tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73787039977212677782011-09-26T11:55:21.698-07:00We are a group of burgeoning librarians from the University of Washington iSchool.The Bookaneershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00338982263397770624noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-72303631663088480952011-06-02T15:23:00.000-07:002011-06-02T16:42:36.640-07:00

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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082818296942837369noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-33612023332040170442011-05-16T12:01:00.001-07:002011-05-16T12:04:56.701-07:00

Oh, print metaphors! You are getting so quaint.Robots in the library!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESCxYchCaWIA very nice post from Salon about the New York Public Library and the role of the library as public space and place:http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/05/11/nypl_centennial/index.htmlSeth Godin makes a good effort in this post, though I don't agree with everything:http://

Ian Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17964681927742232124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-21369359859320839692011-04-29T15:00:00.000-07:002011-04-29T15:29:13.409-07:00

I thought about responding to Ian's post in the comment field, but, let's be frank, those comments always get short shrift, and I want my thoughts to be front and center. That being said, let me step aside for a moment and laud Ian's post: what a great, thougthful, and nuanced discussion. I could see Ian's anxiety about seeming convoluted, and I think that's the danger of any true thought about

Altheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697104253071284613noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-48364561341962266672011-04-17T08:52:00.001-07:002011-04-17T11:05:46.841-07:00

*Note: After writing this, I realize that there are significant gaps in the argument and that these gaps will require leaps of faith on your part. I hope you will take those leaps with me at least in this first reading. Hopefully those gaps won't turn out to be fatal flaws in the argument; hopefully, the gaps will simply need a few bridges built in order to make it a more complete

Ian Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17964681927742232124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-67723414160308057342011-03-18T14:14:00.000-07:002011-03-18T14:16:56.518-07:00

Bookaneers! We've had a scattered year. Ian has gone on to a real job, Freeda and Rachel have joined Cristina in the ranks of the double-degrees, Wesley is and always has been slippery as an eel. Please tell your readers (me) what you've been up to and why it matters.

Altheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697104253071284613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-31028926797707446442011-02-28T17:26:00.000-08:002011-03-20T09:40:16.837-07:00

Graduation is approaching much too quickly for comfort, and this impending end, of course, implies new beginnings. To put it more succinctly, I've started to apply for jobs. As part of a job application that I was just filling out, I was asked to write a statement on where I think the library fits into the larger academic institution. What a great question! I thought I'd share what I wrote,

Altheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697104253071284613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-6219000734334306152010-10-07T11:44:00.000-07:002010-10-07T12:23:52.181-07:00

Hey gang,What I'm about to do is a shameful thing, a faux pas that I will heretofore call an igruffusa, after the act itself. But, it does give me a chance to share what's going on this term, so I will do it shamelessly.I've embarked on my great pursuit of a deeper practical understanding of information technology, I'm enrolled in a website design course, and a course on information retrieval

Altheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697104253071284613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-64643924434964362812010-08-23T10:29:00.000-07:002010-08-23T12:20:46.389-07:00

Several Bookaneers have been off adventuring this summer--which isn't quite over, but I'm (almost) back, so here I am, reporting on my own library-related experiences. Summer reading-wise I took advantage of the break to ingest some literature I'd been meaning to get around to (Cormac MCarthy? Verdict: Yes.), but not as much of the fodder for current social and political debate as some of these

Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082818296942837369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-56696043261700052102010-08-05T10:03:00.000-07:002010-08-06T12:45:27.580-07:00

I know we've all been thinking a lot about copyright and its changing meaning in relation to digital texts. I think most of us have been thinking about it in terms of readers versus content providers, where readers' rights and relationship to the text are being diminished as content providers exert increasing control over the words of others.Cory Doctorow provides an interesting fleshing-out of

Altheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697104253071284613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-86605586035461899002010-07-22T07:53:00.000-07:002010-07-27T13:50:28.432-07:00

Thanks to Bookaneer Althea for initiating this post with the theme of summer reading.I'm currently taking a full load of classes, so my summer reading has been tempered by school (ha!). Seriously though, reading stuff other than the assigned class readings is like my own personal pastime.Let me briefly mention a book that I'm currently reading.The book is entitled Speaking Into The Air: A History

Ian Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17964681927742232124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-32457671937540785392010-07-21T08:15:00.000-07:002010-07-21T08:35:27.842-07:00

Before we split up fro the summer, we bookaneers discussed a reading list that we would all work on, so that we had something productive to talk about at our first meeting of the new school year. I can't remember what I agreed to read, but I brought a copy of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it to New York with me, and I'm cracking through it. I wanted to share some of my impressions

Altheahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15697104253071284613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378703997721267778.post-43019847527852832652010-07-01T16:50:00.000-07:002010-07-01T16:51:37.444-07:00

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