The Chronicle of Higher Education has a brief news item today about a Reed-Elsevier web portal for oncologists called OncologySTAT, which provides free access to medical research in journals that … Read more OncologySTAT: end run around objectivity
The new First Monday has an article by Terje Hillesund that’s worth reading if you’re interested in the question of the future of the book: Reading Books in the Digital … Read more Terje Hillesund on the future of books
Somebody just bought a “Kiss Me I’m a Librarian” thong out of my old Libr.org Cafe Press store, which reminded me that it exists. The shop has got t-shirts, coffee … Read more Libr.org Cafe Press
Don’t let the everyday name fool you, Edgardo Civallero and Sara Plaza’s blog, The Log of a Librarian, an English translation of their Spanish language blog from Argentina, is full … Read more Civallero and Plaza
After offering reference help to a student the other day and having it refused, I had what I can only call an evil thought. I’d like to share this evil … Read more Are we the friendly produce consultants of the information age?
French historian Jean-Yves Mollier is happy with neither Google nor with Europe’s plans to counter Google’s anglo-american hegemony with digitized libraries of its own. Here is a translation of the … Read more Jean-Yves Mollier on Google Print and Europe’s response
There will be a meeting of the Progressive Archivists on Friday, September 1, 2007, Noon – 1:00PM, at the Annual Society of American Archivists meeting, at the Fairmont Hotel, 200 … Read more Progressive Archivists Meeting at SAA
Information, Society and Justice an inter-disciplinary electronic journal (website under construction) Information, Society and Justice is a peer-review, open-access electronic journal based in the Department of Applied Social Sciences (DASS) … Read more New journal: Information, Society and Justice
The Progressive Librarians Guild had representatives at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta in March, in partnership with representatives from Radical Reference. Elaine Harger and Kathleen de la Peña McCook … Read more PLG Report from the U.S. Social Forum
One nice thing about true open source software, especially when it’s running a huge website like Wikipedia, is that creative programmers can make useful add-ons to it. Wired Magazine (which … Read more Wikipedia Scanner
First, two new ethnographic studies of undergraduate research habits, each offering a corrective to assumptions at the foundation of Library 2.0 thinking: Anthropologist Nancy Foster led a study at the … Read more Two minor correctives and one broadside on Library 2.0 madness
Here’s some great library PR from regular San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius. It’s an example of the kind of newspaper coverage that I think we mostly want.
Kathleen de la Peña McCook just pointed me to a very interesting Master’s Thesis by Carla Valetich: The Response of Socially Aware Librarians to National Crisis: A Case Study of … Read more The Response of Socially Aware Librarians to National Crisis…
A short essay by Martha Yee titled “Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation?” has been circulating in the cataloging blogosphere. I found it rather … Read more Martha Yee on abdication in cataloging
First of all, this post is inspired by a new Facebook group called “Zero Based Library School,” which derives from an analogy to Zero Based Budgeting, where nothing is carried … Read more A note on library “traditionalism”
I refer you to Kathleen de la Pe?±a McCook’s Union Librarian blog for the best ongoing coverage of the strike at the Vancouver Public Library (outside of the union’s own … Read more Strike at the Vancouver (BC) Public Library
Readers who speak French, you probably already know you are favored here. So for your special benefit, here is a link to a very enjoyable podcast from the radio show … Read more French podcast on libraries
Libraryjuicepress.com and Libr.org were down and out for several days due to e-gremlins. Service has been restored.
Don’t tell anybody, because it’s so embarrassing, but the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) now has a Facebook group. Actually, the idea was debated for a day, and finally … Read more Psst! SRRT Facebook group!
In many European countries, libraries pay a fee to copyright owners based on circulation statistics, in addition to buying the books outright. (And many European countries don’t do this.) This … Read more Italian Library Association and the Public Lending Right