Monthly Archives: June 2008
By the way
If anyone was wondering, you can apparently get a bunch of new blog traffic if you write about both Harry Potter and naked human vaginas. Is that disturbing?
Filed under publishing, technology
Further thoughts on the POPLINE debacle: what went right?
Rachel Walden’s follow-up post on POPLINE has given me a kick in the pants to get moving on my own follow-up post. (Yes, the one that I alluded to months ago…) I’ve been thinking about the POPLINE debacle. While Rachel … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, gender, Health, The Profession
The very small silver lining to Bill C-61: Amazing public outcry
Even though I feel pulled in a million directions at the moment, I could not let the weekend pass without some sort of post on the new Canadian Copyright bill, C-61 (aka Canadian DMCA). Just in case anyone reading this … Continue reading
Filed under copyright
Bill C-61 (or how we all became criminals)
About 6 months ago I started a post about copyright legislation in Canada after reading an article in CBC news ”Copyright reform bill critics eye victory .” I got sidetracked and never got it finished, just got to vent but didn’t add enough … Continue reading
Filed under copyright, technology, Uncategorized
Why I’m not a children’s/youth librarian (not right now, at least)
This may surprise some of you, but I went to library school with the full intention of becoming a youth librarian. I had the perfect combination of elements to make a youth librarian, I thought. I was a former Head … Continue reading
Filed under The Profession, youth
