Tag Archives: technology
TV and the Internet
“If television’s a babysitter, the internet’s a drunk librarian who won’t shut up.”
– Text of a sticker available through the Cat and Girl webcomic store.
I also like the one that says, “My other car is a Pynchon novel.”
Wordle: Cymbeline
Yeah, like a lot of other library people, I’ve been having way too much fun with Wordle. Here’s the text of Cymbeline, one of my favorite plays by Shakespeare.
What I find fascinating about this is that “Imogen” actually appears larger than “Cymbeline” (and larger than any tag for a male character), and it’s actually the [...]
Internet Privacy
A library system in Ohio is taking aggressive action to combat digital porn in its libraries, possibly installing software which would allow library staff to view a screenshot of what a patron is looking at on their computer, presumably to determine whether it’s objectionable or not.
Elaine doesn’t like it, and neither do I. And while [...]
MALA / SLA Spring 2008
This past Thursday, I was invited to speak at a panel discussion for a joint meeting of MALA (the Metro Atlanta Library Association) and the Georgia chapter of the SLA (the Special Libraries Association). I had the great honor of presenting on Web 2.0 technologies and public libraries with Laura Savastinuk, co-author of the [...]
Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
The March 2008 edition of First Monday is a special issue: “Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0.” For the theorist in (any of) you, this really is some amazing stuff to read. I personally recommend “Interactivity is Evil! A critical investigation of Web 2.0” by Kylie Jarrett. It basically applies and (re)interprets Foucault’s [...]
NIN and ILI for YA
Yeah, I was curious how many abbreviations I could squeeze into that post title.
Anyway, here’s a great idea from Jeff over at Alt Teen Services:
Teaching information literacy skills is an important role for YA librarians. Educating teens about such issues as intellectual property rights, digital rights management (DRM) and the law can often come across [...]