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» ALA News Archive - Collected headlines related to US libraries, grouped by month of publication. Archives go back to 1997.
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» ERIC Digests on Libraries - Offers an annotated list with links to ERIC Digests that relate to libraries, librarianship, and library science.
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» LibLinks - Directory of library resource links organized by US states.
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» Libraries, Information and Society - Postings and information from this international, holist and free Internet discussion forum to promote the commons and openness values of public information, and knowledge.
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» Library Lovers' Month - Offers library support groups some ideas for making February a month-long celebration of school, public, and private libraries of all types.
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» St. Jerome (331-420 A.D.) - A long biography of the patron of librarians, the most learned of the Fathers of the Western Church.
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» Stump the Librarian - List of correctly answered questions by reference librarians at Central Michigan University that were submitted as part of contest.
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» UNESCO Libraries Portal - Directory of online resources on librarianship and library science, as well as the websites of individual institutions.
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» Wikipedia - Libraries - Encyclopedia article which examines the history and issues relating to libraries.
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» You Are Not Alone (Maybe) - Frequently asked reference questions, posted by the University of Michigan's Internet Public Library.
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- ICDK 2011 : Call for Papers and Registration
Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to announce the call for papers & registration of the
forthcoming International Conference on Digital Libraries and
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- Re: Boise library condiment crime & stake-out
That wouldn't be the Ms. Kevin SWilson, wood it?
--
Joe
in an outhouse near Boise State
somewhere in Ida-Ho
- Boise library condiment crime & stake-out
[link]
Boise police say they nabbed a woman Sunday who they believed has
caused thousands of dollars in damage to library books and other
items by pouring liquids, including corn syrup and ketchup, into a
drop box at the Ada County Library on Victory Road. Police say the
- Re: Tiny "great books" college thwarts hostile takeover
Catawumpus <kimmer...@fastmail.fm>:
...
z <shull...@gmail.com>:
Seems like I hit a nerve, but it's unclear you're the kind
of lifeform that has a nervous system.
-- Catawumpus
- Re: Tiny "great books" college thwarts hostile takeover
as you, the answer is no
- Re: Tiny "great books" college thwarts hostile takeover
do you ever shut up..?
- Re: Tiny "great books" college thwarts hostile takeover
Zack <hamm.zach...@gmail.com>:
Out of curiosity I went and looked up the passage. Here's
what I found:
Admittedly, it is primarily persons that have
authority; but the authority of persons is ultimately
based not on the subjection and abdication of reason
but on an act of acknowledgment and knowledge�the
- Every university & college library should have one of these, but so far, only one does
I've just written a blog post entitled "Every university library
should have one of these, but so far, only one does" - which could
equally apply to college libraries:
[link]
Towards the middle of the post is featured the first (and so far only)
- Re: Tiny "great books" college thwarts hostile takeover
On May 3, 9:00 pm, Bureau of Public Secrets <kn...@bopsecrets.org>
wrote:
- Re: Tiny "great books" college thwarts hostile takeover
Zack <hamm.zach...@gmail.com>:
Thanks for the cite. Too bad that you forgot the quote to
go along: y'know, the part that might do the convincing.
Unless you expect me to accept authority on Gadamer's authority.
In which case a bootstrap problem looms. Anyway, you're
confirming my sense that Shimer is an authoritarian institution.
- Re: Tiny "great books" college thwarts hostile takeover
Well, you're clearly a reactionary who won't be satisified with
anything less than some dream of Catalonian Anarcho-Syndicalism, which
never really existed, so I wont try and convince you any further than
this: Authority, believe it or not, can be legitimate, particularly
when its derived from knowledge and skill (in Shimer geek fashion, I'd
- Re: Tiny "great books" college thwarts hostile takeover
Zack <hamm.zach...@gmail.com>:
Uh-huh. I got that idea -- though without all the details
you've added -- from the article on the BOPS website. The
term which leaps to mind is "co-optation." I'm not sure, maybe
also "roach motel."
By your own admission, what you label an "outlier in terms
- Re: Tiny "great books" college thwarts hostile takeover
Catawumpus,
Students at Shimer, through their membership in the Assembly and
election to Assembly committees, are involved in a real and tangible
way not just in the design of that core curriculum, but also the
choice of electives, the hiring (and firing!) of faculty and staff,
the setting of the school's budget, the awarding of financial aid, the
- Re: Tiny "great books" college thwarts hostile takeover
Bureau of Public Secrets <kn...@bopsecrets.org>:
Lots of blah-blah-blah there, but what stands out to me is
the contrast between objections to "an increasingly
dictatorial administration" and blithe acceptance of the regime
in which "three out of the four years are taken up with an
intricately interrelated course sequence that everyone is