It’s been a long time since I’ve had something substantial to say. This goes along with me not really being interested in reading blogs and keeping up with the debates there–both in the library blog sphere and in with my feeds in general. This is not the first time I have gone through […]

Here is a review of Pnina Shachaf and Sarah Horowitz’ 2006 article “Are virtual reference services color blind?“. It is an unobtrusive study of e-mail reference which purports to discover discrimination against Arabs and African-Americans based on the names appended to e-mail queries.

While I found the study very interesting, I also thought it was […]