Dan Savage has made a career of speaking his mind. His Savage Love column and weekly podcast have brought sane sex and relationship advice to millions, a kind of pop cultural counterpart to the Go Ask Alice resource beloved by high school and college librarians everywhere. He got the chance to speak his mind again [...]
ALA Annual 2011: Opening Session Speaker Dan Savage Says “It Gets Better” is About Access and Information
By on June 24, 2011
A Day's Work and Then Some: DuPage Library System Cites LJ's Mike Kelley for Excellence in Journalism
By on June 14, 2011
Not Off-Site, but Out-of-Sight: University of Chicago's Massive Underground Robotic Storage System
By on May 12, 2011
Underneath the domed reading room of the new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, a new facility will hold some 3.5 million volumes and deliver them to students and faculty above at the circulation desk in roughly five minutes.
Got Reader Privacy? California Nearly Does With Senate Approval of Reader Privacy Act
By on May 10, 2011
How Much Would You Pay to Search for the Royal Wedding Guest List?
By on April 29, 2011
What would users pay per search to get at the wealth of web data to which they’ve become accustomed? What’s the reasonable search price on “the royal wedding guest list”? Kevin Kelly highlights some interesting research into relative search measures and merits, research that also points to some interesting questions about how to measure the value of library materials, discovery services, and even library services more broadly.
Vinyl-Loving Librarian Speaks About Preservation Week [video]
By on April 28, 2011
Arts vs. Libraries in San Diego Budget
By on April 27, 2011
University Press Content Consortium at 51 Partners and Counting
By on April 22, 2011
After Kindle Lending, the Deluge
By on April 20, 2011
ARL Criticizes Copyright Clearance Center's Role in GSU E-Reserves Case
By on November 23, 2010
Andrew Albanese over at Publishers Weekly recently covered the latest back and forth between the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) relating to the Georgia State E-Reserves case. According to the story, ARL director Charles Lowry has written a letter criticizing the CCC for funding 50% of the plaintiffs’ litigation [...]
