Author: jessamyn

what else do the filters filter?

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What do a hotel chain and the public library system of Georgia have in common? They’re both using SmartFilter which, among other things, blocks access to blogging tools.

“I'[ve] often jokingly comparing bloggers to pamphleteers of yore, but within blogging there are definitely some significant cases where people have a message to get out that can change the world. To find out that an institution of democracy like a library might be barring someone from sharing their perspective with the world saddens me.”

ADD librarian requests ADA accomodation and sort of gets them

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Long poignant story about a librarian and others who do [and lose] their jobs while having attention deficit disorder.

By April, it was clear that the fight was over. [The librarian] was told that she had taken too much time with too little result preparing a display for Black History Month and too little time updating the library’s emergency and disaster manuals. She had introduced items in meetings that were not on the agenda. She had recommended the purchase of books without realizing that the library had already ordered them. She had recommended the purchase of electronic devices without first conferring with the electronic-services librarian. (”Your response when I questioned your recommendation was, ‘Whoops!”’)