I try to keep Free Range Librarian very, very separate from my work life (notwithstanding my tendency to draft posts in between finishing sections of long projects, as I did today–sort of like tossing a sardine to a seal). However, I can’t resist noting that Librarians’ Index to the Internet now offers a native RSS […]
Well, durned if Monika Antonelli, ALA Councilor, doesn’t do voices for anime! See: http://www.ntdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/01/21/400e25306b715 Bookmark to:
I have absolutely no, zero, graphic skills. As a signature graphic for this site, I would love an elegant, old-tymey black and white image of a chicken (perhaps wearing glasses?) to enhance this site. Anyone have a particularly nice public-domain graphic to offer? Bookmark to:
Here’s another bug up my fanny about ALA and technology, and one I’ve been battling for at least seven years. We don’t broadcast the ALA Council transcripts, and we don’t make them available online. Before you step up and say, “but gee–that sounds expensive,” let me tell you what we do spend money on. If […]
This is a report on ALA Council from Jim Casey, ALA Councilor at Large, PUBLIB member, and director of the Oak Lawn (IL) Public Library. Jim does such a thorough job with his ALA reports that I really can’t top what he has to say (even when I disagree with him–and we sat next to […]
I just added a blogroll featuring the library-related sites I subscribe to via RSS. That’s the good news. (Or it’s the good news if you remotely care what I read.) The bad news is this addition to the meandering left column of FRL makes it even more painfully clear that I need to redesign this […]
Just one week after Wired broke news of greatly intensified crackdowns on Internet access in Cuba, IFLA took action in a strongly-worded press release. Bookmark to:
I am posting this message verbatim. I have a lot to say about it, but I thought it would be worth putting it out there for you to read “as-is.” Well, I’ll make this one comment–the U.S. embargo didn’t “cause” the arrest of the Cuban dissidents. That’s “post hoc, ergo propter hoc” logic, and it […]
Not too surprisingly, the amendment (Council Document 55.1) was voted down. It was felt that the report “finesses” the complex Cuban situation. Councilors called for us to “stay away” from foreign relations. I will withdraw the resolution; it doesn’t make sense to have this conversation again later this morning. ALA has spoken. I don’t call […]
If you folks can believe this, a resolution to rescind the ALA motto was defeated. The Pleistocenes on Council reared their heads and noticed that Janet Swan Hill (who received my vote for EB) had proposed we finally kill this tagline, first introduced when Benjamin Harrison was president: “The best reading, for the largest number, […]