Today I’m speaking to the Merri Hill Rock Library Cooperative on Social Software.
I’m impressed that among them are two really innovative and exciting blogs:
The Cutler Library in Litchfield has made an entire website with a series of free blogs from Blogger AND each is represented as a community space: BoaRD RooM, FRieNDS’ CoRNeR, INFoRMaTioN BooTH, [...]

Last Monday, Mark Hirschey, touched off a hot debate among librarian bloggers with his stand that “Libraries are limited, obsolete.”
In general, I agree with John:
I can

“And why don’t I glow in the dark?”
I don’t usually follow casual friday being as serious a girl as I am. But this week, for some reason, I was inspired. Things in Rubbers brightened an otherwise trying Thursday afternoon, but I couldn’t quite bring myself to devote a whole post to it.
10,000 Reasons [...]

A close friend, an american ex-pat who has lived in Norway… well… long enough… sent along Jantelegan as the status quo there. It occurs to me that it could describe a certain attitude in the former model of gatekeeper-librarianship or pre-Google librarians or, I’ll just say it our professional old-skool.

You shall not think that [...]

Thanks to bsuite I get a glimpse of searches that brought people to this site. I hope the person who searched for (MySpace OR Facebook) AND Libraries found what he or she was looking for.
I’d like to think that it was a civilian using such a well formed boolean search, but more likely it [...]

Is graffiti art or vandalism?
That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.

Many thanks to Banksy for clearing that up… I agree.
He goes on:

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn’t illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where [...]

On her trip across the country Amanda Congdon stopped in Washington DC and interviewed Andy Carvin about the Digital Divide and the Digital Divide Network:
People have always talked about the digital divide simply in terms of who has internet access and who doesn’t; which households have computers and which don’t… because that’s always been the [...]