I have been reading an excellent work by communication theorist and political economist Vincent Mosco. The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace examines the myths we have been spinning around the rise of the Internet: that it will change politics and social interaction, and generally bring us into a new enlightened age.

The first part […]

Cheating on Facebook?

This has been all over the news here in Toronto, but I have not read about it in any of my feeds yet, which is weird given the rush to get libraries on Facebook.

Here is the story. Chris Avenir, a first year engineering student at Ryerson University, was charged with 147 counts of […]

Updating my post on Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk’s recent statement on Library 2.0. A blog I have just discovered, the Proletarian Librarian (adding another to The ‘X’ Librarian trend), has some comments on the Library 2.0 post as well.

An insightful addition to the discussion:

I’m all for finding out what our users want and […]

Great little article by Anthony Grafton, recounting the history of reading, publishing and organizing books, ending with Google and other smaller efforts to digitize books. Conclusion:

Sit in your local coffee shop, and your laptop can tell you a lot. If you want deeper, more local knowledge, you will have to take the narrower path […]

I’m sorry. Library 2.0 is NOT user centric.

Hooked? Stay around for the conclusion.

I just wanted to comment on a statement by Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk, hosted on LibraryCrunch.

I come to this post with an ever expanding knowledge of Information Literacy and designing instructional programs and of reading about the research habits and information behavior […]