Here are the slides from the paper that Con and I will present at the VALA 2012 conference this morning. This is the abstract: Twentieth century libraries were funded to provide content to their communities legally, easily and free. In [click to r... read more

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Senator John F. Kerry joined 13 college presidents and some 100 students from across the area for a wide-ranging discussion yesterday that emphasized the need to keep higher education affordable for the middl... read more

Jared Gardner's Projections: Comics and the History of 21st Century Storytelling was the first book I read in 2012 and it was the ideal choice. Gardner makes an incredibly valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship within comic stud... read more

Just another picture from last weekend's trip to Salalah. I think this is the very definition of rugged coastline. What strikes me about the picture now - and what struck me about it when I took it - was how much I wanted to get down to that beach... read more

If you’re headed to the iSchool conference, something to read if you haven’t yet is a paper that was rejected for inclusion in the 2008 iSchool conference, by Jonathan Furner and Anne Gilliland, both professors at the UCLA School of Information (o... read more

Jessy Randall and I recently taught our January-term class on the history and future of books. We changed things from the last time we did the course, so I thought I’d share here the full syllabus and other documents from 2012 History and Future o... read more

I first did a post like this at the end of 2007, and I mean to do another one every year, but … well you know how it goes. Once again, the lines and photos, though mostly completely unrelated, come together to create a picture of the year that wil... read more

After a late start due to some unexpected things-that-must-be-done-now, I arrived and began to dig into the action items delayed from yesterday. This included responding to OCLC with information about a billing error, filing my notes from the disc... read more

After I wrote, in a recent Wall Street Journal article, about the malleability of text in electronic books, a reader asked me to flesh out my thoughts about the different ways that "typographical fixity" - to again borrow Elizabeth Eisenstein'... read more

what i eat and drink in a day project for green media1. photograph everything you eat and drink in one whole day.2. select your best photos and upload them to flickr.3. title and tag all your photos. put them into a set. be creative with all aspec... read more

I decided last minute to do Library Day in the Life this time around. It all started this morning when I was at the gym. As I was working out I was listening to Steve Thomas’s most recent Circulating Ideas podcast featuring Bobbi Newman. I’v... read more

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Among them are global adoption of mobile devises and the rise of cloud computing. read more

  I am about to present my keynote for the Handheld Librarian Conference. The slides are here: [link] Extra Links: Pew Tablet & E-Book Reader Ownership: [link] read more

There are a lot of popular assumptions people make in this profession that lead us to make classic blunders. These can be assumptions about the change process, assumptions about our colleagues, and assumptions about our patrons. We can go into dev... read more

I was surprised by how much activity there was yesterday over SOPA/PIPA. If you’ve been following along you’ll know that SOPA/PIPA are the House and Senate versions of a bill that has been proposed in order to manage the fact that there are a lot ... read more