Tuesday, December 27, 2005
OCLC is again hosting a Blog Salon at ALA, this time 6 p.m. Sunday. I’ll be there! Bookmark to:
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Dan Walters, current president of the Public Library Association, has tossed his hat into the ongoing discussion about compensating speakers invited to present at ALA and divisional conferences. Walters’ response is predictable, but it’s not accurate. I call it predictable because the party line for the last several weeks has been that the glory of […]
Thursday, December 15, 2005
I thought the holidays would be blogging catch-up time, but in all honesty, my 78-year-old mother has been ill and that has taken up all the slack in my life. She’s doing much better, thank you, but you can understand how a blog can drift away while I’m doing the delicate dance of work and […]
Michael reports that Alan says that Leslie Burger has resumed blogging. Yay Leslie! I concur with Michael that her post about talking to strangers on ALA buses is fun and on target (and in its own way tied in with all that Web 2.0 discussion; after all, the human brain is still the best social […]
Monday, November 21, 2005
Do you know what that book even is? It’s a 200-plus page handbook automatically distributed to every ALA member who is on a committee or in some governance role (for example, on Council). It is also a sacred cow, a third rail of Council, at least where the idea of producing it any other way […]
So here I am at the fall meeting of ALA muckety-mucks (division presidents and councilors, Executive Board, etc.) and we’re finally getting down to brass tacks: as an association, what drives us, and what holds us back? It was gratifying to hear nearly every division say: technology. (Not the only answer, but a biggy.) We […]
Thursday, October 27, 2005
This week I had to do a presentation at the Internet Librarian conference about ethics and blogging. In preparing for this talk, I spent a fair amount of time trying to move beyond the utilitarian rationales for ethical behavior so that I could explain what it means in the universal sense to have an obligation […]
Saturday, October 22, 2005
My extended grousing about keeping ALA Council in the loop notwithstanding, I want to underscore that I agree with the decision to keep the conference in New Orleans. I’m sure it will be good for New Orleans, and it will help rebuild the economy. (You must all be aware that among the thousands of city […]
Note: the actual date of the EB conference call was 10/12, not 10/11. ALA had sent out a message in error but not in time to correct it for its digest subscribers. I still squint at that chronology, but what the hell. So this morning I find out that ALA will, indeed, hold its annual […]
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
https://secure.ga3.org/03/alakatrina Thankfully, the powers that be at ALA have finally developed an online tool for donating to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. People have short attention spans, and the agencies that are visible the earliest, and provide the easiest tools for online giving, have the advantage. I am sorry to see the online donation tool […]
