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| author | Chudnov, Daniel |
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| contents | Failure Is Always an Option Chudnov, Daniel Libraries Coping Computer Software Library Automation Electronic Libraries Failure Personal Narratives Access to Information Web Sites Things are failing everywhere. A few years ago, several large companies disappeared almost overnight in a series of scandals. This year, the mortgage industry imploded. More recently, stalwart financial and insurance corporations have been dropping like flies. Failures happen on a smaller scale too. Recently, the all-caps word "FAIL" became a mocking web catch phrase to describe poorly conceived projects, server breakdowns, or other calamities. The people running the popular micro-blogging site Twitter struggle so much to keep up with traffic that the oddly reassuring image of a whale they post when the site goes down came to be known and loved as the "Fail Whale." In early September, colleagues from a former job of the author's shut down one of their libraries. They closed a physical location, and two longtime staffers lost their positions. Restaurants and small businesses come and go all the time, websites go up and down all the time, but a library closing hits close to home. What people do or don't do when it all comes to an end says a lot about them. In this article, the author encourages the readers to take a closer look at how people fail and to be willing to share what they've learned when things go wrong. |
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| publishDate | 2008 |
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| spellingShingle | Failure Is Always an Option Chudnov, Daniel Libraries Coping Computer Software Library Automation Electronic Libraries Failure Personal Narratives Access to Information Web Sites Failure Is Always an Option Chudnov, Daniel Libraries Coping Computer Software Library Automation Electronic Libraries Failure Personal Narratives Access to Information Web Sites Things are failing everywhere. A few years ago, several large companies disappeared almost overnight in a series of scandals. This year, the mortgage industry imploded. More recently, stalwart financial and insurance corporations have been dropping like flies. Failures happen on a smaller scale too. Recently, the all-caps word "FAIL" became a mocking web catch phrase to describe poorly conceived projects, server breakdowns, or other calamities. The people running the popular micro-blogging site Twitter struggle so much to keep up with traffic that the oddly reassuring image of a whale they post when the site goes down came to be known and loved as the "Fail Whale." In early September, colleagues from a former job of the author's shut down one of their libraries. They closed a physical location, and two longtime staffers lost their positions. Restaurants and small businesses come and go all the time, websites go up and down all the time, but a library closing hits close to home. What people do or don't do when it all comes to an end says a lot about them. In this article, the author encourages the readers to take a closer look at how people fail and to be willing to share what they've learned when things go wrong. |
| title | Failure Is Always an Option |
| topic | Libraries Coping Computer Software Library Automation Electronic Libraries Failure Personal Narratives Access to Information Web Sites |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ817322 |