My thoughts on the Harper Collins/Overdrive controversy
The library world is abuzz about Harper Collins changing the terms by which libraries can license their books on Overdrive. If you haven't read about it already, here's some background…
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The eBook User’s Bill of Rights
I hope to write up some of my thoughts on the Harper Collins/Overdrive controversy this week, but for now, I'm posting an eBook User's Bill of Rights sent to me…
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Ebooks and Libraries: A Stream of Concerns
I really like eBooks, which is something that surprised me when I won my Kindle last Spring in a raffle. In fact, just about every book I’ve read since then…
Collaborative tech, virtual participation, and what is an “open meeting” anyways?
Let me say this first. I am not an expert in ALA or LITA (or even ACRL) bylaws regarding participation, open meetings, etc. I'm sure a lot of very experienced…
Transliteracy from the perspective of an information literacy advocate
A colleague of mine and I have been talking about transliteracy for some time and came to very similar conclusions as David Rothman did in his smart and respectful critique.…
What do they really need?
I'm not sure if I've become more cynical or just more observant, but lately I feel like I've been seeing things through new eyes. We make so many assumptions in…
Inspiring stuff to read, Take 2
I was thinking about writing a post reflecting on recent posts about the myth of the graying of the profession (and the coming librarian shortage) and Peter Brantley's post about…
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Inspiring stuff to read, Take 1
Between work, my son and the class I'm teaching at SJSU (which is about to start), I rarely have time these days to blog. It's certainly not that I'm uninspired…
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A skeptic gets a Kindle
I never in a million years thought I'd get an eBook reader from the current batch of options. They were so not on my radar. I didn't get all excited…
Rethinking online learning
This was another amazing semester teaching at San Jose State University. I had significantly more students in my class this semester than in the past (more than double), which at…
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Shuffling off to Buffalo
For library folks near the Buffalo area, I wanted to let you know that I'll be participating in an all-day conference on "Gadgets and Gear" for the Western New York…
Computers in Libraries Recap: Day 3
I took an absolutely obscene amount of notes from Ken Haycock’s keynote, because it was just one pearl of wisdom after another (I’m only including some choice bits here). I’ve…
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Computers in Libraries Recap: Day 2
Day 2 was just as full and wonderful as Day 1. I continued my mostly staying offline during the conference and I think it really helped me to keep focused…
Computers in Libraries Recap: Day 1
Since it had been two years since I’d been to an Information Today Conference, I was really excited to attend Computers in Libraries and it did not disappoint. It was…
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Coming to terms with Twitter
I've been teaching a class on Web 2.0 since 2007, and this semester is the first time that I've actually had a full week on Twitter (well, microblogging and lifestreaming…
A lot of Davids make one heck of a Goliath
In response to my post a few days ago about EBSCO, Sarah Houghton-Jan just wrote an impassioned post about unethical vendor practices, suggesting that we let our vendors know when…
Has EBSCO become the new evil empire?
Absolutely. I was less than thrilled with the way EBSCO has dealt with some of its customers vis-à-vis Harvard Business Review. I thought it was pretty evil that they signed…
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Teaching Web 2.0 with Web 2.0
After a year off from teaching to take care of baby Reed, I'm getting back up on the horse. I'll be teaching a class on Web 2.0 and Social Networking…
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Constructive criticism
Let this be a lesson to you -- never write a comment on a blog post while you have a baby on your lap who is simultaneously grabbing at your…
Shades of gray
Ever since the news of LibLime's enterprise version of Koha and whether or not their actions consisted a fork of the code, I've been thinking about how black and white…
