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Everyone Needs a Librarian

Two reviews of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo: Weblogg-ed and Academic Librarian.

That's really one of the great challenges of libraries going forward: convincing students that we have something to offer to them, that we know something that they don't, that old fogies can be web savvy. As far as learning to be a scholar, Wayne Bivens-Tatum points out that the way the humanities are studied really hasn't changed. Our obsession with being "innovative" in the way we deliver collections and services to humanities scholars is, beyond a certain point, kind of delusional:

Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime (Seattle Times) Microsoft denies handing law enforcement ‘backdoor’ keys (Lamp) 3. Sorry But You Can’t Have It All (ACRLog) Do I really want it all? (LISNews.org) But What If I Don’t Want it All? (Academic Librarian) 4. Stepping into marketing (Open Stacks) 5. MARC, OPACs, and Podcasts (GutterType) Submissions on the agenda that we didn’t get to: Appraising the Deborah Jacobs revolution at Seattle libraries

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A Vision of K-12 Students Today

Angelochek7 wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt This video seems to imply that the various digital technologies they want to use are at all difficult to use, as if anything that doesn’

Joel: Education is certainly about more than conforming the students to No Child Left Behind, but it’s also about more than “digital learning,” and learning can take place without the digital. There are numerous problems with the public