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093 - Desk Set (1957)
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093 - Desk Set (1957)

librarypunk

June 9, 202355m 55sExplicit

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Show Notes

This week we’re doing the other library school movie, Desk Set. But first, we solve the eternal war between goths and librarians by talking about the Mütter Museum’s changes. Then we get into AI, automation, and sexy library shenanigans. 

Media mentioned

Mütter Museum: https://www.inquirer.com/news/mutter-museum-oddities-review-new-plan-20230603.html 

Knott Malone, "Imagining information retrieval in the library: Desk Set in historical context," in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 14-22, July-Sept. 2002, doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2002.1024759. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1024759

Desk set revisited: Reference librarians, reality, & research systems' design (1995) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0099133395901450