Archive for September, 2009
Evil Socialist Agenda
The Menace of the Public Option–public library that is.
For far too long, this menace has undermined the very foundations of our economy. While companies like Amazon and Barnes & Noble struggle valiantly each day to sell books, these communistic cabals known as libraries undercut the hard work of good corporate citizens by letting people read [...]
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Putting it all into context
Fellow ClosedStacks blogger, Paige Turner, has recently entered the world of defending the MLIS to random people in social situations. The question, “You need a masters for that?” has come up, though she hasn’t yet had to list out the courses we take and the relevance of them as I did at a potluck in [...]
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Tags: House Hippos, diseminating information, being smart, relevance of librarians
Cushing Academy, a prep school in Massachusetts, has decided to get rid of all of the books in its library, creating in its place a digital “learning center,” replete with flat screen TVs that will project data from the Internet, Kindles, and “a $50,000 coffee shop.”
‘When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, [...]
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Tags: Cushing Academy, going bookless, Kindles
Everyone says that library science is a field that is in the midst of rapid transformation. For this reason it can be frustrating, as a library student, to take classes in faddish subjects like Web2.0, knowing that by the time you graduate the technologies and ideas behind your graduate classes could be laughably outmoded.
I’ve been [...]
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