Archive for 'Worth Reading'
Another Meaning of “Access”
Pardon me while my head explodes.
The word “access” is one with generally good connotations among librarians. It’s in a lot of mission statements. It takes on a more mercenary meaning when it refers to the relationship between the press and power. And The New York Times has a very scary story about it today. [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on April 20th, 2008 under Information Ethics, Political political, Worth Reading.
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Top Ten Assumptions Morphs Into ACRL Environmental Scan 2007
If you happened to look over the just released ACRL Environmental Scan 2007 it may have looked familiar. That’s because it is a beefier version of the previously released “Top Ten Assumptions About the Future” which came out around the end of March (there was a session about the assumptions at ACRL in Baltimore). And [...]
Posted by StevenB on January 14th, 2008 under ACRL News, Worth Reading.
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Ketchup is a Form of Exercise
Catching up on a couple of previous posts . . .
There are two must-read discussions over at if:book on the NEA’s latest threnody for reading. The first looks at Matthew Kirschenbaum’s interesting take, previously published in the Chronicle. The NEA report assumes one sort of reading - solitary, linear, purposeless, and sustained. Yet there [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on December 1st, 2007 under Books, Information Literacy, Privacy, Worth Reading.
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Those Canadian Academic Librarians Are Shakin’ Up The Shelves
Some might accuse ACRLog of ignoring what’s happening in academic librarianship north of the border. Well, it’s time for some well-deserved recognition. University Affairs (or Affaires Universitaires for you folks from Quebec) , which appears to be the Canadian equivalent of University Business, features an article about the “New Librarians” in their December 2007 issue [...]
Posted by StevenB on November 8th, 2007 under Administration/Leadership, Worth Reading.
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Coffee House or Library?
Why not both?
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, professor of English and Media Studies at Pomona College, discusses the social future of books in an article that has just appeared in the Journal of Electronic Publishing (which is published by the University of Michigan library’s Scholarly Publishing Office). Fitzpatrick examines CommentPress, an open source blog-like extension of digital [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on October 15th, 2007 under Books, Scholarly Communications, Worth Reading.
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