Call for Essays Working Title: We Can Do I.T. : Women in Library Information Technology Editors: Jenny Brandon, Sharon Ladenson, Kelly Sattler Submission Deadline: March 27, 2017 (extended) Publisher: Library … Read more Call for Essays: We Can Do I.T. : Women in Library Information Technology
About the book Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries will be a collective oral history covering many of the issues in technology in librarianship in the … Read more CFP: Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries
IEEE Potentials is seeking contributions to a special issue guest edited by Ramona Pringle, Katina Michael and MG Michael. The theme of the issue is: “Unintended Consequences: the Paradox of … Read more CFP: Unintended Consequences: the Paradox of Technological Potential (IEEE Potentials)
Islands in the Cyberstream Seeking Havens of Reason in a Programmed Society Author: Joseph Weizenbaum with Gunna Wendt Translator: Benjamin Fasching-Gray Price: $28.00 ISBN: 978-1-63400-000-0 Published: October 2015 Printed on … Read more New Book by Joseph Weizenbaum
John Russell is Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Oregon Libraries, which involves open access advocacy and scholarly publishing as well as digital scholarship services. He has been actively … Read more Interview with John Russell
International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) Issue 022, Volume 22, December 2014 Ethics for the Internet of Things edited by Hektor Haarkötter, Felix Weil [ Current issue ] Editors’ note: … Read more New issue of IRIE on Ethics for the Internet of Things
Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World, talked by remote video from Boston about the history of the development of the “cloud” and “big … Read more Vincent Mosco on C-SPAN
Nicolas Beudon reports that last night there were cyberattacks against numerous French library websites, evidently by Islamist groups. They hacked into these sites using vulnerabilities in Drupal, WordPress, and ISS, … Read more Cyberattacks against numerous French library websites
Among the Disrupted By Leon Wieseltier JAN. 7, 2015 New York Times Book Review Amid the bacchanal of disruption, let us pause to honor the disrupted. The streets of American … Read more Among the Disrupted (NYT Book Review Essay)
IFLA approved its first Internet Manifesto in 2002. This provided an early recognition of the vital role that the Internet plays in the work of library and information services, and … Read more IFLA Internet Manifesto 2014
Back in May 2014, I interviewed the multitalented New York-based activist, performer, and technologist Hadassah Damien, whom I had originally met in January during a librarian-techie trip to Haiti. We … Read more “How do we do things with our principles and also get our tasks done?” An interview with Hadassah Damien
Jason Bengtson is the Head of Library Computing and Information Systems at the University of Oklahoma’s Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library. A co-editor of the Technology column of the … Read more Interview with Jason Bengtson
In her January piece on net neutrality in Wired Magazine that I have just now seen, former ALA President Barbara Stripling says, “…[W]ithout net neutrality, we are in danger of … Read more An ironic concern over net neutrality
Tony Castelletto has been programming computers on one platform or another since the late 1980s, and received his MLIS in 2008 from Drexel. He has worked on unusual information projects … Read more Interview with Tony Castelletto
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
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
Print-on-demand from kiosks and electronic distribution of the news predicted in 1975…. Here is an excerpt from the 1975 book, Ecotopia, by Ernest “Chick” Callenbach. Thanks to Lincoln Cushing for … Read more Media predictions from 1975 Ecotopia…
Jillian Wallis is a PhD student in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA. Her research addresses the data practices of researchers at the Center for Embedded … Read more Interview with Jillian Wallis
Scott La Counte is the head librarian for the Southern California Institute of Technology. He has given presentations on mobile application development at several different conferences, and is the author … Read more Interview with Scott La Counte
Two certificate programs at Library Juice Academy are starting in February: The Certificate in User Experience (UX) and the Certificate in XML and RDF-Based Systems. Both of these programs are … Read more Two certificate programs starting in February