February 2012
159 posts
Wonder what the initial policy violation was…
A 16-year-old Shorewood boy was arrested for disorderly conduct after he refused to follow computer rules at the Shorewood Public Library, 3920 N. Murray Ave., and became offensive when asked to leave by library staff and police. The incident occurred at 3:15 p.m.
(via ShorewoodPatch)
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January 2012
112 posts
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“14. Use the same attention you reserve for riding around buses and garbage...”
– How To Bring A Bike On The New York City Subway | The Awl
“The public perception is, it would seem, that Google and Wikipedia have made...”
– “The Great Librarian Massacre of 2012”: a cataloging librarian’s view (via librarianrafia)
“If Google doesn’t like your name, it can block you; if Facebook doesn’t like...”
– How much should we trust our new information overlords? — Tech News and Analysis (via infoneer-pulse)
N.Y. Airports Account for Half of All Delays -... →
TRUTH.
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Two ex-Walker aides charged with illegal... →
(If you’re stuck behind JSOnline’s paywall, see this workaround).
Milwaukee County prosecutors also made the surprising disclosure that top Walker aides set up a private Internet network set up by top Walker aides to allow them to communicate with one another by email about campaign as well as county government work without the public or co-workers’ knowledge.
The emails ...
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Why We Need a 4th R: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic,...
Read the whole amazing post by Cathy Davidson here….
I have a basic literacy to add to the last century’s 3 R’s of “reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmetic.” Let’s add a 4th R: “algoRithm.” (Yes, I know that’s a fudge, but writing and arithmetic aren’t perfect either.)
The Case for Learning to Code
Let’s start emphasizing our 4th R in kindergarten, even preschool, since, like the other...
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“Kate Winslet and Catherine Keener”
– Kate Winslet and Catherine Keener Join Charlie Kaufman’s Frank or Francis — Vulture
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Keep Good Searches from Going Bad →
infoneer-pulse:
There are many excellent research databases that school libraries subscribe to each year. Proquest, CQ Researcher, and ABC/CLIO are three that my district uses. Yet when given a research assignment, the first place students turn to is Google or another public search engine. For better or worse, it’s a fact of life in the modern classroom. I’m not saying we should sideline those...
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“So let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop...”
– President Obama, 2012 SOTU
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“The risk of death associated with a full-term pregnancy and delivery is 8.8...”
– Abortion Safer for Women Than Childbirth, Study Claims - US News and World Report
“According to the Internal Revenue Service’s most recent available...”
– Inside the Romney Tax Returns - NYTimes.com
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“I conclude that the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of...”
– Judge Orders Defendant to Decrypt Laptop | Threat Level | Wired.com
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“If we flag the name you intend to use, you can provide us with information to...”
– Google - Toward a more inclusive naming policy for Google+
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Overcoming Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Online...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel now limits access to online articles to 20 stories a month for non-subscribers. Exceed this limit, and you’re presented with this paywall.
But, it’s not too hard to get around it. When presented with this overlay, simply save the page as HTML to your desktop (the actual article gets saved, not that paywall warning), and then open that file in your...
“Cain/Colbert have taken 5,937 votes, compared to the 2,336 earned by Perry”
– Stephen Colbert, Herman Cain Take Fifth Place In South Carolina Primary
infoneer pulse: The Digital Flip That Matters →
We cannot wait for Wikipedia outages to remind users that Wikipedia is but one tool of thousands available to them through their libraries. Libraries are not paper Wikipedias … they are much broader, deeper, and richer than that (and much, if not most information within libraries is not even on…
“Step back and think about this picture. Universities that created this academic...”
– Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research - Laura McKenna - Business - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
“Clan of the Cave Bear is a little like Neanderthal fan fiction, and Ayla is a...”
– ‘Clan Of The Cave Bear’: Neanderthal Fan Fic | The Awl
New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google →
infoneer-pulse:
If you try to create a Google account from Google’s homepage, you’ll notice that Google redesigned the page, but that’s not all. You’ll now have to create a Gmail account, a Google Profile and you’ll automatically join Google+.
Until now, creating a Google account was quite simple. You could either use an existing email address or create a Gmail account. The redesigned form...
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ybot replied to your quote: hip and sexy
“It’s yummy,” said Kaboord, who says she is so over Cosmopolitans.
Trying to ignore that.
::mumbles to self:: where’s that damn triple sec
“hip and sexy”
– Bourbon makes triumphant return - JSOnline
Libraries: A Paper Wikipedia →
infoneer-pulse:
“No Wikipedia, No fears…. The library is always here with all the answers you will ever need!” tweeted the staff at Temple University.
The librarians at Western Connecticut State University posted, “The library has plenty of online encyclopedias to help you survive today’s wikipedia blackout.”
And at Detroit’s Wayne State University, distraught students were encouraged by this...
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“The nature of academic and research librarianship changed today. Today, all...”
– So this just happened. (Twitter channel.) 