Some of you have heard me rant (live, not on the blog) regarding my feelings about cellphone in the library. I’m not going to repeat them here but I might finally write an article about it. Anyway, it’s gone too far. Here’s a library that not only bans cellphones but also text messaging (what possible disturbance does text messaging cause?!) Beyond that the city has passed a law that imposes fines after a warning!
Links to other articles on this will be added as they’re found so check back…
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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