I really like the O’Reilly quote, “software that gets better the more people use it.” Clearly this can apply to libraries as well, if we let library users participate in helping the organism grow. (A library is a growing organism, according to Ranganathan.) When we weed based on circulation, that is unconsious user participation. I hope to see library catalogs to which users can consciously contribute their tags, reviews and lists.
An interesting aspect of O'Reilly's observation is that it violates entropy. I know of one SF novel that explores the reversal of entropy - David Brin’s The Practice Effect. In that universe, knives get sharper with use.
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