I have many reasons to distrust digital books. The moves to restrict library lending and control patron usage are high on the list: Just to be clear, this means that eBook ownership now expires after a set number of uses. Libraries no longer “own” the rights to the purchased titles for perpetuity. This is a [...]

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Hey, wow. I’m part of a growing trend. According the Chronicle of Higher Edumacation, information literacy is becoming a larger part of instruction for community college students. Such courses are designed to help students find, communicate, and critically evaluate online information. The average percentage increase in the number of these classes offered from the fall [...]

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So the Shiny Librarian gets me hip to infodoodads, which means I learn about all kindsa nifty sites, widgets and whatnot to play with, including silobreaker, a news and information gathering portal that will replace whatever love I have for googlenews, especially because it offers this addictive little toy: News Trends. News Trends is a [...]

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