Category Archives: Library News

The Underwater Library

Posted on Wednesday, August 5, 2009 by Keith

Via friend of the blog and typo hunter, Leigh, I learned today that the Louisville Free Public Library was recently flooded and is in pretty dire straights: LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – It’ll be sometime Wednesday before the full extent of … Continue reading →

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Elsevier’s Ethics Problem Goes Way Deeper

Posted on Saturday, May 9, 2009 by Keith

Elsevier it appears, was even less ethical, if you can imagine it: In a statement to The Scientist magazine, Elsevier at first said the company “does not today consider a compilation of reprinted articles a ‘journal’”. I would like to … Continue reading →

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Academic Ethics? What Are Those?

Posted on Sunday, May 3, 2009 by Keith

Pharm giant Merck came up with a novel way of advertising their drugs: they made up a phony peer-review Journal. And guess who published it for them? Every academic’s favorite publishing behemoth, Elsevier!* It’s a safe guess that somewhere at … Continue reading →

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And I thought Our Fines Were Stiff

Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 by Keith

Overdue library book gets woman arrested: An overdue library book called “The Freedom Writers Diary” briefly cost an Independence woman her freedom Thursday. Jesup police arrested Shelly Koontz, 39, on a fifth-degree theft charge because she allegedly failed to return … Continue reading →

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A New Approach to Iraqi Records Management

Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008 by Keith

Remember all those Baathist records that were lost from the Iraqi National Library during the invasion? Well, funny story: A lot worse things have happened in Iraq, but the removal of the Baath Party archives from the country — 7 … Continue reading →

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It’s All Very Technical

Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by Keith

I usually refrain from discussing work or job-related things on the blog, but I have to share the good news: having been unemployed for less than a month, I have a new job! Starting August 4, I will be head … Continue reading →

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Coming From A Man Who’s Clearly Never Read A Book In His Life…

Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 by Keith

Brent Bozell has a column at Townhall in which he takes us dirty hippie librarians to task for our censorship: It is quite apparent who the ALA believes to be the heroes and villains of this struggle. There are the … Continue reading →

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Robbing The Cradle Of Civilization

Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 by Keith

Like everyone and everything else in Iraq, the National Library and Archives have had a rough go of it since the Occupation: The sacking of the library that began April 11, 2003, was a bad one. The current Director of … Continue reading →

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Three Cheers For The Average User

Posted on Saturday, July 7, 2007 by Keith

Emily over at Library Revolution brings up a point that relates, tangentially, to something I mentioned recently in regards to Michael Gorman and his fear of a user-contributed world: My husband and I recently took our son to the Bronx … Continue reading →

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Wizard Rock!

Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2007 by Keith

Good friend and regular reader, Andrew sent me this link to the Eugene Weekly, about Wizard Rock: What you may not know, however, is that within the last couple years, an entire music subculture has been spawned from the world  … Continue reading →

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