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More on IPCC Chapter Head Neil Adger - & Stephen Schneider

Donna Laframboise wrote 1 day ago: Recently I blogged about Neil Adger, who’s currently leading an Intergovernmental Panel on Cli … more →

Tags: activist scientists, Climate Bible, ClimateGate, ethical & philosophical, free speech, ipcc, Cambridge University Press, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Neil Adger

Why Is General McChrystal Teaching An Off-The-Record Course At Yale? By Gian Gentile3 comments

jstfly21 wrote 1 week ago: TheAtlantic.com May 24, 2012 It’s fine for a military office to play the role of professor … more →

Tags: leadership, General McChrystal, Yale, iraq, War, William F. Buckley

TIMELINE has been launched...send us information, reports, documents or events to add

UT Librarians wrote 1 week ago: A TIMELINE (see tab in top menu) documenting concerns and issues related to the two professions, arc … more →

Tags: CAUT, Academic Librarianship, McMaster University, Library Trends, university of toronto, University of Toronto Libraries, Academic Libraries, NADP, lac

Borderless pedagogy in the Occupy movement

sanjayperera wrote 2 weeks ago: by Henry A. Giroux A group of right-wing extremists in the United States would have the American pub … more →

Tags: Anti-Capitalism, Corporate Media, Critical Thinking, occupy movement, academic censorship, Henry A. Giroux, public intellectuals, Market Fundamentalism, War on Youth

Words from Past Prison Librarians: Frances Sandiford2 comments

exploringprisonlibrarianship wrote 4 weeks ago: This week the library that I work at has two staff people retiring. Their retirements got me thinkin … more →

Tags: prison library, librarians, Retired, librarians, New York

Defend our First Amendment. Protect our right to question science!2 comments

Marshall Culpepper wrote 1 month ago: The Jeenyus here, I want to share with you a cause my buddy put me on to.  It’s the Academic F … more →

Tags: Politics, Opinion, Life, Academic Freedom, academic freedom petition, Charles Darwin, Evolution, Faith, First Amendment

Choose Privacy Week: Freedom from Surveillance

Sherburne Memorial Library wrote 1 month ago: Choose Privacy Week, an initiative of the American Library Association invites library users into a … more →

Tags: Privacy, Current Events

Kudos from the Canadian Library Association

CLA Ottawa Network wrote 1 month ago: The 2012 Canadian Library Association National Conference and Tradeshow is less than a month away. I … more →

Tags: Kudos, CLA...., Awards, New Professionals, Mentorship, Conference 2012

Naked Intolerance in the Media

Donna Laframboise wrote 1 month ago: Why does the climate debate elicit so much partisan sneering from the media? . Yesterday a Canadian … more →

Tags: free speech, media, Andrew Mitrovica, Fraser Institute, 'freeman dyson', Judith Curry, NASA, NASA Astronauts

open standards, open designs, free software, free hardware, and decentralization

Caitlin Quinn wrote 1 month ago: I was watching a Democracy Now segment this morning, “We Do Not Live in a Free Country”: … more →

Tags: Spotlight: People, Reading

The Broken Publib Listserve or Control through Incorporation5 comments

Robert Balliot ,MLIS wrote 1 month ago: I have come here not to bury Publib, but to praise it. Ghost of Publib Last year, OCLC announced tha … more →

Tags: administration, Current Topics, ethics, GSLIS, history of libraries, Library organization, library profession, Open-Source, questions unanswered

Cargo

suitablefish wrote 1 month ago: I started this blog to exercise my cognitive brain, to find words again, to write. What I wrote I po … more →

Tags: my desk drawer, my pics, Camera Bag, Poetry, Poems, postaday, Yellow Bells, Spring wildflowers, Publishing

China and the importance of cultural engagement | Books | The Guardian

Gregory Kaplan wrote 1 month ago: I could agree with some of the more reasonable criticism leveled at the London Book Fair for its Mar … more →

Tags: Commerce & Industry, Publishing, China, london book fair, international publishing, exiled writers, censorship

Freedom

unemployedfemale49 wrote 1 month ago: Finally completed the masterpiece JSA3 form today, a reappraisal of what equates to no change in cir … more →

Tags: glass ceiling, Irony, Nea, languages, job seekers allowance, jsa

YA for Grown-ups1 comment

icydaylight wrote 1 month ago: You know that xkcd comic, “Someone is WRONG on the internet”? I actually don’t fee … more →

Tags: Books, Young-Adult

I read banned books!

Celia wrote 1 month ago: The ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom has released its annual list of the top ten most chal … more →

Tags: Banned Books, Banned Books Week, most challenged books of 2011, Brave New World, grounds for challenge

Who Watches the Watchers?5 comments

mattutd wrote 1 month ago: I can’t help but take issue with Jaron Lanier’s article on The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy … more →

Tags: Jaron Lanier, nerd supremacy, Leaks, panoptic gaze, secrets, Privacy

You never forget your first time... on a CLA committee

Amanda Halfpenny wrote 1 month ago: Since I began my new position in a school library last fall, I have been excited to find any profess … more →

Tags: Volunteering, Library Associations, school libraries, committee work, School Librarianship, Canadian Library Association, Group Work, Copyright

Let Us Now Praise Libraries, Librarians

icydaylight wrote 2 months ago: An article in the Boston Sunday Globe caught my eye this morning, with the headline “Let Us No … more →

Tags: library world, Books, readers' advisory


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