Guess who’s library owns El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos : espacio, cuerpo y poder by Sergio Rivera-Ayala? I just checked, and no, I was not the one who ordered it. (If you are wondering why this is funny, see this post and this other...

Two recent articles in Inside Higher Ed have me feeling a little down about library/faculty relations in the American academy. In A Win for the Stacks, we hear about how Syracuse University faculty are petitioning and protesting a plan for the library...

At a meeting in my library recently, one of my colleagues expressed her frustration that one of the First Year Experience (FYE) classes that had been her responsibility had slipped away without a library session. We try and get 100% of these FYE...

The newest issue of the Library Sciety of the World Zine, It Looks Like Someone Set Off a Librarian Bomb in Here (known to the FBI as “Librarian Bomb”) is finally available for order. In this issue of the LSW zine, you will find photographs, reports...

I have mentioned Jason Scott several times on this blog. He’s the guy who runs textfiles.com, blogs at ASCII, and came up with the Archive Team to save orphaned/closing websites (like, say, Geocities). He’s an outspoken pain in the ass and I admire him...