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Blogging Librarians
“[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.”
—Michael Moore, Buzzflash.com, March 13, 2002
It’s true. Librarians are... 
“[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.”
—Michael Moore, Buzzflash.com, March 13, 2002
It’s true. Librarians are up to a lot more than you might think. Keeping up with the ever-changing world of information technology, fighting the PATRIOT Act or aiding political protestors, librarians do a lot more than check out books. Copyright, intellectual freedom, public health, historic preservation—name any issue, librarians are involved, somehow, some way.
Not surprisingly, the members of this profession based on information have a substantial Internet presence. And one of the quickest ways to get an overview of librarians' work, the issues they face, and get a glimpse of them as real human beings, is to read their blogs. From Massachusetts to Singapore, librarians write about their work, their interests, and their ideas. Start reading:you’ll learn a lot about computer technology, books, politics, you’ll get glimpses into the minds of the some of the funniest, smartest, quirkiest around—and maybe, just maybe, you’ll be in on the ground floor when the revolution comes.
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Congratulations to Radical Reference mainstay Lia Friedman and her pal Char Booth for authoring the May 15th 2008 Library Journal NextGen column, "Finding Your Inner Moxie."
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Today is an Amnesty International rallying day for human rights. I found out about it through a Facebook promotion: Bloggers Unite for Human Rights. The topic that I, as a blogger, would like to highlight is the continued censorship in China, particularly internet censorship. The filtering, blocking, and...
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Jacob Gube, at Six Revisions, has put out a list of Six Incredibly Useful Tools for Evaluating a Web Design. As our library is getting ready for a redesign ourselves, this is a handy list of tools to check out. Measuring what the current site is doing wrong is important to making the next site do it right.
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Stephen Francoeur writes about his library's successful long-term reference staff blog with content like technical support alerts and resolutions, resource suggestions, training tips, reference question Q&A, and more. The blog, Reference at the Newman Library (at Baruch College), has been around since 2004...
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David Lee King writes about some thoughts he has after reading a blog post and listening to a PLA presentation that touched on engaging with local blogs in your own community. He lists some ways that library staff can be proactively interactive with these users (or potential users, as the case may be).
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The Primary Research Group has published the 2008/2009 edition of Library Use of E-books. You can read some of the key findings on their website, but the full study costs $75. From their description of the study:Data in the report is based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries. Librarians detail...
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DefectiveByDesign.org, a campaign from the Free Software Foundation, protested outside of the Boston Public Library for offering digital content with digital rights management attached to it. They then expanded that complaint to all libraries, asking library users to sign letters and send them to their local libraries.&...
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A law librarian/attorney has created a Homeless Law Blog to share legal expertise for the homeless (and presumably those who wish to help them).
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I’ll be interested to see this game from the Orange County Library System (FL) when it becomes available on May 15.
Citricon: Library Defender
Watch for more in a couple of days at http://www.ocls.info/citricon/ .
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Check out this inspiring video of Clay Shirky at the San Francisco Web 2.0 Expo. I felt better about what I do for a living instantly :)