Summary of blog treatment of UCLA library taser incident
Morgan Wilson of explodedlibrary.info has a nice summary of the blog traffic and library-world discussions about the UCLA library taser incident.
PALIAct
PALIAct is the Progressive African Library & Information Activists Group. It has ties to CILIP (the UK library association) and the UK’s Information for Social Change, and publishes an online … Read more PALIAct
Library Juice Concentrate teaser
Library Juice Concentrate and Library Daylight are in the final phases of publication and will be available for purchase in about a month. Review copies will be available sooner to … Read more Library Juice Concentrate teaser
ALA President Leslie Burger’s letter to UCLA regarding the taser incident
Posted with permission December 13, 2006 Dr. Norman Abrams Acting Chancellor University of California at Los Angeles University Chancellor’s Office Box 951405 2147 Murphy Los Angeles, CA 90095-1405 Dear Acting … Read more ALA President Leslie Burger’s letter to UCLA regarding the taser incident
SRRT Newsletter 156/157
The new issue of the SRRT Newsletter, which is combined issue 156/157, January 2007, is finished and now online. Paper copies will be mailed to SRRT members and other subscribers … Read more SRRT Newsletter 156/157
Reports disappearing from EPA library website
As you may have noticed throughout the EPA library closure situation, the government’s big justification for closing the libraries has been that it is a digital age, meaning that physical … Read more Reports disappearing from EPA library website
Human Rights Day
Today is Human Rights Day. Two sites I will recommend: OHCHR Human Rights Day page Human Rights Education Association Human Rights Day page Also note Toni Samek’s upcoming book: Librarianship … Read more Human Rights Day
The Progressive – McCarthyism Watch feature
The website of The Progressive magazine has a running feature called McCarthyism Watch, a series of brief articles about present-day attacks on freedom of expression in the United States. A … Read more The Progressive – McCarthyism Watch feature
EPA libraries dumping collections to preempt congressional action
ALA Council’s Bernadine Abbott Hoduski, who has been Council’s leader on the EPA library closure issue, has sent us this article from Yubanet, which begins: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency … Read more EPA libraries dumping collections to preempt congressional action
LibrariansForFairness a project of PR firm Rothstein and Memsic
This is from LISNews. It turns out that LibrariansForFairness, the ostensible library group that opposed SRRT’s criticism of Israel a few years ago, is actually a project of the PR … Read more LibrariansForFairness a project of PR firm Rothstein and Memsic
Censorship in Iran
The Guardian (UK) published a story on Friday about a new wave of censorship in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran. Scores of Western classics, Western bestsellers, and liberal Iranian novels are censored … Read more Censorship in Iran
Return of the Press Barons
Journalism has changed in the last few decades because the ownership of most daily newspapers has moved from local, private hands to publicly traded corporations, which have demanded higher profit … Read more Return of the Press Barons
Four top French book awards go to non-French authors
Why do I care so much about France? I don’t know, maybe just because it’s the traditional first stop for a semi-cosmopolitan anglophone and I am less culturally far-reaching than … Read more Four top French book awards go to non-French authors
ALISE Information Ethics Special Interests Group
The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) has an Information Ethics Special Interest Group (IE-SIG) that has recently completed a Position Statement on Information Ethics in LIS Education. … Read more ALISE Information Ethics Special Interests Group
NYPL executive pay
In the past few years, the New York Public Library has sold off important assets in order to raise money to continue operations. In the same period, compensation for their … Read more NYPL executive pay
On the importance of alternative literature in libraries
I think I neglected to emphasize this… Nancy Kranich’s preface to the 6th edition of Alternative Publishers of Books in North America is online. It’s good reading about the importance … Read more On the importance of alternative literature in libraries
New from LJP: Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library
New from Library Juice Press: Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good By Ed D’Angelo November 2006. … Read more New from LJP: Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library
Who is out of step with the country, really?
We get our sense of where the country is at largely from the media. When elections and opinion polls tell a different story, we have to ask questions about the … Read more Who is out of step with the country, really?
Circumscribing the “public” in public libraries
Thoughtul article in the new Marginal Librarian, McGill’s library school student e-zine: Public libraries: who or what is “public”? This article has to do with Montréal’s new anti-homeless policies (that’s … Read more Circumscribing the “public” in public libraries
One Love, One Bank
Bank of America execs exchange their souls for money in front of a camera. Not specifically library related except inasmuch as it paints a good picture of what we’re up … Read more One Love, One Bank