John Blyberg has more thoughts about the Lawrence anti-library piece.
He’s got a point: we should be listening to what people like Mark Hirschey have to say, even if their conclusions are completely off. That being said, the library can’t be all things to all people, and some folks will never be on our side. So, […]
One way to get your community to flock to the library, although not something MPOW is planning to do, is to serve beer at your programs.
At this point, I’m sure everyone who reads this blog is aware of the opinion piece “Libraries are limited, obsolete” in the Lawrence, KS, Journal-World. The piece breaks my heart and angers my soul. But, honestly, talking about it in blogs doesn’t really do much good. (It’s not “strategic,” to quote Karen G. Schneider.) This […]
What was the first library-related blog I read? The Shifted Librarian.
Who first got me hip to RSS feeds? Jenny Levine.
Who first showed me the fun of a public Bloglines blogroll? Jenny Levine.
Who got some of my coworkers all fired up about blogs and wikis and RSS at last years NEKLS Tech Day? Jenny Levine.
So, how […]
Great news! Our well-paid politicians in Washington have introduced a bill into Congress, with the oh-so-appropriate acronym of DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act). The law would require any schools and libraries that receive federal E-Rate money to block any social networking sites from their computers.
Now, you may be saying to yourself, “Wait a goshdarn minute! […]
Add this to Michael Stephen’s “not even Library 1.0″ meme:
Suburban LA County Pulls Manga Text from Libraries
Bill Postmus, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of suburban San Bernadino County, California, has ordered the county’s libraries to remove the scholarly text Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics from circulation. He proudly announced the move, […]
Homeland Security agents harass library patrons about porn.
Is this the “Post-9/11 Worldview” that the Bush Administration won’t shut up about?
British librarians say DRM hampers the work of librarians.
“As custodians of human memory, a number would keep digital works in perpetuity and may need to be able to transfer them to other formats in order to preserve them and make the content fully accessible and usable once out of copyright.”
In its written submission to the […]
This makes me pump my fist:
FBI Agents Back Down When Librarian Refuses to Let Them Seize 30 Computers Without a Warrant
Rick N. from South Carolina sends this story in to the Goblin mailroom:
Reading goes underground in Sweden
Automatic book dispensers are to be installed on station platforms, starting with test machines at Liljeholmen, T-Centralen and Gullmarsplan…
…Martin Hafstr?m, a spokesman for the City Library, said the idea was to reach out to people who don’t normally read […]
