“Metric Mania”
John Allen Paulos is a mathematician who writes books about numeracy for a popular audience. The New York Times Magazine published a brief but insightful essay by him about the … Read more “Metric Mania”
Category: People In Focus
New SRRT Newsletter
An announcement from SRRT Newsletter Editor Myka Kennedy Stephens: SRRT Newsletter – Issue 171, June 2010 is now available! The permanent link is: http://libr.org/srrt/news/srrt171.html NEW! This is our first issue … Read more New SRRT Newsletter
2010 Braverman Prize Winner
June 1, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize Winner Announced (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR) The Progressive Librarians Guild is pleased to announce the winner of the 2010 … Read more 2010 Braverman Prize Winner
Wayne Bivens-Tatum on Librarians and “Traditional Cultural Expressions”
There is a hot issue in librarianship that I think has great significance in terms of how society and the institution of libraries is changing. The issue is how the … Read more Wayne Bivens-Tatum on Librarians and “Traditional Cultural Expressions”
Goodman vs. St. Paul
Lawsuit Challenges Police and Secret Service Crackdown on Journalists Covering Protests at Republican National Convention CONTACT: press@ccrjustice.org May 5, 2010, Minnesota and St. Paul, MN —Today, the Center for Constitutional … Read more Goodman vs. St. Paul
New York event
LACUNY is sponsoring an event tomorrow on Critical Library Instruction at the Brooklyn College Library. The organizers are Alycia Sellie and Jonathan Cope. Ira Shor will be the featured speaker. … Read more New York event
Caralyn Champa reviews Slow Reading
Caralyn Champa has a review of John Miedema’s Slow Reading in the most recent issue of the German-English online journal Libreas. Caralyn’s review is a pleasure to read, like John’s … Read more Caralyn Champa reviews Slow Reading
Critical Library Instruction – editors’ chat
Maria, Emily, and Alana met in Google Chat, as they did often over the course of this book project, to reflect on the process and product of Critical Library Instruction: … Read more Critical Library Instruction – editors’ chat
Interview with Lauren Pressley
Lauren Pressley is an Instructional Design Librarian at Wake Forest University, and the author of So You Want To Be a Librarian, from Library Juice Press. I interviewed her about … Read more Interview with Lauren Pressley
Audio interview with Slow Reading author John Miedema
Poet Dave Bonta has an podcast interview series on his Via Negativa blog. His latest interview is with John Miedema, author of Slow Reading. It’s a good listen.
Podcast of Alberta Talk: Disintermediation 2.0
The talk I gave in Alberta on February 5th was recorded. The recording is now on the web in mp3 form. Toni Samek’s introduction feels a bit grand, but the … Read more Podcast of Alberta Talk: Disintermediation 2.0
Phil Agre found
Phil Agre, the UCLA LIS professor who went missing last year, has been found, though I suppose that from his perspective he was never lost. UCLA police department’s missing person’s … Read more Phil Agre found
Chapter One of Juris Dilevko’s Politics of Professionalism
I have posted the first chapter of Juris Dilevko’s The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship to the Library Juice Press website: Chapter One: Fateful Choices. It is … Read more Chapter One of Juris Dilevko’s Politics of Professionalism
New OIF Director Announced
ALA has announced that they have chosen Barbara M. Jones to be the new head of the Office for Intellectual Freedom, replacing the long-serving Judith Krug, who passed away in … Read more New OIF Director Announced
Phil Agre is missing
Phil Agre is a professor of library science at UCLA whom I’ve long wished to meet. A few weeks ago the Los Angeles Police Department announced that he was missing. … Read more Phil Agre is missing
Ed D’Angelo’s book translated into Japanese
One of the first books from Library Juice Press was Ed D’Angelo’s Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the … Read more Ed D’Angelo’s book translated into Japanese
John Miedema’s LoC talk
John Miedema gave his talk at the Library of Congress the other day, and has posted his text and bibliography. John is working on an interesting follow-up project to Slow … Read more John Miedema’s LoC talk
The Minow sisters!
From the New Yorker, “The Minow Sisters: An Example for Malia and Sasha Obama?” Yes, that’s Minow as in Mary Minow of librarylaw.com… 🙂
John Miedema to speak in Washington, DC
John Miedema, author of Slow Reading, will be speaking at a forum on the Future of Reading at the Library of Congress, on October 22nd. The forum is sponsored by … Read more John Miedema to speak in Washington, DC
Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009)
This is not library-related, but I would like to pass on a link to an article on the career of the late Polish intellectual Leszek Kolakowski by Tony Judt, in … Read more Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009)