Library Babel Fish
A college librarian's take on technology
June 5, 2019 - 6:48pm
Yes, digitization has changed the way we search, but students have always struggled to make knowledge out of information.
May 19, 2019 - 4:27pm
You can’t take a “what happens in Las Vegas” approach to online speech.
May 9, 2019 - 9:05pm
Everyone tells us "your privacy is important to us," even libraries. What happens to those promises?
May 2, 2019 - 3:24pm
Once we built railroads and presses and libraries. Now it's done - unless things change systematically.
April 22, 2019 - 2:34pm
Reading John Wihbey's new book, The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World.
April 14, 2019 - 11:14am
... while the emperors enjoy secrecy. Thoughts after reading news about privacy online and on paper.
April 4, 2019 - 3:37pm
Tech critics revist an odd utopian novel from 1948 - B.F. Skinner's Walden Two.