Last week SLA’s Pittsburgh chapter had a “Reverse Mentoring” meeting, where library students showed professional librarians the Web 2.0 ropes, as it were. I was the designated Twitter person. We also had someone to cover blogging/RSS – Blogger and Google Reader, social networking sites – Facebook and LinkedIN, social tagging…
(I drafted an email for you, available here. Add or remove content as you see fit. Send it to Rep. Dwight Evans, devans@hacd.net, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations by May 26, 2009.) The House Committee on Appropriations is currently holding public hearings in Harrisburg, and they want written…
Getting the facts straight Even now, a year and a half after the release of Kindle 1.0–not even the first or most innovative of ebook readers–I keep seeing bloggers and other Web folk (many of them librarians or engineers who should know better) spouting off opinions like “why not just…
The PA Senate is talking about cutting library budgets drastically. Really, really drastically. You can find more information (including extra talking points!) here. If you live in PA, you can find your Senators’ names and e-mail addresses here. To get you started–because I know I hate composing letters from scratch–here’s…