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PLA Blog: tweeting at the conference
This post was originally written for the PLA Blog. ALA holds the copyright to this text; it is reproduced here with permission. Everyone’s been doing such a lovely job of recapping sessions they...
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Preservation: not just letters and photographs, but digital content, too
ALA sent out an email today announcing the addition to the ALA Store of posters and bookmarks for Preservation Week, which is 9-15 May this year. I was disappointed to see that except for the short...
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An older Millennial feels… well, old
I’m one of the oldest of the Millennials, a generation characterized by our comfort and proficiency with computers and the Internet. And while I’m one of the oldest, my dad’s something of a computer...
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Facebook, privacy, and you
I’ve wanted to write a post about Facebook and privacy for some time now, but the more I thought about it the more I wanted to say. Social networking, privacy, and the way people’s behavior changes...
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Privacy follow-up: what you should do, what companies should do
In a discussion on my recent post on Facebook and privacy, Erin linked me to “Privacy Is Dead… And It Could Be Great,” which claims that part of the reason we are more willing to give up our personal...
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YALSA blog: keeping skills fresh between jobs
Fellow SLIS-Indy grads Erin and Karl recently wrote about their job searches: Erin’s put out zillions of applications and hasn’t gotten much back and Karl’s been making do with part-time work but wants...
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Miscellany: authors vs. works, dystopian YA lit at the New Yorker, and online...
Wired’s Mr. Know-It-All argues for differentiating the author from the work in a recent column and also touches on how hard it is to keep kids from reading what they want: The bottom line is that many...
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YALSA blog: the larger social effect of the Internet
Now that the YALSA blog’s 28 Days of Teens and Tech is drawing to a close, I thought it might be interesting to pull back a little and look at the larger social effect of the Internet on society. There...
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When you can’t choose privacy
As part of its Privacy Revolution efforts, ALA declared last week Choose Privacy Week, with this year’s efforts focusing on youth and privacy. If you dig into the websites and publicity around the...
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Library Day in the Life Project, Round 7: Day 3
Logo designed by and stolen from the Indie Librarian I’m participating in the Library Day in the Life Project (now in its seventh round) this week. To quote the project wiki, “the Library Day in the...
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