Alison Macrina is a librarian, privacy rights activist, and the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, an initiative which aims to make real the promise of intellectual freedom … Read more Interview with Alison Macrina
Call for Proposals Data & Ethics Information Ethics Roundtable 2017 April 21-22 Proposals Due: January 2, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: January 30, 2017 https://ier2017.wordpress.com In our knowledge society, our networked … Read more CFP: Information Ethics Roundtable 2017
This open letter has been circulating elsewhere, but deserves the widest circulation possible, in my opinion…. “I’m sharing this open letter from Patricia Polacco because it raises chilling questions about … Read more Open letter from Patricia Polacco RE: International Reading Association Conference
Here is an excerpt from Jesse Shera’s 1936 article in The Bulletin of the American Library Association, “The College Library and its Future.” (Vol. 30, pp. 495-501.) A PROFESSIONAL CREDO … Read more Jesse Shera on academic librarians’ professional values
The British Columbia Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee has a new blog, which I will read regularly. It’s been going since late August, and in that time I’d say it’s … Read more British Columbia Library Association IFC blog
Toni Samek and other library educators concerned with the declining place of information ethics, intellectual freedom, and matters having to do with the unique ethos of librarianship formed a Special … Read more ALISE Information Ethics Statement
David Bade pointed me to this very interesting talk (in transcript form) by Andrew Abbott of the University of Chicago, given as the Windsor Lecture at the University of Illinois … Read more How library research is really done
Nanette Perez of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom sent out a link to this AOL study on web users’ behavior and statements regarding data privacy. The study finds, unsurprisingly, that … Read more Privacy and markets
ALA Council Report to SRRT, Chicago, July 2009 Before reporting on the business of the meetings, let me first honor the life of E.J. Josey, who died just before Annual … Read more SRRT Councilor’s report
This article feels like another nail in the coffin of what we thought we knew of the past: Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’. Or a ramping-ing up of the general … Read more Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’
CFP: Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (An Edited Collection) Editors: Shana Higgins and Lua Gregory are instruction and reference librarians at University of Redlands. They recently co-taught … Read more CFP: Information Literacy and Social Justice: Radical Professional Praxis (An Edited Collection)
ACRL has embarked on the important, even urgent, initiative to support academic libraries in articulating and demonstrating their value to their institutions at a time in which higher education in … Read more Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, and the Value of Our Values
As a rule, this is not a personal blog. I have only taken the liberty to talk about my own life a few times over the years. I’ve decided to … Read more Why I dropped out of a PhD program
Dear all, On behalf of the conference organizing committee, I’m pleased to present the preliminary program for CAPAL15: Academic Librarianship and Critical Practice, the second annual conference of the Canadian … Read more CAPAL 15 Program Announced
Some pics from our booth at ALA… Our booth, with Michelle Montalbano Books Our booth, with Lacey Torge Michelle Caroline Gardner and Liz Lieutenant Aliqae Geraci, holding one of her … Read more Images from our presence at ALA in Orlando
CFP: Call for Proposals CAPAL17: Foundations & Futures: Critical Reflections on the Pasts, Presents, and Possibilities of Academic Librarianship CAPAL/ACBAP Annual Meeting – May 30 – June 1, 2017 Congress … Read more Extended deadline for CFP: CAPAL17: Foundations & Futures: Critical Reflections on the Pasts, Presents, and Possibilities of Academic Librarianship
The University of Alberta’s Express News today features an article titled “Librarians are freedom fighters, says author,” about professor Toni Samek and her recent advocacy of school librarianship in Alberta. … Read more Dr. Toni Samek profiled in U. of Alberta article about teacher-librarian crisis