Archive for September, 2005
Take A Look At The Online Discussions
Since we have a few posts about the Chronicle’s special report on academic libraries, I’ll just add that I’d encourage readers to go to the Chronicle site to take a look at the comments being added to the online discussions for the tenure debate articles and the one on left-wing echo chamber. I added my [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 29th, 2005 under Worth Reading.
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New Academic Libraries
TCNJ Library
Originally uploaded by Marc Meola.
Scott Carlson has a good article (subscription required) in the Chronicle’s special section on libraries in which he touches on the major issues and trends in the design and building of new academic libraries. Here at TCNJ, our library followed [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on September 29th, 2005 under Buildings.
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Open Your Browser and…
Another interesting piece in the Chronicle’s special supplement on libraries – this one from a professor of English who worries open stacks are a thing of the past. In “Libraries Lost” Fred D. White expresses dismay that automated retrieval, remote storage, and dependence on online browsing will discourage serendipity and diminish the possibility that students [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on September 28th, 2005 under Uncategorized.
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Intellectual Freedom And Academic Freedom
I’m at the Pennsylvania Library Association Conference the next few days. I just left Carrie Gardner’s (faculty at Catholic U.’s LIS) presentation on “Communicating Your Intellectual Freedom Message.” Although it was geared somewhat more to the public library sector I think Carrie gave some great advice for understanding what information is illegal (e.g., child pornography, [...]
Posted by StevenB on September 25th, 2005 under Uncategorized.
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Beyond the Bomb Builder at the Reference Desk – When Information Has Social Costs
A standard ethical question raised in library school classes is some variation of dilemma of the hypothetical bomb builder who comes to the reference desk asking for information. You’re the reference librarian–what do you do? David Wessel in “Better Information Isn’t Always Beneficial,” in the Wall Street Journal (free) points to more subtle [...]
Posted by Marc Meola on September 23rd, 2005 under Information Ethics.
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