Jeffrey Beall is a metadata librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver, but he’s known online for his popular blog Scholarly Open Access, where…
Category: Libraries
A Nebraska public library has rejected a request to either remove Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s Batman: The Killing Joke from shelves or move the…
This story is from China. First, I doubt it’s that simple and second, what is the definition of “librarian” in this context? Are we talking…
She arrived yesterday…
I read the article in question this morning and chose to ignore it. Magpie Librarian, not so much… There are several things you can count…
Scholarship applications for the 2013 conference, to be held in Omaha, NE on September 26-28, are being taken now, until June 15, 2013 at 5:00…
ASK many travellers what books are found in hotels, and they will mutter feverishly about Gideons Bibles, Readers’ Digest hardbacks and dog-eared Catherine Cookson novels.…
Nancy Dowd takes on library use of social media: If there are over 1 billion people on Facebook and the Twitterverse can help topple governments, then…
The phone call came at 3:30 a.m. with the shocking news: The storm blew the roof off the library. My library? That was Janet Stoeger…
Last night I discovered Sammy and I am just having a ball watching all of her videos! Sammy’s creator, Suzanne Walker, is the Children’s Services…