Trevor Owens is a Public Historian in Residence at American University, a Lecturer for the University of Maryland’s College of Information, and the Director of Digital Services at The Library of Congress.

“After Disruption provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by cultural memory institutions today and suggests how we might get out of the mess we’re in. It critiques modern management theory as applied to libraries to explain how we got ourselves into the mess. And it offers a thoughtful explanation and expansion of the radical futurity/possibility literature on cultural memory to propose ways we might get out of it. This book will be of value to workers in memory institutions, especially libraries and archives, and students interested in working in them.”

• Table of Contents1. Cultural Memory & the FuturePart One: Three Bankrupt Ideas2. What Disruption Wants3. Where Data Drives4. Why Memory Work Doesn't WorkPart Two: Three Ways Forward5. The Maintenance Mindset6. Concentric Circles of Care7. Repair, Revision, & Return8. A Future for Cultural MemoryBibliography

Trevor Owens is a Public Historian in Residence at American University, a Lecturer for the University of Maryland’s College of Information, and the Director of Digital Services at The Library of Congress.

“After Disruption provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by cultural memory institutions today and suggests how we might get out of the mess we’re in. It critiques modern management theory as applied to libraries to explain how we got ourselves into the mess. And it offers a thoughtful explanation and expansion of the radical futurity/possibility literature on cultural memory to propose ways we might get out of it. This book will be of value to workers in memory institutions, especially libraries and archives, and students interested in working in them.”

• Table of Contents1. Cultural Memory & the FuturePart One: Three Bankrupt Ideas2. What Disruption Wants3. Where Data Drives4. Why Memory Work Doesn't WorkPart Two: Three Ways Forward5. The Maintenance Mindset6. Concentric Circles of Care7. Repair, Revision, & Return8. A Future for Cultural MemoryBibliography

Trevor Owens is a Public Historian in Residence at American University, a Lecturer for the University of Maryland’s College of Information, and the Director of Digital Services at The Library of Congress.

“After Disruption provides a comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by cultural memory institutions today and suggests how we might get out of the mess we’re in. It critiques modern management theory as applied to libraries to explain how we got ourselves into the mess. And it offers a thoughtful explanation and expansion of the radical futurity/possibility literature on cultural memory to propose ways we might get out of it. This book will be of value to workers in memory institutions, especially libraries and archives, and students interested in working in them.”

• Table of Contents1. Cultural Memory & the FuturePart One: Three Bankrupt Ideas2. What Disruption Wants3. Where Data Drives4. Why Memory Work Doesn't WorkPart Two: Three Ways Forward5. The Maintenance Mindset6. Concentric Circles of Care7. Repair, Revision, & Return8. A Future for Cultural MemoryBibliography