The University of Toronto’s School of Information Studies has a podcast/public lecture series on “on book history, the Internet and everything else in the field of Information.”
Recent episodes include:
Paul Nelles on “Books, Communication and Exchange: The Frankfurt Book Fair and Early Modern Print Culture”
David Weinberger on “Knowledge at the End of the Information Age”
link: http://podcasts.ischool.utoronto.ca/
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Book Oven pal, and LibriVox enabler, Brewster Kahle gets a nice write-up in the Economist:
Brewster Kahle wants to create a free, online collection of human knowledge. It sounds impossibly idealistic—but he is making progress.
FOR a man who has set himself a seemingly impossible mission, Brewster Kahle seems remarkably laid back. Relaxing in the black leather [...]
Libraries are doing well, apparently:
Even those most suspicious of his honeyed oratory had to admit that the 44th president’s inaugural address was unexpectedly more “nose to the grindstone” than “head in the clouds”. But as the mood of grim practicality spreads from Washington across the world, the doomy economic clouds have afforded a glimpse of [...]
This seems to me to be very important, and any librarian should be fightin’ mad, not to mention the rest of us, library patrons:
Despite the internet’s origins as an academic network, when it comes to finding a book, e-commerce rules. Put any book title into your favourite search engine, and the hits will be [...]
As the death watch continues for the publishing business and perhaps even the book itself, a group of writers, technologists, publishers, agents, designers, booksellers, and social architects convened in London for BookCamp, a one-day thinking session (bookish experimentation) about what the future of the written word might be.
The event was organized by Jeremy Ettinghausen, digital [...]
If I were a multi-gazillionaire, I wouldn’t do this quite, but I would have a nice big library with rolling ladders and big leather chairs. This is something else altogether, over the top, of course, but wow-inducing:
Writes Maud:
NY budget cuts nullify arts grants awarded but not paid, while Yankees get help for $370 mill in stadium cost overruns.
From US News & World Report, comes the listing of Librarian among the best career choices you can make:
Forget about that image of librarians as a mousy bookworms. More and more of today’s librarians must be clever interrogators, helping the patron to reframe their question more usefully. Librarians then become high-tech information sleuths, helping [...]
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