I just awoke from my evening nap (yes, I take naps in the evenings; is that a bad thing?) and read Karen Schneider’s posting about David Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, on the ALA TechSource blog.

She writes that this new book

“takes all the precious ideas we are taught as librarians and throws them out the window. Structure, order, precise metadata, bibliographic control: gone, gone, gone, gone. Even, for you edgier types, ye who tell of your Semantic Web and your RDF triples: old-school, good-bye, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”

She writes a lot more, and I now feel I must find a copy of the book to read it for myself. Weinberger has his own blog–perhaps we (librarians) can start a meaningful discussion with him. Maybe a dialogue with Weinberger isn’t warranted, but Karen makes a most compelling observation:

“The most dangerous part of this book is not that Weinberger says these things, and so much more: the danger comes if we don’t listen.”

“Hello? Barnes and Noble? …”