Posts Tagged ‘ Librarianship ’
I just joined the Q Center Library Board, and I am really excited about the projects we are undertaking at this new community library. The library currently houses a very specialized transgendered reference collection, but we hope to expand the collection and create a welcoming space for people to do research or general reading. We’ll [ READ MORE ]
This news might be a little old, but I just wanted to comment on the RIAA’s move to stop bankrupting college students in piracy accusations by allowing ISPs to monitor bittorrent pirates. It’s about frackin’ time! The RIAA has effectively helped create a pirate nation, in the process pushing away the one demographic group that [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been thinking about the practice of fansubbing and what the public library’s role is in providing access to them. Basically, there is a lot of anime out there that has not been licensed for use in the United States. In order to provide access to it, fans create subtitles for them, which is I’m [ READ MORE ]
If you have seen the “Shoes” video on YouTube and you are a library nerd like me, then I am sure you will appreciate this vid, shot at the Multnomah County Library[ READ MORE ]
Defective by Design has started a campaign to put an end to the use of DRMs in libraries’ digital collections. DRM (Digital Rights Management) technologies do functions like not allowing you to share your media or making the media non-functional after a certain number of days. Basically all of the major music companies that utilized [ READ MORE ]
Prisons work on a reward and punishment system in which inmates with “good” behavior are allowed to partake in activities and library time, while those with “bad” behaviors are denied these benefits. This is to discourage disruptive and disobedient culture in the prison, but in reality it is preventing people, especially those with mental health [ READ MORE ]
As a volunteer at the OLA/ WLA Joint Conference this year, I got to experience a little bit of the chaos and glory that is a library convention. But as soon as my 4-hour volunteer shift was over, I was kicked to the curb: Even though I had been a showcase organizer, I wasn’t allowed [ READ MORE ]
Orson Scott card was recently awarded the Margaret A. Edwards award for “lifetime achievement in writing for young adults”, and I am sort of torn on the issue. It is really hard for me to justify the ALA’s stance in looking at books for the merit of the writing, and to ignore the personal politics [ READ MORE ]
So POPLINE, “the world’s largest database on reproductive health”, has fixed their horrible decision to ban word ‘abortion’ from the search engine. This is excellent news, but why the hell did they do it in the first place? I’m glad people caught on to this and called them out so they had to fess up [ READ MORE ]
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