Disrupting Tradition

Libraries as Agents of Innovation and Advocacy

BU DLI Speaker Series
Boston MA
Oct 6, 2016
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Slides and Notes

Resources

• USPS facts
• Libertyville librarian Diana Trinkleback demonstrating finger weaving
• The premature death of electronic mail by Ryan Ellis
• Uber on Their Own Accessibility vs. CNN on Uber's Accessibility
• Buzzfeed on Blue Apron (and on their food waste vs packaging waste)
• original of "comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable"
• Median age of a Google employee is 29
• ADA Inclusion in libraries from American Libraries magazine
• Libraries transform campaign
• ALA Fact sheet on library markets
• Coelacanths
• Google searches for librarian vs. information scientist
• NPR: Can computers be racist and sexist?
• Publisher's Weekly: Why publishing is so white
• Critlib: critical librarianship
• We need diverse books
• Harvards robobees

Credits

• Noun project images: laptop/email by Stan Diers and envelope by ProSymbols
• Anglerfish from Wikipedia
• Background image from pexels