There’s a passage from the first part of Jean Baudrillard’s In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities that always resonated with my more pessimistic moments of doing library instruction. There … Read more Baudrillard on the futility of information
Piracy: Leakages from Modernity Editors: Martin Fredriksson and James Arvanitakis Price: $40.00 Published: July 2014 ISBN: 978-1-936117-59-8 Printed on acid-free paper Available on Amazon “Piracy” is a concept that seems … Read more Piracy: Leakages from Modernity
News from the Sign Project, This-Sign.net. (This-Sign.net is a digital sign in a public space that is connected to the internet, so that people can put their messages on the … Read more News from the Sign Project
Jennifer Sweeney teaches at the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University and in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA, and is a program evaluation consultant for libraries … Read more Interview with Jennifer Sweeney
Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University, Canada. In his career he has focused on the political economy of information, communication, and the media. Back in the 80s he co-edited … Read more Interview with Vincent Mosco about his new book
Andrea Baer is the Undergraduate Education Librarian at Indiana University-Bloomington, as well as an Adjunct Lecturer for the University of Tennessee’s School of Information Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in … Read more Interview with Andrea Baer
Last summer I went with a delegation of information workers to Israel/Palestine. As our post-trip solidarity statement said: We bore witness to the destruction and appropriation of information, and the … Read more Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Launches Solidarity Network
From: Jennifer Gilley Subject: [WGSS-L] Updated Bibliography of Women and Gender Studies Scholarship Date: June 2, 2014 12:42:04 PM PDT To: wgss-l@ala.org The WGSS Research Committee [Women and Gender Studies … Read more Bibliography of Scholarship on Women and Gender Studies Librarianship
We’re exhibiting at ALA in Las Vegas later this month, showing our books and talking to people about Library Juice Academy. We want to give you a free pass to … Read more Free exhibits pass to visit our booth at ALA
The SRRT discussion list has been alive recently with comments – objections, to be accurate – to ALA’s decision to present a screening and discussion of the controversial 1977 film, … Read more Commentary on The Speaker – Al Kagan, Pat Schuman, Mitch Freedman