Are you a social justice librarian?

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you may have noticed that it’s basically become, well, all me.
That was never the intent. I’m not THE social justice librarian, I’m just A social justice librarian.
I’d prefer that this blog have multiple voices, with different perspectives and interests. However, my former partners in crime have [...]

Just an update

There are 3 partially-written Big Posts I’ve been meaning to finish up and get out on the blog lately:
1)    Weighing electronic medical records and privacy concerns
2)    Abandoning the “Serials Crisis” argument in open access discourse
3)    The Elsevier “fake journals” scandal, Bentham “fake articles” scandal, current ghostwriting and industry-sponsored journal practices, and what health librarians can [...]

YouTube-Viacom lawsuit and IT-ignorant government

If you’ve heard about this week’s court order (ArsTechnica plain-English breakdown here) in the Viacom-YouTube lawsuit, you probably already know it makes a parody of privacy. It clearly states for the world that corporate IP such as search algorithms should be held in the utmost confidence. However, concerns over the revealing of personal information such [...]

Holiday hiatus

Hope everyone has had a lovely time the past week or so whatever you do or do not celebrate this time of year.
While my co-bloggers have been visiting family I have been home sick but enjoying time with the kiddo nonetheless, the NIH Open Access mandate has finally been signed into law!
Expect regularly scheduled blog [...]

Blogging, Remembering and Forgetting

Blogging, Documentation and Retention
As I hemmed and hawed over my first blog post – changing topics, editing, deleting – I realized that behind my newbie jitters was lurking an issue I’ve been devoting a lot of time and space to over the last year. And that is: will this blog post be around forever? If [...]

Getting this show on the road

Welcome to the Social Justice Librarian blog!
The idea for this blog has been bumping around in my head for a while now, and I think it’s probably time to open it up and try it out.
What is the idea? A blog that is centred on social justice issues that relate to information and/or librarianship; that [...]