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A post a few weeks back by Rory Litwin at the Library Juice blog asked,
What is the coolest library/info related book or article (or blog post, I guess) that you have read in the past year or so? Post something in the comments here – I am hoping we end up with a nice, [...]
stop talking about filtering content
Last week the Supreme Court of Washington, the state, not the district ruled that it was ok for a library to user filtering software on its public computers.
The problem was that the North Central Regional Library District filtered things that people wanted to look at, like Women & Guns magazine. The challenge was that [...]
felipe carrillo: a mild goose chase
She’s Mayan. Her face, and the face of her child, are variations on the iconography in Mayan glyphs. She’s in a factory - some raw materials are being processed. I’m not sure what’s in her basket, but political posters are on the wall: Viva Felipe Carrillo, perhaps something about a Mayan cooperative, and one other [...]
bound
From some point after its incoporation to the early 80s, the Library Association of Portland, which later became Multnomah County Library, operated its own bindery. Besides visually and texturally uniting runs of periodicals and sets of reference books on the shelves, the bindery, together with the mending department, breathed new life into well-read books.
Some of [...]
More books about books
The book I’m almost finished with now is Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain by Maryanne Wolf. Wolf is a neuroscientist who studies dyslexia, which she says is catch-all phrase for problems learning to read.
I’m not terribly impressed with it - the opening chapters make weak and culturally [...]
mobots4lib
One thing can lead to another, and it usually does. My last aside questioned David Weinberger’s quote in American Libraries that humans are hard-wired to externalize knowledge (e.g. writing), and suggested that it must have a social basis instead. I wanted to learn more and began reading Being there: putting rain, body, and world together [...]
lists of listmakers and the lists they make
My attention span is dwindling.
A few weeks ago - no - a week? I don’t know.
Recently, Twitter started letting you make lists. I sort of wondered, why?
Well I guess we all have different strategies for monitoring our social networks. I have a friend who only follows 50 people on Twitter. I’m not one [...]
adventures with Aardvark
i signed up with the q/a service Aardvark a few months ago out of curiosity and some professional sense of “i should know about this”. my experiences with it have ranged from unremarkable to amusing to somewhat upsetting. I know a lot of librarians out there “slam the boards” or otherwise participate in non-library question [...]
geocities, you will not be forgotten
I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the passing of Geocities. This coming Sunday, October 26th, Yahoo! is shutting down the site for good. I am not going to tell you I learned HTML with Geocities, or wax nostalgic on how awesome it was that they let anyone have a website for free, [...]
YOUR STUPID LIBRARY BRANDING HERE pts. 1 and 2
Aaron wrote recently about EBSCOHost Connection, a service from EBSCO that puts their source material into search engines, then lets end users log in through their library.
Nice idea. It’s something I’m interested in: how do we get the library materials into the search engines?
Sometimes you see hits from JSTOR or PubMed also, and searching around, [...]
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