You couldn’t find a more compelling title

30Jul08

This Cuban Library Lends DVDs about State Torture.
Well, it’s true.

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Tags: Castro, Cuba, libraries, state torture

Who’s your daddy?

28Jul08

My place of work, Providence Public Library, is once again making headlines. Although the articles are accurate, the situation is confusing, so allow me to summarize the problem: the current Providence Public Library system costs $1 million dollars more to run than anyone is willing to pay.
If you don’t know how PPL is [...]

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Tags: Board of Trustees, Providence Public Library, too many cooks

Libraries and data. What’s not to love?

23Jul08

Whoas! The National Center for Educational Statistics report on academic libraries is now available.
Reading this report will help young professionals put large scale library operations into context.  Analysing data collected by the 2006 Academic Libraries Survey (ALS), the report focuses on services, collections, staffing, expenditures, e-services, and information literacy.   Academic institutions are defined and separted by order of the Carnegie classification system, which makes it [...]

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Tags: academic libraries, community college, information literacy, statistics

Comely Young Lady for Comparison’s Sake

17Jul08

Finally, a way to hide your naughty listening habits from your roommates. 
Source: Modern Mechanix

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Tags: image archive, killing us softly, radio

Reveal the Digital Divide in Your Vacation!

12Jul08

The techno website Iwith.org has recently announced a family fun photo competition.  The website, whose mission is to “promote information and communication technologies as tools for solidarity and progress in society,” wants photographs that showcase the digital divide.
According to the site, photos need not be negative or positive, but should represent the existence of digital [...]

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Tags: digital divide, iwith.org, photography

I post what I like

09Jul08

Paper Cuts blogs about The Chimurenga Library, a web archive that profiles African literary periodicals, magazines, and zines.  Coverage is not full text nor is it comprehensive;  rather, Chimurenga Magazine aims to bring attention to “objects we read and admire.”  The hovering design features on the homepage make searching a game.  More importantly, I value the project for opening my eyes to a body of literary and artistic [...]

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Tags: African literature, Anne with an E, footnotes, Maps, Mary Todd Lincoln

Glyphs, allographs, and grapheme

01Jul08

Every second grader with the misfortune of taking a field trip to a site of historical reenactment knows how the terms upper case and lower case became part of the English vocabulary.  A certain type of person is able to recognize the Irvin typeface made popular by  at a glance.  The most diehard font-junkies prefer the designation of graffiti writer to graffiti artist, [...]

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Tags: design, free font movement, typography