In my Community Relations & Advocacy class, we are currently analyzing and discussing ethical dilemmas. One of the problematic situations is this: “A parents’ group, concerned with recently publicized accounts of children being stalked in the library by pedophiles, requests that the Children’s Department of the library be off-limits to everyone except children under the [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Ethical Librarianship
Posted in Community Relations & Advocacy, tagged access, advocacy, children, community relations, ethics, libraries, public relations on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Marketing & Advocacy: Lessons from the Nonprofit Sector
Posted in Graduate Assistantship, tagged advocacy, domestic violence, freedom, information, literacy, marketing, nonprofit on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In our Community Relations & Advocacy class, George posed an interesting question: “Is there a way to capture…instances where a library or librarian has made a real difference and corral that into evidence of value that would compel others to use and support the library?” I have a couple thoughts on ways that libraries can make [...]
Spreading the News: Kindle vs. Smart Phones
Posted in Graduate Assistantship, tagged access, newspapers, technology on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an article from MediaShift comparing the usability of the Kindle and the iPhone with regards to newspaper content. And speaking of news, here’s a book review of Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy, by Alex S. Jones.
