Adam Rogers's Blog

I am a working librarian and a student of library and information science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My main focus is on library innovation and the future of libraries; I’m committed to libraries as public information centers, vibrant community spaces, and essential cultural institutions. I’m interested in library use of emerging technologies, especially ways in which new media can be used to enrich local community and social activity. One of my recent projects deals with just that, though not in a library context: the YouTube Tournament, which brings people together (in person) to competitively share, watch, and judge their favorite online videos.

Other projects I’m currently working on include imagining and prototyping a low-power, off-the-grid library; and a VJ performance for the Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology (CHAT) festival in February 2010. I’m also active in local chapters of ASIS&T and the Progressive Librarians Guild.

Before coming to school at UNC, I lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, where I drove a bookmobile for our public library, learned principles of community organizing, performed as a DJ and VJ, and started a community center called Better Than Television. As an undergraduate I studied anthropology and poetry writing at the University of Virginia.