(Library) Traffic Director

Pyongyang - Traffic director
Originally uploaded by p!ng

This idea of pause leads into thoughts on Library 2.0. "Away from the icebergs" used the analogy of the library as a boat, with librarians "rowing heroically". I see a library more as a space where the staff are traffic directors, directing streams of information and users. Using pause as a service model can help direct the users to get to the information they need: 1.breathe (maybe count to 10) 2.organize 3.act