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Ian F. McNeely and Lisa Wolverton note how the development by the Greeks of libraries, as storehouses of the written word, changed the possibilities of knowledge from what they had been in a purely oral society: Every library comfortably contains writings and juxtaposes ideas that, if they were represented by
James Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, writes about his research into the costs of having more research materials available online. The benefits of having the materials online are obvious: Ease of finding, ease of searching, ease of printing. Evans wondered whether there were costs along with those
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If a library were going to stock this book, wouldn't it be wrong somehow to charge an overdue fee on someone who returned it late?
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At Ohio State's main campus, April was usually the time for protests: The weather was nice and thousands of students had senioritis. Marches would be held, demands would be presented, promises would be made, and all would be forgotten by September. But at OSU-Mansfield? I never thought they
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At the post office today, I mailed off my ballot for the 2006 American Library Association elections. Among my votes was one against the proposed increase in member dues. While at the post office, I picked up my mail, which included a packet from the ALA. And what did that
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If you go to this page on the U.S. Postal Service website and put in your address, you can get a list of the nearest post offices. If you then select the "What's Nearby" link under the post office location, you can learn what stores,
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My article for LIScareer.com about what public and academic librarians can learn from special librarians has been posted.
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[My response to this article in the Syracuse Post-Standard: ] As a contributor to the Wikipedia and a librarian, I disagree with the general tone of the article titled "Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as source" that appeared in the August 25 on-line Syracuse Post-Standard, and note that
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There is a plaque in one of the lounges of the Fondren Library at Rice University which commemorates the campus' "Reading for Pleasure Club". Does Rice also have a "Reading for Duty Club"?
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According to one of my library school professors, doctoral candidates could make money back in the day by writing article abstracts for the article-abstract databases that libraries subscribe to. She told us that students would often write these abstracts while hung over on a Saturday or Sunday morning. I think