Structures, standards, and the people who make them meaningful, by David Bade

I would prefer to draw out the implications of that for our work, but we have been asked to respond to a set of questions. The questions to which we were asked to respond, like these meetings themselves, rest upon certain assumptions that I want to note and comment upon before I make any response to the particulars. The chief difficulties I had with the background paper had to do with the understanding of what goes on in libraries, why, and for whom. Additionally, the ways in which we understand users, policies and technologies and the relationships among these elements are crucial determinants for how we think about structures and standards. To start with, then, let me note three assumptions from the background paper: