Feedback: Letters to LJ, December 15, 2010
Few jobs in archives Both Stephanie Maatta (“Stagnant Salaries, Rising Unemployment,” LJ 10/15/10, p. 22–29) and Francine Fialkoff (“Sold on a Graying Profession,” Editorial, LJ 11/1/10, p. 8) mention “potentially ‘hot’ specializations including archive...
Editorial: Passionate About Reading
LJ ’S first librarian of the year, in 1989, felt as if she’d been demoted when she was transferred from the main library in Garland, TX, to the Walnut Creek Branch as an adult services librarian. A decade earlier, she’d been head of that branch when it...
Feedback | Letters to LJ, February 15, 2011
An abandoned librarian I completed my MLIS from an American Library Association (ALA)–accredited program in 2005. My MLIS cost me $30,000-plus. Since then I have not obtained temporary or permanent employment as a professional librarian. I have earned...
We Don’t Need Google | Editorial
Judge Denny Chin may have disappointed his alma mater (he is Princeton ’75, according to The Daily Princetonian) when he ruled against the Google Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) on March 22, 2011. Princeton was one of the university libraries to pa...
Feedback | Letters to LJ, April 15, 2011
No outlets, no support In response to Harold N. Boyer’s “No free electricity” (Feedback, LJ 3/1/11, p. 10), I can understand budgetary concerns pertaining to the digital generation’s use of outlets at the library. I am a member of this newer generation...
Feedback | Letters to LJ, February 15, 2011
An abandoned librarian I completed my MLIS from an American Library Association (ALA)–accredited program in 2005. My MLIS cost me $30,000-plus. Since then I have not obtained temporary or permanent employment as a professional librarian. I have earned...
The Benefits of Less | The User Experience
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a daring pilot and talented author, also weighed in on user experience:
“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.”
In s...
Feedback: Letters to LJ, October 15, 2010
Not through politicians I read with great interest John Berry’s column on how libraries can tap popular support by going directly to the voters (Blatant Berry, LJ 9/1/10, p. 8). Here in New York State, the average passage rate for library budget votes ove...
LJ BackTalk: Go "Title Rogue"
What is it with the library profession and our obsession with individual titles? Is it insecurity? Fear? Elitism? Maybe the focus on titles is not entirely our fault. Perhaps the variety and inherent inconsistency found in this era of ever more creativ...
More Alike Than We Think | Editorial
The disparity between public and academic libraries—and librarians—seems to be shrinking, if the recent Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) conference in Philadelphia is any indication. On a number of fronts, some big picture and weigh...