Library Babel Fish

Complaints I hear at the end of the term.

By Barbara Fister

You can’t take a “what happens in Las Vegas” approach to online speech.

By Barbara Fister

Everyone tells us "your privacy is important to us," even libraries. What happens to those promises?

By Barbara Fister

Once we built railroads and presses and libraries. Now it's done - unless things change systematically.

By Barbara Fister

Reading John Wihbey's new book, The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World.

By Barbara Fister

... while the emperors enjoy secrecy. Thoughts after reading news about privacy online and on paper.

By Barbara Fister

An argument for reclaiming our time by Jenny Odell.

By Barbara Fister

Tech critics revist an odd utopian novel from 1948 - B.F. Skinner's Walden Two.

By Barbara Fister