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Clandestine Librarianism

Posted by on July 4, 2011 at 6:58 pm

As the tester to this ultimate topic as good as pointy ultimate member screen, you guess I’d prove to the ultimate devise that has popped up in Chicago, headed by folks with the small corner in the distinguished novel as good as manifest humanities communities. The Chicago Underground Library is in the plan stage, as [...]

Know Yourself First

Posted by on February 3, 2008 at 7:03 pm

It does not make a difference which Microsoft might buy Yahoo–the merger is formed upon a injured premise. Technology companies cannot work similar to a GEs as well as General Motors of a universe as well as offer as a be-all-end-all of technology. The New York Times currently put a merger in a right context. Describing a commercial operation enlightenment of Silicon Valley, [...]

The next wave of disruption (it’s not us!)

Posted by on January 1, 2007 at 2:20 am

If librarians were a primary call of professionals to have their careers “threatened” by a coming of a Internet, 2006 current to be a year when reporters came underneath matching fire. you usually watched a News Hour block blue-blooded “New Media, New Year” (mp3 version) in that journalists, educators of reporters as great as report [...]

Advocacy = Public Awareness

Posted by on December 15, 2006 at 4:20 pm

In the ultimate College as great as Research Libraries News you’ll find the Association of College as great as Research Libraries (ACRL) Annual Report for 2006. My eye was right away drawn to the “Advocacy” domain of the report. Although there have been both the legislative advocacy part of as great as the “grassroots” advocacy part of (that [...]

Charlie Brown said it best…

Posted by on November 15, 2006 at 4:49 pm

“Good grief!” The printed account of the New York Times had the front page story on Web 3.0, a.k.a., the Sematic Web, a.k.a., the World Wide Database, this past Sunday. First of all, the citation of versioning the Web needs to stop. It is foolish as good as non-sensical. As apart as the story is [...]

Brave new world

Posted by on June 2, 2006 at 6:35 pm

The NY Times is stating which U.S. Wants Companies to Keep Web Usage Records. The justification: porn as well as terrorism, solely for those who review in between the lines: Kate Dean, the senior manager executive of the United States Internet Service Provider Association, the traffic group, said: “When they pronounced they were articulate about kid pornography, you outlayed [...]

The state of research skills

Posted by on March 27, 2006 at 6:42 pm

The dilution of examine skills as good as the need for inform literacy, the theme we have discussed frequently, has finished the proceed to mainstream discussions once again: Searching for Dummies. Also enchanting is plead of an one more theme we debated, Wikipedia. The letter cites the weed roots bid by grad students to put good [...]

Google Newsletter for Librarians

Posted by on February 20, 2006 at 6:49 pm

Perhaps this is elderly head cover to all of you revisit posters, yet you quick scanned the posts as good as saw nary the plead of this. Anyhow, you examination now that shaped on feedback from the ALA contention last summer, Google has proposed the newsletter destined towards Librarians. The primary begin was diminished in December [...]

Goal II: Education

Posted by on February 9, 2006 at 6:56 pm

With a idealisation begin of American Libraries comes ALA’s critical plan, entitled ALA Ahead to 2010. The digest is comprised of 6 goals, any postulated with a thought make a difference as good as critical objectives. Here’s thought array two: Goal Statement: Through a leadership, ALA ensures a tip peculiarity expert as good as fortitude credentials opportunities [...]

Push My Button

Posted by on January 18, 2006 at 7:08 pm

ALA uttered yesterday that librarians in assemblage the nearing Midwinter contention will have the “opportunity to proudly promote their ‘radical’ as good as ‘militant’ await for scholar freedom, privacy, as good as respectful liberties” by purchasing the red, white, as good as blue pitch that reads: “Radical Militant Librarian – Defending Access, Defending Privacy, Defending [...]