My ALA Midwinter 2012 Schedule
The snow is falling here in central Ohio, so I'm eager to leave here and head to warm Dallas for ALA Midwinter 2012. I'm looking forward to catching up with...
Recent posts
The Best of the “SOPA Blackout”
Commentary, intentional and unintentional humor, and media from January 18, 2012
Stop SOPA and Protect-IP
This blog will be present first-time users with a warning page on January 18, 2012 -- the day that many internet sites are using to protest the Stop Online P...
Helping Libraries Consider Open Source Software
One of the key activities that brought me to LYRASIS many months ago is going to see the light of day in about 10 days at ALA Midwinter -- a set of tools to ...
Setting Aside Time for Writing
It is time for New Year's Resolutions, and the new habit I aim to pick up is setting aside some serious, concentrated chunks of time for writing each day. I...
Thursday Threads: Legal Implications of SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Learning from Best Buy, Open Source in Medicine
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner Welcome to the new year! Threads this week include a brief analysis o...
Thursday Threads: Looking Backwards and Looking Forwards
As the last DLTJ Thursday Threads of the year, the stories in this post look back to what we saw in 2011 and look forward to what we may see in 2012. Lookin...
What Happens When History Fights Back – A Review of “11/22/63: A Novel” by Stephen King
[openbook booknumber="OLID:OL24906649M"] Pluck a string and it vibrates. As it vibrates there are points along the string where it is absolutely still. Plu...
Thursday Threads: SOPA Suspended, Lending Chromebooks, OCLC Introduces WorldShare
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> This is the just-in-time-for-the-holi...
Campaign Contributions and Judiciary Committee Votes on SOPA (and a Plug for Rootstrikers)
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 alon...
Thursday Threads: Alternative to SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Costs of Resource Sharing, Communicating with IT Staff
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner In this week's news we still have activity on legislation before the U...