{"id":379,"date":"2009-10-16T08:55:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbl.lishost.org\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2009-10-16T08:55:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:55:45","slug":"from-gatekeepers-to-gate-openers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/2009\/10\/16\/from-gatekeepers-to-gate-openers\/","title":{"rendered":"From Gatekeepers To Gate Openers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the title of an article I published about my thoughts on how librarians can create a unique user experience for their library. It appeared in the August\/September 2009 issue of <em>American Libraries<\/em>. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/site.ebrary.com\/lib\/ala\/docDetail.action?docID=10329010&amp;page=1\">find the article here<\/a>, but you&#8217;ll need to advance to page 50 in the online issue to read the article. I had a number of the ideas for the article brewing in my head for a while, but it wasn&#8217;t until I attended a presentation by Seth Godin, where he spoke about gateskeeper and gate openers. The article brings together a number of ideas that I&#8217;ve shared here at DBL &#8211; so for regular readers some of the AL article may be a bit familiar, but I hope you take a look anyway. If you do have any reactions to or thoughts about the article, please consider sharing them here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the title of an article I published about my thoughts on how librarians can create a unique user experience for their library. It appeared in the August\/September 2009 issue of American Libraries. You can find the article here, but you&#8217;ll need to advance to page 50 in the online issue to read the article. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/2009\/10\/16\/from-gatekeepers-to-gate-openers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Gatekeepers To Gate Openers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}