@petrichor that seems like the consensus of creativity studies over the past decade or so. A number of nonfiction writers have translated that set of ideas into various books, e.g., Steve Berlin Johnson. Sorry not to be more help, but I couldn’t recall a book that mentioned modularity in particular. If you recall it, please post!

@vfrmedia @BruceMirken The response I got was a kind of “sorry, not sorry”. They felt those were library science books, because indexes and bibliographies, and that they could make that call. Given the poor funding of the library, I just couldn’t believe their first impulse wasn’t to find more and better ways to network within the university community. Uni faculty responses to this have largely been ho hum. Which means they see the library as part of the larger dysfunction and not, as I felt it to be, an island in the storm (if also an underfunded and understaffed island).