Way back when I was returning to college after a year’s hiatus, I took an ancient history course. The teacher’s name and most of the historical details I learned have been forgotten or misplaced in that murky swamp I call a memory. But our professor said one thing that stuck with me through the years. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Two articles that are making the rounds this morning are from the NY Times ("Lock the Library! Rowdy Students are Taking Over") and the Wall Street Journal ("The Changing Role of Librarians".) I’ve put the Journal article behind the cut. I think it’s worth reading if only because it validates something I’ve observed in the…
E.P.A. Library Closures Could Threaten Public Health By Leslie Burger, AlterNetPosted on December 14, 2006, Printed on December 14, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/45494/ This piece originally ran in the New York Times. If you needed to find out how much pollution an industrial plant in your neighborhood was spewing, or what toxic chemicals were in a local…
Closure of 6 federal libraries angers scientists Cost-cutting moves at the EPA and elsewhere deny researchers and the public access to vital data, critics say. By Tim Reiterman Times Staff Writer December 8, 2006The NASA library in Greenbelt, Md., was part of John C. Mather’s daily routine for years leading up to the astrophysicist’s sharing…
There’s a great deal to be thankful for this year. Too much to write about here, really. So let’s talk about copyright instead: NEW YORK – Cell phone owners can now break locks to use their handsets with competing carriers, while film professors have the right to copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations, the…
Disclaimer: I am posting this more to hear back from other folks who can point me to actual library journal articles on this subject than to suggest that we’re screwed, although I suppose I can do both. That said . . . I admit it: I’ve jumped on the peak oil bandwagon. Which is probably…