Here are my remarks for Jim Neal's Presidential Program was "Are libraries neutral?" I was on the "con" side of the debate. tl;dr version - no they are not. The video of the session should be available soon, but some of the participants have posted their remarks (I'll add as they come online here): Chris…
Peter Alsbjer 16.10.2014 i
bloggen "Den inre fienden Flummigt och oförargligt om kultur och bibliotek i interaktionssamhället sedan 2007":
"Det finns en gräns även för mig. Varför ska jag överhuvud hålla på med den här typen av omvärldsbevakning när de slutsatser jag drar och den utveckling för bibliotek, media och kultur jag analyserar kallas för bisarr, enfaldig, flummig och oförarglig på ett publikt forum, med ett par tusen kollegor från hela landet som medlemmar? Där det på…"
"What excites me about ebooks is not that they’re easier to carry around but that they’re digital documents. Couple that with a digital network, and now we’re talking about reinventing reading." "...there are plenty of reasons to finish the book /I am writing - mb/ and create editions (version control, for instance), but they are now choices, not rules dictated by the medium." ".. see reading for what it truly is: a conversation in which authors, readers, and an entire community can use the book to build knowledge and exchange ideas"
samedi 1er juillet 2006 « De nouvelles approches pour signaler les informations crédibles sur le Web » David Lankes, enseignant à l’université de Syracuse aux Etats-Unis et codirecteur de Credibility Commons, étudie la pertinence de l’information sur l’Internet. par Ewen Chardronnet
"For too long have we defined the core of our profession – service – as standing ready to serve. No one ever improved the world by standing ready." Lankes in Salzburg 26 oktober
By Lawrence Wittner, Copy of an artcke in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Schweitzer had his "Declara-tion of Conscience" reatl ovei' Radio Oslo on April 23,1957, and eventually broadcast in nations around the world: World statesmen were "telling one another again and again that they want nothing more than to reach an agreement to end the testing of atomic weapons." But why did they not come to an agreement? "The real reason is that in their own countries there is no public opinion asking for it."
Det er grunn til setje spørjeteikn ved kvaliteten på formidlingstenestene som vert levert ved norske folkebibliotek. Av Rita Mundal, biblioteksjef i Lom 8. JUNI 2012.