When people speak of economic interactions, they usually refer to the demand/supply model of market economy. There are purchasers (individual consumers and businesses/institutions) and there are providers (businesses/institutions). Individuals do buy entertainment products and they are conceived of value-addition. A willing buyer is paying a willing supplier for a product or commercial service, and the [...]
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The Enjoyment Economy – Theme for the week
Posted in Libraries, Sustainable Economics on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cooperative Library Fund – Take 2
Posted in Libraries, tagged audiobooks, cooperative, film, Libraries, media, progressive foundation on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are three primary features of a cooperative library fund emphasizing the development of library collections. One is a pull approach, of organizing the collection, handling and distribution effort for in-kind contributed materials that libraries serve. The library fund would undertake fundraising and collection efforts in locale by locale to accept donations of books, CD’s, [...]
Cooperative Library Fund
Posted in Libraries on September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In order to fulfill libraries’ great social mission, they need funding. The purchase of materials, construction and maintenance of facilities, staffing, just won’t happen without funding. Personally, I believe that public libraries can operate more efficiently than they have historically, but that is just an improvement, not a comment on how library role and funding [...]
Libraries and Citizenship
Posted in Libraries on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The United States is in many ways a very passive nation. Politically, although there are many that demonstrate and now organize in ways on the web, as a civilization we delegate a great deal to elected and business leaders. Economically, there is not as much small business entrepreneurship as is suggested by the talking heads [...]
Libraries!!! and more (this week’s theme)
Posted in Libraries on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Public libraries are better than sliced bread. This post is more than an appreciation post. One of the great challenges of modern media is how to preserve the media distribution business and process in a way that is functional and allows writers, artists and others to justify their considerable time invested, to actually make a [...]
