Posted in libraries | Thursday, July 7th, 2005 | Comments Off
Tags: blog, bombing, library
The British Library is quite near to King’s Cross station and I’m sure many people are concerned for their welfare in addition to the many others affected by today’s tragedy. They posted a brief update to their main page, which I think is something that all libraries should be able to do in case of an emergency. Apparently they locked the building down. Oddly this isn’t the only story about the British Library with the word tragedy in the headlines today. A British Library spokesperson had this to say:
“Kings Cross and Euston is cordoned off. “Police have advised us strongly that people stay where they are. There are staff and readers inside. We don’t know if we will be open tomorrow. We are discussing contingency plans.”
Update: The British Library has an update on their services available today here.
Posted in ala | Wednesday, June 29th, 2005 | Comments Off
Tags: blog, blogpeople, gorman
Incoming ALA President Michael Gorman’s last line in his [brief] inaugural address: “My completed remarks will be on my blog in the morning.” Classic.
Posted in blogz | Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 | Comments Off
Tags: blog, waltatrandom, waltcrawford
Linked here anecdotally on the first, but mentioned in full today. Walt Crawford has a blog, Walt at Random. As someone who prints and reads every issue of Cites and Insights, I’m sure I’ll enjoy this as well.
Posted in blogz | Tuesday, March 29th, 2005 | Comments Off
Tags: blog, listserv, web4lib
Small update and interesting sidenote. Even though the web4lib content is being presented in blog format, it’s not really a blog. That is, you can’t comment using the comment form without being a list member. Not that this is a bad thing, but it is definitely a repurposing of the blog format in a way that produces unexpected results. Anyone who doesn’t know about web4lib should read up on it. Maybe it’s the librarian in me, but I think the list of guidelines for list behavior is sane, thoughful and thorough.
Posted in ala, blogz | Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005 | Comments Off
Tags: blog, hhptf, homelessness, hunger, poverty, srrt
The Social Responsibilities Round Table of ALA tackles a lot of different social justice issues. They have a task force called the Hunger, Homelessness and Poverty task force that has just started a blog with a thought-provoking first post “Are Public Libraries Criminalizing Poor People?“. [libact]
