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Jason Griffey

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Library Technologist (Library and information studies not elsewhere classified; Ethical use of new technology; Technology management; Innovation management; History and philosophy of science)

Sewanee, TN

Jason Griffey was most recently the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he worked to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise was useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of Library IT and a tenured professor at the University of TN at Chattanooga.

Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently a chapter in Library 2035 - Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries by Rowman & Littlefield. His latest full-length work Standards - Essential Knowledge, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, was published by MIT Press in March 2025.

He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.

He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.

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Publications

  • The new iPad
  • Blogging and RSS: A librarian's guide
  • 3-D Printers for Libraries, 2017 Edition
  • Podcast 1 2 3.
  • Doing More with Less
  • Gadgets and gizmos: Personal electronics and the library
  • Social networking and the library
  • Mobile Technology and Libraries
  • Library blogging
  • Privacy and Freedom of Information in 21st-century Libraries
  • Google ChromeOS Notebook-Part 5
  • MOVERS & SHAKERS 2009
  • Ebook sanity
  • Stranger than we know
  • E-readers now, e-readers forever!
  • Jason Griffey, Mobile Technology and Libraries, The Tech Set, 2, Facet Publishing, London (2010) 115 pp.,\pounds 35.00 soft cover, ISBN: 9781856047227.
  • The rise of the tablet
  • Absolutely fab-ulous
  • How libraries can save the Internet of Things from the Web's centralized fate
  • The LibraryBox Project
  • Privacy and Freedom of Information in 21st-Century Libraries: A Library Technology Report
  • It just gets weirder
  • The Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know: A LITA Guide
  • Dispatches from the Field: Freedom and Technology: Intellectual freedom in the 21st century
  • The types of 3-D printing
  • Dispatches from the Field: Gadgets and Gizmos
  • Dispatches from the Field: Updates from Apple
  • Perspectives on Supporting and Administering Maker Culture and Programs in Libraries
  • Creating and printing files
  • . Hardware
  • . Recommendations
  • . Types of Filaments for FDM Printing
  • 3-D Printers for Libraries, 2017 Edition
  • 3-D printers
  • Gadgets and gizmos: libraries and the post-PC era
  • One Librarian's Takeaway from the Consumer Electronics Show
  • Types of plastics
  • AI Impacts and Roles for Libraries - CNI Fall 2019.pdf
  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Libraries.
  • 3-D Printers for Libraries
  • How AI fundamentally changes the information ecosystem
  • How AI fundamentally changes the information ecosystem
  • Gadgets & Gizmos: Personal Electronics at Your Library.
  • Gadgets & Gizmos II: Libraries in the Post-PC World.
  • Library Spaces and Smart Buildings
  • Podcast 1-2-3
  • Engaging with NISO
  • Standards
  • The SeamlessAccess audit toolkit: A framework for librarians to audit resource access
  • Engaging with NISO
  • Mobile Technology and Libraries
  • The Perils of Strong Copyright: The American Library Association and Free Culture

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