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Five Things You Can't Say About Libraries, Librarians, and Library School
As with any sector, there are a lot of unchallenged statements, pieces of accepted wisdom and politically incorrect sentiments in the library world that seem to be lurking just beneath the surface. But for a profession concerned with freedom of expression and sharing of information, this restraint seems to be especially preposterous. So here are […]
"Should We Be Surprised? After All, Librarians Donated to Kerry Over Bush By A Ratio of 223:1"
“Librarians are extremely liberal and, thanks to our tax dollars, insulated from their consumers' preferences.” The National Post looks at the bias against conservative books in bookstores and public libraries in an article titled “Ignoring Canada's Conservative Readers”. (Thanks to Christina W. for the tip!) (By the way, the second last book I read […]
What's In A Name?
Here at library school, we talk a lot about what we call things. Patrons or customers or clients or users (or even neighbours as one classmate suggested.) You also have libraries or resource centres or information centres or Idea Stores.The trend seems to be towards taking the traditional terms – “library” and “patron” – out of […]
Librarian Activist
Just a reminder that if you like reading this site (or if you don't and want something with more 100% library-related content with zero tangents about baby poop, Fred Eaglesmith and Saskatchewan), you might also want to boomark LibrarianActivist.org (or add it to your RSS reader.) Sabina's back in radio contact after being without Internet […]
Friday Fun Link – International Children's Digital Library (Nov 17, 2006)
“The International Children’s Digital Library was initially created by an interdisciplinary research team at the University of Maryland in cooperation with the Internet Archive. Members of the team include computer scientists, librarians, educational technologists, classroom teachers, graphic designers, and graduate students from the University of Maryland’s (UMD) College of Information Studies (CLIS) and the UMD […]
A Tale of Two (Four?) Libraries – It was the worst and worst of times then the best and best of times
Not very often but sometimes, I really don't like libraries.I was over at the University today for a group meeting and afterwards, went to the Business Library because the catalogue showed that they (as well as our main library Weldon, the Taylor library and a few others in the system had a copy of a […]
OLA SuperConference 2007 Program Released
If you're an OLA member, you might have received a copy of the 2007 SuperConference program in the mail today. If not, FIMS alum, Jennifer Cyr (aka Canuck Librarian) has a link to the conference program on her blog as well as some thoughts (Jen's on the conference planning committee.)I was able to attend for […]
WIFI@yourlibrary
Our genealogy class got out early today so that people could either work on assignments, do research or come down to LPL to vist the “London Room”, the library's local history room. I'd seen the room briefly during our LPL tour in Public Libraries class but had a couple hours to kill before I had […]
Public Service v. The Bottom Line
LPL recently, and without much fanfare, switched from sending out overdue notices a week (!) after a book came due to sending a notice two days in advance of your books coming due. It's a small change, very easy to do with ILS software these days apparently, but one that shows that even in a […]