A flyer being distributed not too far from here, prior to a library board meeting: “We are coming to take back the library from the outsiders and technocrats. They are a discredit to Berkeley’s radical history–the library should be a place to get get away from the invasion of technology. And the workers are [...]
Tags: Librarianship
This started as a you-post-for-me comment at Meredith’s blog… but why not post it here and get the link juice?
Back in 1992, I believe it was, Jean Armour Polly, one of the pioneers of the Internet in libraries (back when that was tantamount to suggesting beer in libraries), wrote (and I paraphrase, badly) that [...]
Tags: Librarianship
I could not figure out what the dilly-o was in San Francisco as I drove in 90 minutes late for Michael Porter’s Keep Up! presentation, even though I grew up in this city and have been watching the news pretty carefully. Another student turned to me and said, “Hello, it’s April 18!”
Some people celebrate [...]
Tags: Hot Tech
Go down Moses, way down in Grantistan! Tell your people, don’t forget to sign the form…
It’s only 9:22 p.m. and after my final siege, a 14-hour marathon, I’ve finished and emailed off what I think is a coherent draft of our annual grant from the Powers that Be, complete with Budget, numbers that jive, [...]
Tags: Hot Tech
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Chris Rose: 1 Dead in Attic, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.
“They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. And stories about refrigerators.” — Chris Rose
Chris Rose was a [...]
Tags: FRL Spotlight Reviews
Stephen Abrams has an interesting post, itself a riff on a post by Cory Doctorow, about the rise in blog usage.
Here at FRL, which is more of a personal blog rather than one heavily promoted and marketed, I can see the blog-as-trend phenom in action. Look at the statistics for freerangelibrarian.com for the first [...]
Tags: Blogging
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Hey! This is MY office!, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.
So I come back from a tea-making trip to discover that MPOW Central was under occupation. Not only that, but after the bird finally decided to leave, it continued to [...]
Tags: MPOW
“But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also…” Matthew 5.34-44
Yeah, it’s a little late, I know, but sometimes there’s a reason for when things happen.
This year, for Lent, I didn’t give up blogging, or ALA, or chocolate, or People Magazine, or dark beer. I did intend to give up [...]
Tags: This and That
Spied on Michael Golrick’s blog: “I do see that blogging represents a use of library technology sufficient to warrant a LITA Interest Group, if anyone wanted to start one.”
Thought I’d point out that LITA does have a blogging IG: BIGWIG. (Full disclosure: I co-chair it. Second disclosure: we’re hosting a fab program at Annual. Third [...]
Tags: American Liberry Ass'n
Mark Lindner asks why ALA should have a Bloggers’ Roundtable, an idea that Michael Golrick posed. In response to another blogger’s question, yes, if the roundtable were large enough, it would have a full vote on Council, and its own Councilor; and if it were not, it would have partial representation through what I call [...]
Tags: American Liberry Ass'n