Archive for the ‘Information Policy’ Category
Creative Commons Touque (Hat)
Posted by: greebie on: November 16, 2009
I love knitting. I love the Creative Commons. I hope wearing this hat will get people asking me about what Creative Commons is.
Do you want to learn more about Creative Commons too? Ok. Try:
Flickr’s Creative Commons Site
An Article showing why Canada should apply Creative Commons licenses to its publications.
BoingBoing.net’s ‘copyfight’ tag that [...]
Libraries are Miscellaneous
Posted by: greebie on: November 12, 2009
With a wide range of ‘things’ happening in and around libraryland, including Library 101, Stephen Abram’s paper on open source (pdf), Mark Albertson’s opinion piece on the changing purpose of libraries, and Laurel Tarulli’s recognition that not everyone fully understands what it is that librarians do. It all leads me to think about the ongoing [...]
Print Media in the Toilet
Posted by: greebie on: April 15, 2009
Today’s local paper had a toilet bowl on the cover. A toilet bowl. Yes, I know the article was about how the new Sewage Treatment plant in Halifax is done broke and won’t be fixed for a while. But guess what? We didn’t have a Sewage Treatment plant attached to the [...]
Sustainability and Libraries: Is Anyone Challenging Our Assumptions about Digitization?
Posted by: greebie on: April 21, 2008
Among the best things about conferences (besides karaoke, right Greg?) are hearing ideas from people you had not previously met. One of the memorable conversations I had was with Sarah Cohen about whether libraries were really on board with the what, whys and hows regarding sustainability. I think we came to the conclusion that libraries [...]
Chiming in On the Biggies
Posted by: greebie on: April 1, 2008
There have been a few, ahem, debates going around and I could make a post on each of them, but things have just been too much in my home life recently, so I’m going to chime in one on one.
MLS or non-MLS?
My favorite call on this issue is coming from Dorothea Salo, but there [...]
Whistleblowing, Ethics, and Internet Use
Posted by: greebie on: March 18, 2008
UPDATE: Since I’m venturing into potentially controversial territory, I thought it would be a good time to remind my readers that this is my commentary on a situation that occurred in a library in California and not necessarily the opinions of my employer. I will say that I believe we are [...]
Does a Fish Know It’s Wet? : Access to Scholarly Journals in Public Libraries
Posted by: greebie on: March 3, 2008
Heather Morrison discusses what she calls an “access gap” for scholarly journals in public libraries. She claims:
The local public library will have interlibrary loan service; however, with limited staffing looking after everything from storytime for preschoolers to special services for teens, adults, seniors, and more, not to mention buying books and running the library, the [...]
The ALA Code is Not Enough: Thoughts and Case Studies on Librarian Ethics
Posted by: greebie on: February 18, 2008
Sarah Houghton-Jan, the illustrious Librarian in Black brought up the issue of ethics in libraries reminding us to post the ALA Code of Ethics on our office walls. She also points to a post by BlogJunction highlighting two other studies
Ethics are extremely important, but I am here to say that a statement of [...]
Swimming the Web
Posted by: greebie on: February 12, 2008
I am a great fan of Judy Blume. So much so that I have started reading her books (somewhat prematurely) to my four-year-old son. The most recent entry is Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great. It was timely, since my four-year-old is now learning to swim.
If you don’t know the book, then suffice it [...]
What am I doing now?
- RyanDeschamps: @moreglen No chance we'll run out of room, so don't worry! It'd be nice if we could get a few 'on the day' sessions. #podcamphfx
- RyanDeschamps: @moreglen Likely next week sometime. But we also have a pre-wiki discussion going on on Wave. (with:public podcamp will find it)
- RyanDeschamps: RT @ALALibrary: RT @amlibraries: ALA: American libraries starved for bandwidth (via Ars Technica): http://cli.gs/DBv7XT See also http:// ...
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