Allan Barclay

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Allan Barclay is a Senior Academic Librarian/Information Architecture Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is mortified to admit the last serious game console he was any good with was the Atari 2600. He more recently reconnected with games and simulations via the Games+Learning+Society Conference, and now thinks there might be something to the healthcare games and simulation business. As librarianship moves well beyond the printed word and the staid formats of books and journals the challenge to help people find what they want or need quickly and efficiently is endlessly fascinating. Despite all the brouhaha over “Web 2.0” and even “Web 3.0” there really is something to the idea that knowledge is social and ubiquitous. The last century or so has been more of a detour away from how people organize and use knowledge than a normal evolution of it, and the socially networked approach seems to be a return to that more natural and useful approach.

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