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…
The following is a transcript of my plenary talk at the 2013 Canadian Association of Law Libraries annual meeting. The topic I was asked to speak on is “The Future of Law Libraries” and I have two titles: (1) What if They Gave a Revolution and Nobody Came? or (with a nod to Jonathan Zittrain) 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…
“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, Read the full post…
In light of recent events, I’ve heard the word “hacker” (and permutations like “hacktivist”) used by the mainstream media more than I ever have. Despite its near ubiquitousness in any story mentioning technology and social activism, the term “hacker” still, by and large, has negative connotations. Most people think of someone like our friend pictured Read the full post…
So I meant to write this post about a month ago. I mean to do a lot of things nowadays that don’t quite happen when I want or the way I want. Besides, there was a chance the world was going to end on the 21st and why waste the last few minutes of my Read the full post…
I’ve been wanting to write this post since I got back from LVI2012, but well…things happen. At least in my delay all of the videos of the presentations from LVI are now up AND it’s been announced that there will be an LVI2013 in Jersey. Not the Snookie one, the island in between England and Read the full post…
