2018 Community Service Award (DCLA)

One a very positive note for this summer of 2018… I was honoured with the 2018 Community Service Award by … More

Freedom and #Diversity in #Libraries

I read Marshall Breeding’s May 2017 “Library Systems Report 2017” way back when it was published in American Libraries magazine … More

#Linked data, BibFrame and #libraries

I spent thursday and friday (04-05 may 2017) at the Library of Congress hearing about how the PCC committees are … More

DC/SLA Board of Directors 2017

For archival purposes mostly… Link to newsletter here. Yes, I am on the board for 2017-2020 on the chapter president … More

#Copyright and #CopyrightX

Good morning everyone. I am planning to apply to the Harvard law School / HarvardX / Berkman Klein Center for … More

Limit of Time for #Librarian of Congress

According to the Library Journal, Congress is debating whether to put a 10-year limit on the position of Librarian of … More

#Libraries Deepen the #Past with #History

One thing that seems to have gotten lost in the current conversation about access to information in libraries, scholarly communication … More

Surveillance & Privacy Publication at Library Journal

My collection development article, Careful, You’re Being Watched: Surveillance & Privacy, has just been published at Library Journal. The print … More

#Library Conferences Promotion on Tumblr

To engage the world-wide-collection of library and information related conferences and annual meetings, I have taken over the Library Conferences … More

Guest Post by Robert Ward: What is #mathematics really?

I want to introduce the notion of the guest-post to this blog. Not new to blogs, but new to this … More