Monthly Archives: January 2008
Records as Spoils of War
This is just depressing. http://chronicle.com/free/2008/01/1335n.htm The Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank associated with Stanford University …signed a deal on Monday with the Iraq Memory Foundation—a private, nonprofit group that has had custody of the documents since just after the … Continue reading
Filed under archives
Enough already with the “boys left behind” shtick
Any of you in North America who work in public libraries, college libraries, schools, or who are raising kids have probably heard the refrain. I see it in the news all the time. I see it in our provincial library … Continue reading
Filed under gender
Library School and Information Ethics
An interest group within the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) has released a statement advocating for inclusion of courses on information ethics in all North American LIS curricula: http://www.libraryjuicepress.com/docs/iesig_statement.htm. ALISE draws on ethics from the “universal core … Continue reading
Filed under LIS education
CHN Part III – Petition Deadline
The Friends of CHN have put out the word that they are planning to ask the PM and Minister of Health to “have a heart” by delivering their petition to save the Canadian Health Network on Valentine’s Day, Feb 14. … Continue reading
Filed under Health
Another one bites the dust: Publish & Perish
A press release from January 7 announced that Raincoast Publishing will soon bite the dust. Apparently this branch of Raincoast Books has been brought down by a stronger Canadian dollar (and the soon-in-sight end of the Harry Potter bonanza), they … Continue reading
Filed under globalization, publishing
Interface changes are stressful, kind of like dating
Like many of you out there, I am currently being forced to overcome my resistance to change and explore the new OvidSP interface (nice tutorial here). Argh! So, like some fellow health librarian bloggers I am putting my opinions out … Continue reading
Filed under Health, tips and tools
Tagging in Archives
The U.S. Library of Congress’ new Flickr photo tagging effort The Commons is getting lots of attention from info studies folks and the wider blogosphere. The upload of historical photos owned by LC onto such a popular “Web 2.0″ site … Continue reading
Neat, Free Tools for Info Professionals – and Others
As part of a small project I’m working on for the Council on Library and Information Resources, I’ve been evaluating online tools produced by “Digital Humanities Centers.” These are academic centers focused on bringing computing into humanities research.* The tools … Continue reading
Filed under tips and tools
Freedom of expression lawsuit irony
I’m still planning to deliver a post talking more in depth about the freedom of expression claim CanWest Global is making in their DTCA lawsuit, as I promised here, but this week’s commencement of the British Columbia Supreme Court case … Continue reading
Filed under Intellectual freedom, media democracy
Longwoods Press rolls out Open Access policy
Longwoods Press, publisher of Healthcare Quarterly/Longwoods Review , Nursing Leadership (CJNL) , Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé , World Health & Population now has an OA publishing option. I guess this is a super-soft launch of the policy, as … Continue reading
