Finally, some results–and what do we see? Participation is down. (Or something else is going on… I don’t even want to think about that.) The polls opened on almost the same day both years, btw. Come on folks, jump in and cast those ballots! While you’re at it, vote for Christine Hage for ALA president. […]
Mitch Albom is getting a drubbing for concocting a piece about a game he hadn’t (yet) attended and filing the story without waiting to see if it would turn true. He got caught when he guessed wrong who would be at the game. He swears it’s the only time it’s happened. Gee, I hope so. […]
Last year, the first year of e-voting, ALA gave us weekly updates on electoral participation, which I posted on this blog. This year, after several requests for information, we had a post on Council list dated March 24 in which we were assured we’d be updated “next week.” Twice since then I’ve politely requested this […]
See Google’s banner for National Library Week. Not only that, if you click on Google’s banner, you get a list of news items related to National Library Week! Cool beans, Googlefolk. (Found by way of the LITA-L discussion list, from Michele R.) Bookmark to:
By way of Countercolumn, I read that Joseph Galloway of the Detroit Free Press makes a case for improving veterans’ benefits. I’ll go farther than that. We want an all-volunteer military with high-quality recruits who will serve out their full terms. We ask young people to put their lives on the line on our behalf […]
Below are some of the blogs I track (through a blogroll generated by Bloglines, that Swiss army knife of blog reading). If you’re new to blogging, this may seem like a lot of reading. Skim, I say, skim! I don’t read all of these blogs religiously (or obsessively, depending on your take). I hone in […]
(Update: I’ve set up the wiki so all pages are viewable and also taught myself a little about linking.) After a week of rain, the sun is splashing puddles of light on the patio, my miniature roses are shyly unfurling their first buds (appropriately, Sunny Day is the first to flower each spring), and the […]
ALA President Carol Brey-Casiano has come out with a brisk and articulate retort to FBI Director Mueller’s statement that library records aren’t protected. “Library records are, in fact, protected by written laws. In 48 states, laws declare that a person’s library records are private and confidential; the remaining two states, Kentucky and Hawaii, have attorneys’ […]
Thanks for all the tips. We had several people take casual looks at the code, and one gentleman take a hard look; he is now busily writing up a report. The findings were almost identical across the board. Bookmark to:
Pew Internet & American Life responded to comments from the blogosphere that its report on podcasting may be erroneous. They are standing by their data. Two brief thoughts on that. (Yes, I did read their memo, repeatedly.) First, and I make this deliberately broad, the report shows a lot of people are using MP3 players […]