hosted at her personal site<\/a>.<\/p>\n For access to the physical collection (now known as the Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection of the Michigan State University News Archive) contact MSU Communication professor Lucinda Davenport<\/a>. Images from Janet’s news art exhibit<\/a> can also be seen at Brainpickings<\/a> and (with Portuguese commentary) at Segunda L\u00edngua<\/a>. Found via Janet’s comment<\/a> on Steven Berlin Johnson’s SXSW talk, Old Growth Media And The Future Of News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gaynor Backhouse writes a great post about libraries, holding out for “a guided tour of the library\u2019s digital underbelly”. My favorite part is her metaphor about horizon-scanning: Horizon scanning is a bit like doing a jigsaw you\u2019ve bought from a car boot sale: first of all, it comes in a plastic bag, so there\u2019s no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,12],"tags":[125,129,127,128,126,79],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-and-information-science","category-old-newspapers","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-graphics-section","tag-history-of-journalism","tag-horizon-scanning","tag-janet-a-ginsburg-chicago-tribune-collection-of-the-michigan-state-university-news-archive","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Graphics](\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dillinger.jpg\")
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