Speaking at Drexel
I should have posted something about this earlier, sorry. I will be speaking at Drexel in Philadelphia tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday, 8/11/09), at the iSchool, 5pm, Rush Building, Room 014. They … Read more Speaking at Drexel
Category: Information Ethics
Questioning Library Neutrality – Introduction
Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian, edited by Alison Lewis, has been out for a while. I was just taking a look at it, and it occurred to me … Read more Questioning Library Neutrality – Introduction
Interior space as a social cause
There is a common assumption that trends should be identified quickly so that we can more quickly and more fully adapt to them, in order to stay competitively ahead-of-the-curve and … Read more Interior space as a social cause
PLG statement on Elsevier’s fake journals
Progressive Librarians Guild Calls for Elsevier to End Corrupt Publishing Practices and for Library Associations to Take Advocacy Role on Behalf of Scientific Integrity http://libr.org/plg/elsevier.php Progressive Librarians Guild. May 12, … Read more PLG statement on Elsevier’s fake journals
A Seismic Shift in Epistemology
John Buschman sent a link out this morning to this article by Chris Dede in the current EDUCAUSE Review, “A Seismic Shift in Epistemology. The article examines the deep changes … Read more A Seismic Shift in Epistemology
Elsevier admits to six fake journals
Peter Suber is covering the Elsevier scandal on his Open Access News blog, and reports that the STM publisher has now admitted to publishing six fake journals out of their … Read more Elsevier admits to six fake journals
Elsevier publishes fake journal promoting Merck drugs
This is really outrageous if true and ought to lead to some serious consequences for Elsevier. An online magazine called The Scientist has reported that Elsevier published a two-off fake … Read more Elsevier publishes fake journal promoting Merck drugs
Media in Transition 6 – Podcasts
MIT has posted podcasts from the five plenary sessions at Media in Transition 6, at the Comparative Media Studies program’s podcast page. The plenary sessions were on “Archives and History,” … Read more Media in Transition 6 – Podcasts
The constraining effects of information privatization: Google’s purchase and shutdown of Paper of Record
From today’s Inside Higher Ed, “Digital Archives That Disappear,” a brief article about Google’s shutdown of the historical newspaper archive Paper of Record, which it secretly purchased in 2006. This … Read more The constraining effects of information privatization: Google’s purchase and shutdown of Paper of Record
Exploring the Ethical Implications of Media Technology Through the Thought of Walter Ong
“Exploring the Ethical Implications of Technological Change through the Thought of Walter Ong and Other Media Theorists” That’s the title of my paper for the conference coming up this weekend … Read more Exploring the Ethical Implications of Media Technology Through the Thought of Walter Ong
Library 2.0 talk enters backwardation
This is going to be my obnoxious post for the year, the kind of post I write periodically that leads to ugly Google results on my name. There are things … Read more Library 2.0 talk enters backwardation
New from Litwin Books: Library of Walls
Library of Walls: The Library of Congress and the Contradictions of Information Society Author: Samuel Gerald Collins Price: $32.00 Published: April 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9802004-2-3 Printed on acid-free paper “The experience … Read more New from Litwin Books: Library of Walls
Chapter Two of Slow Reading
Chapter two of John Miedema’s Slow Reading, “Slow Reading in an Information Ecology,” is now online at the Litwin Books site. The first two paragraphs here: Isaac Asimov (1969) tells … Read more Chapter Two of Slow Reading
Slow Reading
Author: John Miedema Price: $12.00 Published: March 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9802004-4-7 Printed on acid-free paper https://litwinbooks.com/slowreading.php In the face of ever-increasing demands for speed-reading of volumes of information fragments, some readers … Read more Slow Reading
From Duality to Dilemma
I’m giving the keynote lecture at the 4th Annual University of Arizona SIRLS Graduate Symposium this Saturday. My talk is called “From duality to dilemma: balancing the library on mission, … Read more From Duality to Dilemma
YouTube, the search engine?
Interesting post at Stay Free! commenting on a New York Times story about kids using YouTube as their primary search engine for information about topics assigned for homework. Carrie McLaren … Read more YouTube, the search engine?
Robert Jensen on library neutrality
…[T]he question isn’t whether one is neutral, but whether one is independent from control and allowed to pursue free and open inquiry. In a healthy society, professionals would be given … Read more Robert Jensen on library neutrality
The Other Crisis of Trust (and a question about what it means for Info Lit)
Since the second half of last year I’ve been reading a lot of financial news, where the major theme of the financial crisis is the “crisis of trust” – banks … Read more The Other Crisis of Trust (and a question about what it means for Info Lit)
Obama’s Policy Agenda on Government Ethics
The most frustrating thing about eight years of Bush Administration nefariousness and stupidity, from a librarian’s point of view, was their attitude of secrecy and contempt for the public. It … Read more Obama’s Policy Agenda on Government Ethics
Tim Clydesdale on the new student, in the Chronicle of Higher Ed
There is a great article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education about today’s students, how they think, and why: Wake Up and Smell the New Epistemology, by Tim Clydesdale. I … Read more Tim Clydesdale on the new student, in the Chronicle of Higher Ed