The Curmudgeonly Librarian points us to two new photo pools on Flickr: Librarians in Glasses (started by Rochelle) and Modified Librarians.
If you’ve never played around with Flickr, it’s great fun–and, as Aaron Schmidt points out in the little technology pull-out section of the latest Library Journal, it’s a great way to get photos into […]
This morning on Chicago Public Radio there was a pretty good story on the 1995 heat wave [Real Audio file] that killed over 700 people, the majority of them poor and elderly people who had no access to air-conditioning. I haven’t yet read Eric Klinenberg’s Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of the Disaster in Chicago, […]
The fall schedule of courses is finally available (special bonus: spring 2006 is also up).* Registration hasn’t started, and I haven’t been able to retrieve my pin (and, interestingly, Firefox gave me a number of warnings about entering an insecure site), but at least one can now begin to plan one’s schedule.
I checked the LISSA […]
Just in case you can’t get enough grokkin’:
American Libraries’ news brief on the (somewhat disappointing) ALA reaction
Siva Vaidhyanathan’s article in Salon.com, his sugggestions for background reading and analysis, and an amusing tidbit he dug up
The Mad Librarian’s initial musings on the ruling
The Grokster ruling and DRM, from DRMblog.com
and finally, Seth Finkelstein is always worth reading, […]
I actually got randomly selected for this several weeks ago, but now that all the cool kids (plus more I can’t track down now) are putting the link up on their sites, I just had to, too.
Here’s part 1 of this report.
We all know that the most common question at the reference desk is “Where is the bathroom?” But what’s the most common question if you’re serving as a librarian on the street? The next presentation at Fostering Civic Engagement had the answer.
Jenna Freedman talked about Radical Reference: “serving activist communities […]
Jessamyn beat me to the news, but I have been meaning for some time to point to a recent post about the library job market (from an Australian perspective) by my friend Morgan over at explodedlibrary.info. (For more on the same, you can visit the very first post on this blog [she said, shamelessly]).
As […]
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Before you get too deeply ensconced in worrying about the fate of Roe v. Wade et al. in the wake of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirment, please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with two extremely important decisions handed down by the Supremes this past Monday.
The Grokster case you probably know a bit about […]