Note that Lita Casey was a library aide. The article title is misleading.
9-year-old Tyler Weaver was accused of ‘hogging’ the Hudson Falls Free Library summer reading contest after winning five years in a row. The library fired Lita Casey after she spoke up for her little friend.
The Full Story: New York librarian fired after speaking up for child who read too much | NY Daily News.
Librarians and news outlets have been busy this summer, providing plenty of news-worthy articles and blog posts of interest to libraries. Here are 50 such stories that will get you caught up on the latest in the library world.
See the list of links: 50 Library Stories You May Have Missed in August | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org.
I don’t know what to say about Riptide, the massive oral history of digital journalism that popped up on the Web tonight.
That’s because I’ve been looking at it for a couple hours, and have no idea how much of it I’ve consumed.
But it doesn’t seem like a very significant percentage: The project, sponsored by Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center, revolves around interviews with more than 60 people who have played key roles in the way news and the news business has transformed in the last few decades.
There are more than 50 hours of video on the site.
via Riptide Digital News History Interviews with Google, Twitter, NYT – Peter Kafka | AllThingsD.
When you want to know whether or not to buy that phone, install that software update, or join yet another social network, these are the feeds you need to follow. From gadgets to the operating systems that power them, these sources will keep you in the know.
This summer has been fantastic for library news, blogs posts, and articles. If you’re just getting caught up, here’s a list of library-related stories that will keep you busy!
via 35 Library Stories You May Have Missed in July | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org.
Bezos told the Post that as its new owner he would be entering “uncharted terrain” that would “require experimentation”. He tried to assuage those who fear his reign might bring editorial interference by saying “there would be change with our without new ownership. But the key thing I hope people will take away from this is that the values of the Post do not need changing. The duty of the paper is to the readers, not the owners.”
See the full article: Washington Post sold to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for $250m | Media | The Guardian.
When Google Reader announced it was shutting down a few months ago, most of us stamped our feet, panicked, and went running into the arms of another RSS reader. But Matt Jibson is different. Unlike most of us, he can crunch code. So he built a Google Reader of his very own own.
And last week, the effort paid off. Last Thursday, just weeks before Google was set to pull the plug, Jibson flipped on the lights to Go Read, his open-source response to Google abandonment. He posted the project on Hacker News and his code on GitHub.
See the full article: via How a Lone Coder Cloned Google Reader | Gizmodo.
30 Twitter Accounts to Follow for Technology News and Insights Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org
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