My favorite quote from this talk:
I have this rather grand vision of myself as Morpheus from the Matrix. “Here, students, are two pills. Take the Red Pill and your life will never be the same again, the world of information will look fundamentally different, and there will be no turning back. Take the Blue Pill and you’ll probably pass your term paper.”
Source: Locations of Literacy: Information Literacy (plenary panel at MnWE 2014)
A sample of slides for this Friday’s #carl14 preconference workshop with Young Lee, Cynthia Orozco and myself. Did I mention we will be using Legos?
Made it to San Jose for #carl14. Now off to run to Target for some last minute workshop supplies (ie snacks) (at Dolce Hayes Mansion)
Quarter for scale (at Cha Cha Sushi)
It’s not an academic librarian conference if there isn’t arm wrestling #carl14 (at Dolce Hayes Mansion)
Read. A lot.
Source: The Buffett Formula
Berners-Lee:
“We need our lawyers and our politicians to understand programming, to understand what can be done with a computer. We also need to revisit a lot of legal structure, copyright law – the laws that put people in jail which have been largely set up to protect the movie producers … None of this has been set up to preserve the day to day discourse between individuals and the day to day democracy that we need to run the country.”
Source: An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web
Parents just shipped us a truckload of furniture including my dad’s roll top
eth is a parascholarly poetry press interested in publishing innovative poetry that is inspired by, adapted from, or otherwise inhabited by medieval texts. Call for proposals.
It was on the way to home depot and I needed coffee (at Randy’s Donuts)
From Library Babel Fish:
“The future can be used for all the wrong reasons. The language we use about libraries and the future is often dystopian and apocalyptic, full of death threats: adapt or die; libraries are screwed; embrace disruptive innovation or resign yourselves to irrelevance.”
Made Valentines to hand out to students tomorrow
“What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition? Not even decide what ideas you should or shouldn’t talk about, but to actually make rules about what order to put your words in… It’s such an amazing kind of petty tyranny.”
