The “Books not Bombs” National Day of Action is tomorrow, the 4th. I’d love to say I was planning something, but I just heard about it. While the action is fairly wide in scope, the USA PATRIOT Act is definitely on the agenda.
Month: March 2004
paper topics for thoughtful MLISers
Library Juice offers a list of paper topics to get library school students and faculty really thinking about library issues. It had been posted before, but now will be updated from time to time.
“What does “agribusiness versus farming” offer as an analogy to commodified versus community-based information and communication?”
Stealthy RFID
San Francisco Public Library tells voters it will hold a public forum to discuss RFID technology before it goes on the budget and then … doesn’t.
“City Librarian Susan Hildreth … downplayed the decision to include RFID funding in the library budget, because the action can be reversed at a later Library Commission meeting.”
hi – 02mar
Hi. I resigned from the ALA Website Advisory Committee today, preferring to focus my website reform efforts from within ALA Council. I haven’t been feeling that effective lately, and my personal threshold of “how long I think I should have to wait for change to come” is significantly shorter than most people who are used to working for ALA. This made me impatient and grouchy and not a helpful team player in the long path to getting the ALA website accessible, functional and user-friendly. As always, I encourage people to send feedback to the ALA webteam, as I have constantly done, they really are trying to make the best of a bad situation.
redesign and anniversary for Constant Reader
The Constant Reader is four years old this week.