Archive for the ‘librarianship’ Category
Friday, August 8th, 2008
All my blogging for the past couple of weeks has been on the blog of the Cornette Library of West Texas A&M University, where I work as a reference librarian. All of my productive efforts on the web at home in the evening this week has revolved around trying to ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Barely a night had passed after I wrote a post criticizing James Taranto's attack on Judith Flint and librarians in general, which hinged on the role of search warrants and the principle of privacy, before I discovered the next morning a post on Boing Boing pointing toward a panel video ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
A few days ago, my mother sent me an article about a librarian in Vermont who drew some attention when police sought to seize the computers from the public library where she works and she required a court order first. This seemed pretty basic to me. As a commenter of ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
A few months ago I had occasion to compare the way different libraries catalog the same book and so was opening from WorldCat some records in catalogs I'd probably never otherwise mess with. One of those catalogs was that of Kansas State University. Examining the holdings record for the book, ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
While I was in library school at Pitt, I was pretty non-committal about what sort of library I was headed for after finishing the degree. A number of people I knew were particularly intent on a public library or an academic library, and a few were even specifically inclined to ...
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