Classes I wish I could teach at my library but can’t, Continued.
three irish links
I’m a little late on the uptake here, but today marks the end of the first annual Library Ireland Week. Check out all these events. For those of you interested in visual displays of quantitiative information, this map [150k pdf] is a really creative way to highlight the goings-on.
two australian links
One of my not-right-away plans once my job is done is to go back to Australia and do some consulting for the State Library of South Australia in Adelaide. Tara linked to their amazing digital library archives last week. Seems like there may be some book restoration to do in the area as well since the Barr Smith library at the University of Adelaide was flooded on Friday as the result of damage to a water main.
jeff tweedy + lawrence lessig @ the library
Jeff Tweedy [you know the guy from Wilco and Uncle Tupelo] and Lawrence Lessig [you know, the guy from The Future of Ideas and Free Culture] will be appearing at the New York Public Library on April 7th. Topic: Who Owns Culture?
flogging the blogs won’t clear the fog
I’ve been thinking about blogs lately as I moved to an entirely software-driven site here. Doing this has made me think more about content, since I don’t have the burden of also having to be the designer this time around. This has, of course, been true even moreso since people read the feeds intead of the web page, but I digress. Even though this is only marginally library related, with all the blogging and journalism hubub going on, it’s worth paying attention to, a progressive view of what blogs bring to journalism, and why it might matter by Sam Smith.
Tom Paine, Ben Franklin, and Frederick Douglass did not have press passes either, nor did anyone give them credentials before they commenced their unlicensed practice of the First Amendment. And where does one go these for such a license anyway? Usually to the government or to a committee comprised of employees of large media corporations whose interest is not in dispensing news but in owning its profits and who hire numerous lobbyists to manipulate the same White House and Congress their ace reporters are covering.
[thanks chris]