Librarians, generally speaking, were the weird kids growing up. Quiet, bookish, more interested in fantasy worlds than the real one. Then we grew up, became librarians and found Our Tribe. I remember how excited I was on my first day of library school when I looked around my classroom and realized that I wasn’t the Read the full post…
Disruption is definitely the hot term du jour. It mostly is a fancy way of saying “change”, but that doesn’t quite do it justice. Go read this wonderful post by Jordan Furlong on “What Disruption Really Means.” Go on. I’ll wait. As with change, many people view disruption as one would a cloud of locusts Read the full post…
This is the type of blog post I don’t like to write because basically all I’m doing is complaining about something. In my world, complaining is the first step in a multipart process. First you complain, then you look for soluti0ns, then you implement the solutions and finally review the results. Repeat as necessary. Essentially Read the full post…
October 7, 2011 is Ada Lovelace Day, an annual celebration of women in the STEM disciplines. It was created after a psychological study showed that women need role models to believe that they can do something. I love this day. Obviously, it’s a lot of fun to give props to people and tell them how Read the full post…
As I was telling one of my correspondents yesterday, it feels like a weird coincidence somehow that the AALL Vendor Colloquium, The Harvard/Berkman Center Digital Library Project planning meeting, and the Harper Collins Boycott debate all happened at the same time. Each one is touching on just a segment of the larger issue, to wit, Read the full post…
A few weeks ago, I was minding my own business and spending a lovely Winter Saturday antiquing in the Indiana countryside. The owner of one of the shops I like to visit keeps a small dog with her and the person ahead of me in line struck up a conversation about the animal. This then Read the full post…
At least once a week, if not once a day, I am offered the opportunity receive a stolen good. No, Valparaiso, Indiana has not become a hotbed of criminal activity. This all happens on the Internet. Someone mentions that they just heard a great album and they offer to dropbox it. Or a livejournal community Read the full post…
