Another terribly useful library blog: RFID in libraries.
Author: jessamyn
why open access is good for libraries
The Open Access glossary page leads to all sorts of wonderful other pages including this one: “The (Refereed) Literature-Liberation Movement” with a longer article linked at the bottom “For Whom the Gate Tolls? How and Why to Free the Refereed Research Literature
Online Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving, Now” The implications for libraries and librarians are obvious. Can anyone say “serials crisis”?
Online Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving, Now” The implications for libraries and librarians are obvious. Can anyone say “serials crisis”?
these are some nice pix
It has been a while since I checked in on the Bellydancing Librarian. Now there is a whole gallery of other bellydancing librarians too!
in which gay librarian goes to Nashville
The Anti-Adventures of a Gay Male Librarian, where else but at Gaylibrarian.net
an old chestnut from Bruce Sterling
Speaking of free-as-knowledge [nod to Melvil Dewey], here is an old speech by Bruce Sterling about the intersection of money and the public good, and the benefits of Deep Archiving, when he spoke to LITA in 1992.
People talk a lot about the power and glory of specialized knowledge and technical expertise. Knowledge is power — but if so, why aren’t knowledgeable people in power? And it’s true there’s a Library of Congress. But how many librarians are there in Congress?