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The attack on the city’s libraries follows a similar event that shut down the school district’s networks, crippling operations for three days. County officials called the FBI as soon as attack was confirmed.
“It’s chaos,” said one of the children’s librarians.
In written testimony made public this week, American Library Association officials told lawmakers that “unfair behavior by digital market actors—and the outdated public policies that have enabled them—is doing concrete harm to libraries.”
Part one of a two-part series about the Toronto Public Library's decision to host Meghan Murphy in their space. This part links to some responses to the situation before presenting one of the reasons why I think Vickery Bowles has made a terrible mistake.
In what ways do libraries act as ‘instruments of social control,’ and how could they be made into instruments of restoration, reparation, or transformation?
Three fiction sections in the library are only accessible by stairs.
Jean Armour Polly fought her colleagues to get Internet into her library in the early 90s.
Cobalt Dickens (a.k.a. Silent Librarian) is now actively targeting 380 universities, bent on stealing credentials and moving deeper into school networks.
DID YOU FUCKING HAVE TO INVOKE THE FUCKING STEREOTYPE. DID YOU.
On Indymedia and independent "news with an agenda."
Librarians say the company's update to Lynda.com learning tools is an unwelcome encroachment on patrons' rights.
As students and faculty return to school, many are discovering Lynda.com content is now only offered via LinkedIn Learning.
Vibrant mid-century packages of literary enthusiasm.
FILE PHOTO: In a Jan. 25, 2018, photo, Dierra Rowland, 19, of Philadelphia, studies at the Indiana University of Pennsyl […]
Use of keycards and self-service scanners cannot replace librarians, say campaigners
Creating barriers to access to e-books, which is what publishers are doing to resist dominance by Amazon, says Jessamyn West, disrupts the public good libraries were created to serve. Public libraries exist in large part because they are necessary to a functioning democracy, West writes.
We asked some of our librarians what they think about the acquision of Lynda.com by LinkedIn and what implications it has for its users.