Paul Gandel, CIO at Syracuse University, just published an essay (in the strangely archaic PDF format) about the future of libraries. I had a number of “clicks” during this essay. The part that went bing-bing-bing: “It is no longer unusual to hear about people who prefer to buy a book online and have it delivered […]
I am not going anywhere. If I tried to leave my job, particularly right now, I can think of a dozen people who would hunt me down and bring me back. So don’t take this as some kind of broad hint. I just thought about the issue of being the former employee because I had […]
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It’s good to hear (other) library administrators blogging, particularly Michael Golrick. But he’s overwrought about the resolution Council just passed on free expression. The resolution doesn’t tell chapters what to do. It reaffirms ALA’s policy within light of recent threats to free expression. It couldn’t be any milder in terms of direction without “dumbing it […]
As I was heading out to the fog and friction of ALA I learned a fine young library Turk had come up with a clever idea for converting RSS feeds from My Place of Work into MARC format, for import into library catalogs. I saw a couple of issues, including the lack of coordination with […]
I was shamed into this post yesterday at the Mountain View Public Library. While the guy at the circ desk boinked my books under the barcode reader, he asked, “So Link Plus, it’s good, huh?” Oh yeah, I said. “We can get you books from all over, at no cost to you,” he added very […]
Roy Tennant got some good press from Steven Bell in the latest Library Journal. Bell, tilting after something he calls “Google-style librarianship,” said Tennant’s aphorism, “librarians like to search, everyone else wants to find,” “suggests that librarians are out of touch with popular culture.” Bell presses on, “But can you really find anything without searching […]
Blaise Cronin has never struck me as Indiana’s answer to Ranganathan, and his latest lame attempt to be a Gorman wannabe doesn’t change my opinion. But this is not Croningate; it’s just another example of bad library writing. Cronin’s screed was written the way most anti-blog pieces are written. I just heard about blogs, the […]
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:
“In the end, then, instruction in information literacy will have to pervade every level of education and every course in the curriculum, from university historians’ use of collections of online slave narratives to middle-school home economics teachers showing their students where to find reliable nutrition information on the Web.” — Geoffrey Nunberg, “Teaching Students to […]