Thursday, October 31, 2013

Data and the Surveillance State: Toward a New Ecology of Libraries

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Image from the film The Lives of Others . It's excellent. Go see it .  Years from now, we're going to need someone to help us ma...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Dear Aspiring Librarians (On MLIS Program Placement and Salaries)

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Let's revisit the US News and World Report rankings for Masters of Library and Information Science programs. The rankings: Source i...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Your Special Collections Won't Save You

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There are people who need a unique item to do research, but those people won't save your library. The same is true of your special co...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

The End of "The End of Libraries"

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On Sunday, October 14th, yet another "End of Libraries" piece appeared. Per usual, it was written by a white male with no use for ...
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Don't Say it With Flowers...

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This is how libraries die, not by fire or flood, but by neglect. Long slow deaths. The ancient world's greatest library didn't ...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Atoms for Peace at the Patriot Center, Fairfax, VA, 9/30/13

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Every so often I like to play  music blogger  and I'm lucky I have some friends who will indulge me. On Monday I attended an Atoms f...
Monday, September 23, 2013

The "Digital Natives" Myth and Library Science Education

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Repeat after me: There is no such thing as a "digital native." Good. Now that we all agree this group of people doesn't ex...
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