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The Case Against Curation

11.28.2011 Art

There are times when our use of language shifts and the meaning of words is altered. I typically don’t fight against it. But this current hijacking of the word “curation” to mean “a list of things on other web sites that I link to” is a poor word choice. A curator is someone who is [...]

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So Much Music — iTunes Match & Life In The Cloud

11.21.2011 Future

I’m completely giddy over iTunes Match. I love music. As soon as iTunes was first released in January of 2001 I started ripping all of my CDs into an online collection. I also borrowed CDs from friends, libraries, and anywhere I could get my hands on them. Both of my daughters are musicians and music [...]

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Librarians And The Filter Bubble

06.16.2011 Books and Literature

You may be living in a bubble and not even know it. I’ve recently read Eli Pariser’s new book, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You. It has many clear connections with the role of libraries (and perhaps their fate). “If you’re not paying for something [on the internet], you’re not the [...]

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Library Myth #1: Librarians Are Just Clerks

06.15.2011 Books and Literature

“When I was a kid, they used to predict that by the year 2000, you’d be able to go to the moon. Nobody ever thought to predict that you’d be able to, but nobody would bother.” — Roger Ebert in his review of the film Apollo 13. Indifference seems to be the besetting sin of [...]

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In Defense Of Libraries

06.14.2011 Books and Literature

More than a few communities are beginning to deemphasize, privatize, or close their libraries, claiming that they’re no longer needed or wanted. Some use the specious argument: “we just can’t afford it ” when they really mean, “we don’t’ want to pay for it.” And some are saying “Libraries aren’t needed any more. We don’t [...]

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