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Category: Books
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Nicholas Carr writes in the Atlantic Monthly that “Google is Making Us Stupid,” focusing on the way a decade of web browsing has altered the way his mind works to … Read more Is Google Making Us Stupid?
New SRRT Newsletter
SRRT Newsletter issue 162/163, June 2008, is now up on the web in PDF form. This issue has a schedule of SRRT events at ALA in Anaheim, news from the … Read more New SRRT Newsletter
Library Juice Press / Litwin Books Reception at ALA in Anaheim
Are you going to be at the ALA Conference in Anaheim later this month? Litwin Books / Library Juice Press will be holding a reception. I will be showing the … Read more Library Juice Press / Litwin Books Reception at ALA in Anaheim
Thomas Mann’s Foreword to Responsible Librarianship
Thomas Mann’s Foreword to David Bade’s Responsible Librarianship: Library Policies for Unreliable Systems: There is a kind of “code word” situation that has developed in the library profession in recent … Read more Thomas Mann’s Foreword to Responsible Librarianship
The future of paper
I’m slow to catch this one, so I’ll just mention it (as an important scholarly paper that argues for the future of paper): William Powers’ “Hamlet’s Blackberry: Why Paper is … Read more The future of paper
Israel-Palestine conflict comes to the Turin Book Fair
The L.A. Times reports that… the organizers of the this year’s Turin Book Fair made it an occasion to honor Israeli authors on the 60th anniversary of the nation’s founding, … Read more Israel-Palestine conflict comes to the Turin Book Fair
Felipe Meneses reviews David Bade’s Responsible Librarianship
Felipe Meneses of Mexico City has written a brief review of David Bade’s Responsible Librarianship: Library Policies for Unreliable Systems. It’s in Spanish, so you may or may not be … Read more Felipe Meneses reviews David Bade’s Responsible Librarianship
New from LJP: Questioning Library Neutrality
Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian Editor: Alison Lewis Price: $18.00 Published: April 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9778617-7-4 Printed on acid-free paper Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian presents essays … Read more New from LJP: Questioning Library Neutrality
Lara Moore’s book now available from Powell’s
Powell’s Books is the option for many people who want to buy a book online from a union shop, so I’m very happy that they are stocking books from Litwin … Read more Lara Moore’s book now available from Powell’s
An Hour of Good Listening
I just caught some of this on the radio and want to share it. The new episode of Wisconsin Public Radio’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge” is called Dumbing … Read more An Hour of Good Listening
Against Reading?
This is worth a mention: Mikita Brottman’s The Solitary Vice: Against Reading. I read about it in Kevin Arthur’s Question Technology blog. The book begins by questioning whether reading is … Read more Against Reading?
Napoleon III and public libraries
From Lara Moore’s Restoring Order: The Ecole des Chartes and the Organization of Archives and Libraries in France, 1820-1870 (pages 208-209): It … appears that the late Empire had strong … Read more Napoleon III and public libraries
Nicholson Baker on Wikipedia
The March 20th issue of The New York Review of Books has a review of John Broughton‘s book, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, by Nicholson Baker: The Charms of Wikipedia. Nicholson … Read more Nicholson Baker on Wikipedia
Review of David Bade’s Responsible Librarianship
Book review sent to the RadCat discussion list. RESPONSIBLE LIBRARIANSHIP: LIBRARY POLICIES FOR UNRELIABLE SYSTEMS, by David Bade. Duluth, Minn.: Library Juice Press, 2008. xv, 172 p. $22.00. ISBN 978-0-9778617-6-7. … Read more Review of David Bade’s Responsible Librarianship
Interview with APBNA compiler Byron Anderson
Byron Anderson is the compiler of Alternative Publishers of Books in North America, now in its sixth edition, from Library Juice Press. I asked Byron to talk a bit about … Read more Interview with APBNA compiler Byron Anderson
Two more LJP books available from Powell’s
I’m happy to announce that two more books from Library Juice Press are now on sale from Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon. The reason this is good is that Powell’s … Read more Two more LJP books available from Powell’s
Restoring Order: The Ecole des Chartes and the Organization of Archives and Libraries in France, 1820-1870
New from Litwin Books Author: Lara Jennifer Moore Price: $32.00 Published: March 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9778617-9-8 Printed on acid-free paper Buy from Amazon Buy from Barnes and Noble Between 1789 and … Read more Restoring Order: The Ecole des Chartes and the Organization of Archives and Libraries in France, 1820-1870
Interview with David Bade
David Bade is a cataloger at the University of Chicago who has written books and articles on issues in bibliographic control and other topics. Lately, he’s has gained some attention … Read more Interview with David Bade
Privacy in Peril: How We are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience
Privacy in Peril: How We are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience is an important new book by James B. Rule, who also wrote an influential … Read more Privacy in Peril: How We are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience