How to Respond to Bad Press, continued
In a post a few days ago I referred to a letter written by Mary A. Dempsey, Commissioner for the Chicago Public Library, as a response to a Fox Chicago News story that asked Are Libraries Necessary, or...
View ArticlePolitical Dictionary
Political Dictionary is one of those resources to make a note about, as it contains words and phrases unique to the political environment without being politically charged in defining them. Interesting...
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How the Digital Revolution Changed Our World
An visual chart in the current Newsweek sums up many of the changes we have seen over the past decade: Exactly How Much Are The Times A-Changin’? The categories that are in decline speak volumes: The...
View ArticleGoogle Election Maps
The mid-term elections are shaping up to be quite dramatic (although not quite the roller-coaster ride that we had with the 2008 election season). And Google has come up with a new way to visualize the...
View ArticleGoogle Books Unsettled
The Google Books Settlement was tossed out by U.S. District Judge Denny Chin, arguing that it gave too much power to Google in allowing the company “significant rights to exploit entire books.” The...
View ArticleRegister to Vote on Libology
The Democratic National Committee recently released code that allows websites to offer streamlined voter registration pages through a Ruby on Rails interface. The Obama campaign quickly modified that...
View ArticleMapping Libraries (and Museums)
Justin Grimes, of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has created a couple of interactive maps that detail the saturation of libraries and museums across the United States: Peruse the Map of...
View ArticleLibraries and the Affordable Care Act
Some interesting news will be announced at the American Library Association (ALA) conference in Chicago: the ALA will be coordinating an effort to have libraries nationwide assist people who will be...
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Long Copyrights Kill Books
This. The Hole in our Collective Memory : How Copyright made Mid-Century Books Vanish These are frightening numbers, and they should force us to consider the negative effects of longer copyright terms....
View Articlehealthcare.gov likes Opera
Even though I am not currently working in the library field (and am not following library-related news as closely), I have been following the implementation and rollout of the Affordable Care Act...
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