Another week has passed, and the heat of the summer has struck Columbia, South Carolina like a wet mop. One thing is certain: I did not miss this wet, humid heat when I lived in Greenville, South Carolina. The mountains…
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Socrates, Crito, and Copyrighted Digital Materials
I used to be very uncertain about how I felt regarding illegally downloaded music or movies. Recently, a friend of ours told us that we should watch a particular movie that was relatively recently released, and she offered to let…
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“Information-as-Thing”
It’s been quite a while since I posted on the blog. The fall semester was such a whirlwind term with an intensive one-semester survey of database theory and design, so the blog had to take a vacation. Now that I…
Patron? Customer? User?
I’ve been personally contemplating with what to refer to library patrons/customers/users. Some environments actually have a certain word they like to use, and others leave it open. In some books, the word used is patron, though as a student of…
Fifty Shades of Grey: To Circulate or To Censor?
It seems like the censorship controversy of the day lies in the popular fiction Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that there is huge demand for the book, but yet there are…
New Digital Divide: Wasting Time? Thoughts on a NYT Article
As a future librarian, I find that the digital divide is a serious concern not only in this country but around the world. For years, there has been a large push to put technology in the hands of those who…
Advocacy
In my introduction to LIS course, we are spending each week discussing some different aspect of the LIS field. A few weeks ago, our topic was “Diversity in LIS,” and in the lecture, our professor included a little “embedded assignment”…
