If you’ve got a few minutes please consider helping out one of my colleagues with her survey. Hello, We’d like your input on diversity in…
Category: Libraries
Peter Hirtle’s article regarding an archive having a “permission to publish” policy makes many great points. Possibly the best one is that it could actually…
This one from the forthcoming redesign of the Johnson County Library site is amazing. Just mouse over each of the staff photos for the full…
Tim Worstall get’s to claim “first” on this idea. I wonder who’ll be second. Let’s just close down the lending libraries and buy every citizen…
HOST: Alexander Heffner GUEST: John Palfrey AIR DATE: 06/21/14 I’m Alexander Heffner, your new host on The Open Mind. For more than a half-century, my grandfather…
Kerstin Habenicht, a librarian at Waterloo Public Library, had a volunteering applicant stand her up for an interview last week. On Monday, Habenicht received an…
Congress recently took a giant leap forward to improve the delivery of job training and workforce development by passing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act…
If there’s one phrase I dislike more than the latest company touting itself as the “Netflix for books,” it’s when the retort is that such…
Our professional ethics and values and the current copyright regime are in conflict. While the American Library Association lobbies for change while supporting the current…
Copyright! Complicated, confusing, and not clear-cut. What does a librarian need to know? Michael Sauers and Laura Johnson, from the Nebraska Library Commission, will present…