Lots of interesting stuff in this week’s Chron on technology and libraries. One piece in particular is a paranoid’s dream. James G. Neal, in “Information Anarchy or Information Utopia?” offers a long list of our current phobias. Now I’m worried because hardly any of this stuff frightens me. An example: “The relationships between libraries and [...]

Have you been following conversations about Web 2.0 and Library 2.0? While I don’t think they will change your world, the papers and subsequent discussions are of interest and make for some worthwhile reading. As I read the materials my main impression is, “Hmm, this sounds vaguely familiar, sort of like the things academic librarians [...]

There is an ongoing conversation/movement within our professional community that I refer to as “Googlelization“. I define it as the desire to make traditional library databases – and you can throw OPACs in there too – look, act, and feel just like Google. The rationale of the Googlelizers is that today’s information seeker simply wants [...]