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Moyers: Why Fund Libraries? Why Fund Anything?
If you’ve read this blog for longer than 10 minutes then you know that I’ll repost news of anything Bill Moyers does or says. And this post is no different: on February 7, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation presented Bill and Judith Moyers the first Frank E. Taplin, Jr. Public Intellectual Award for "extraordinary
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Too Cool for Words
This is Lara (aka, Mrs. Rogue Scholar, MLS). Lara is a librarian at the NYC Dept. of Health Library. Before she started there, she worked at the EPA Library on Broadway, NYC. This is Lara’s book, "Fat Chicks Rule: How to Survive in a Thin-Centric World." (I helped write the first chapter.) And this is
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Are Librarians Obselete? Nyet!
This enormously spiffy article by Will Sherman has been making the rounds across Libraryland and I figured I’d sock it away for future reference. He asks "Are Librarians Totally Obsolete?" and then answers it with a big fat "No!" All 33 points why we’re here to stay are highly recommended if you’re one of the
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Library of Congress Happenings
Very likely the entire planet has seen this already but on the slim chance that you have not, here’s something I found courtesy of the TSLIBRARIAN listserv, which pulled it from the Library Link of the Day website, which is now in the Library Resources TypeList to the left. At any rate, here is More
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Calling Mr. Decimal
If you’re looking to renew your knowledge of Dewey Decimal classification–which can be a drag, but plenty of libraries continue to use it and it’s a good skill to retain over the long haul–then you might want to take a look at the WebDewey Tutorial over at OCLC’s web site. They cover Dewey in a
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The Hertz Lady and a Poem
I’m downloading version 4.2 of DiMeMa’s contentDM Acquisition Station to match our update of the online database to the same version. It’s a sizable download and it’s taking a while. But in the mean time I notice that I got a quote in to Andy’s website. My quote is here–a story from my days as
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Dawkins on Life and Death
I admire Richard Dawkins’ mind very much. His delivery, well, not as much. That said, this observation is sheer brilliance: "We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they’re never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in
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Remember Howard Beale
This past Friday beheld the start of the third National Conference over Media Reform in Memphis. Bill Moyers was one of the main speakers, and being Moyers, he let the media establishment have it point blank: Veteran journalist Bill Moyers on Friday challenged 3,000 progressive activists and communicators to take back the telling of America’s
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Democrats Push ‘Net Neutrality
From Variety, the most hopeful news I’ve heard all year (the whole 10 days): Democrats push ‘Net neutrality Internet Freedom Preservation Act is introduced By WILLIAM TRIPLETT WASHINGTON — Democrats, who all but sank major communications reform legislation in the previous congressional session over the issue of so-called ‘Net neutrality, marked the first day of
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News from the Human Genome Project
See, here’s the thing. The Human Genome Project is without doubt one of the most ambitious, important, and just plain brilliant ideas put forth by the science establishment ever. The guys over at the American Society for Microbiology explain why better than I can: With the help of new techniques and powerful computers, scientists have