Failure is often perceived in personal terms, where the problem rests solely on the underachieving or underprepared individual. Making the responsibility of failure primarily personal obscures how insufficient infrastructures contribute to the lack of success. Can we assume that library infrastructures fully support moving from in-person interactions to virtual environments? This presentation argues that library infrastructure is a useful lens to examine how failure exists in the relationship between the personal and the institutional. The presenters will provide reflective opportunities for participants to identify specific and interconnected elements--energy, resources, platform, and vision--to understand failure in relation to library infrastructure.
Participants will:
- recognize and recognize the role of infrastructure in effective and sustainable library instruction.
- identify elements of the maintenance schema and use them to analyze existing infrastructures in their own contexts.
- reconsider understandings of failure in light of personal and infrastructural contexts.
