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Saturday, April 1st, 2006

Information Overload and Anomalous States of Knowledge

Too much information? In a stunning breakthrough research librarians have now discovered ‘The Cure for Information Overload‘. Their paper has some interesting findings based in part on Nick Belkin’s Anomalous States of Knowledge.

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Saturday, February 25th, 2006

The American Library Association has absolute power

According to PABBIS (Parents Against Bad Books in Schools) “ALA will soon have absolute power in deciding what is appropriate in English class and the libraries for all America’s children”
ALA and absolute power? Clearly these people have never been to any ALA meetings. I for one welcome our new librarian overlords.
For those of [...]

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Monday, February 6th, 2006

Thoughts on an LIS Ph.D and bit of history

This posting about Ph.Ds for academic librarians at ACRLog made me think about my long, strange road to the Ph.D program here and where I’m going afterwards. I’ll talk about that, at length, in a bit. Basically I’m getting a Ph.D not so much to be be better qualified for a management job now, [...]

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Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

ALA becomes radical and militant

ALA has jumped on the button bandwagon again and has their own Radical Militant Librarian Button. To me it seems a little over the top. So you go with the homemade classics. Librarian Avengers has a nice design as well.

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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Library 2.0 contined

Walt provides a nice overview of Library 2.0 in his Cites & Insights Midwinter 2006 issue . I’m still reading it but my take on Library 2.0 still stands. Libraries are about people. “Library 2.0″ seems to be a rush to use technology, without considering how to use it. Like Walt, I think that “Library [...]

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Written by Dan Greene, web designer and library geek. Topics covered here include Library and Information Science, Information Technology, web design, and maybe even a monk or two (more...)

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