This humorous “news” item (PDF) was worth sharing. It speaks not only to baseball fans like myself because of recent controversies in baseball with the likes of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, but also to libraries and librarians because it tries to point out (humorously) the importance of the work that librarians do. It takes [...]
It’s been a little more than a year now since I started this blog. It started out on a different blog system and got transferred to WordPress in June of last year. And, I think I’ve had fairly good success attracting people to this site. I have been referenced on “Googlization of [...]
Part I. Many people don’t really know how much it costs for us to maintain our collection. It’s easy for someone to complain that we (or any other library) don’t have all the resources that they want. Some may complain that they have to send for it through interlibrary loan or they give [...]
Today is one of those days that my brain is just not working. So, here’s an interesting story & blog for you to consider. Shelby Monroe, a librarian, has been embedded with the 101st Airborne over in Iraq twice and has been blogging and writing for newspapers about her experiences while in Iraq. [...]
Just yesterday I read that faculty in the Arts and Sciences at Harvard will have the option of opting out of an open access distribution plan for articles they write. What was surprising to me was that it was unanimously accepted by the Arts & Sciences faculty. It’s also worth reading Robert Darnton’s [...]
