We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore
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11/22/63Stephen King; Scribner 2011WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder Pluck a string and it vibrates. As it vibrates there are points along the string where it is absolutely still. Pluck a companion string and sometimes those points line up. If you pull that string tighter there are more points of stillness and a greater chance that points will line up. If you pull it too tight, it snaps.
This is a preview of What Happens When History Fights Back — A Review of “11/22/63: A Novel” by Stephen King. Read the full post (377 words, 1 image, 1:30 minutes estimated reading time)
This is the just-in-time-for-the-holidays edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee suspended work on SOPA, and there was much relief from the technology community. The Palo Alto Public Library announced plans to lend Chromebooks (laptops with Google’s cloud-based operating system) to patrons. And OCLC announced a rebranding and expansion of its webscale activities with the WorldShare Platform.
Inclusive of all holidays of the season I wish you a safe, restful and happy celebration.
This is a preview of Thursday Threads: SOPA Suspended, Lending Chromebooks, OCLC Introduces WorldShare. Read the full post (963 words, 3:51 minutes estimated reading time)
I’ve been keeping an eye on the House Judiciary Committee markup session for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that have happened over the past two days along with the tweets that have been going out in reaction to the proceedings. One of the running threads in the commentary has been the theory of a correlation between campaign contributions from media creators and a desire by representatives to push SOPA through the committee. (Disclosure: I’ve come out publicly against SOPA.) By tabulating the roll call votes and using data from OpenSecrets.org, there does appear to be a correlation, and one that gets tighter the higher the percentage of contributions from media creators. I’ll show my work below.
This is a preview of Campaign Contributions and Judiciary Committee Votes on SOPA (and a Plug for Rootstrikers). Read the full post (1563 words, 2 images, 6:15 minutes estimated reading time)
