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Free Speech vs. Social Justice: Should Hate Speech be Protected?
No full textEditor’s note: Publication by JIFP does not constitute an endorsement of the content or represent the official position of the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) or the American Library Association (ALA). Commentaries, articles, and book reviews do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JIFP, OIF, ALA, or their affiliates.There is a troubling trend within the library profession. As a result of blind allegiance to free speech absolutism, librarians are forgetting that we exist in a society. Libraries are social spaces and therefore spaces for social justice
ALA Midwinter GODORT Committee Highlights
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Editor’s Corner
No full textAs government information professionals, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say most of us have been closely watching the events related to missing sensitive documents and former President Donald Trump unfold. Historically, outgoing presidents did, in fact, take their documents with them when they left office because they were considered personal property, but the Presidential Records Act of 1978 (44 U.S.C. ß2201-2209) changed that. Thanks to the Watergate scandal during the Richard Nixon administration four years prior, all presidential and vice-presidential documents are now publicly owned and housed in the National Archives—that includes anything from margin notes and doodles to top secret national security materials
Book Review: Transforming Print: Collection Development and Management for Our Connected Future
No full textThis book provides an interesting and insightful look at the broad cross-section of print collections with digital surrogates, and supplies many good reasons why print is still valuable even with the proliferation of digital options. I would like to begin my review by taking a cue from chapter 3 (“Working Toward Human-Centered, Reparative Change”): I am a white, cisgender, able-bodied woman, and a library administrator. As the authors of that chapter state, it is important to take note of how the authors’ “identities shape this work, but also how yours informs your understanding of” (34) the work. Within that context, I found this book to provide useful examples of how print materials can be instrumental in “equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice (EDISJ)” (118) work within libraries
Editorial: Embracing an Open Future
No full textThis issue of LRTS marks the first under the guidance of the new editorial team, and we’d like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves, describe the work we are currently undertaking, and look ahead towards our goals for this publication. We are both pleased to work with our colleagues throughout the profession to ensure that LRTS remains integral to the scholarship and practice of library collections, technical services, scholarly communication, and related areas. LRTS is in a time of transition. We began our work in March and have since finalized the editorial board, familiarized ourselves with the articles under review, and met with a variety of groups in the Core shared governance structure. Core is still a young organization and the editorial staff of the three Core journals—Information Technology and Libraries, Library Leadership Management, and LRTS—have been given the charge of bringing the journals into alignment. Among other things, this will mean implementing a shared procedure to facilitate name change requests and, eventually, migrating all journals to a unified platform. Importantly, it will also mean that LRTS content will be free to read with no embargo beginning in 2023
Chapter 6. GIS, Historical Research, and Microdata
No full textChapter 6 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 58, no. 4) “GIS, Historical Research, and Microdata,” covers some advanced topics, typically the first or most common ones that new users of census data will encounter. These include using geographic information systems (GIS), doing historical analysis, and working with microdata. The Current Population Survey is introduced as an example of the last
Chapter 5. Other Delivery Solutions: Google’s Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA) and Entitlement Checks in Content Syndication Partnerships with ResearchGate
No full textGoogle Scholar is one of the most popular academic search engines used by researchers. As a result, Google’s Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA), which enables researchers to authenticate content from CASA-supported publishers even when off campus, is an important delivery method. Another site highly visited by researchers is the scholarly collaboration network ResearchGate. Publishers such as Springer Nature and Wiley are syndicating their content to ResearchGate, which leads to yet another new method of authentication based on the ResearchGate profile. Chapter 5 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 58, no. 6), “Other Delivery Solutions: Google’s Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA) and Entitlement Checks in Content Syndication Partnerships with ResearchGate,” will discuss both of these solutions
Chapter 2. Design for the User, Not the Staff
No full textI was once asked to talk to a library science class at a large university about what I do and what real-world advice I might care to impart to a group of potential web librarians. One of the things I shared was the major challenges that I typically face in my job.Being in a tech position means that keeping up is a must, and “keeping up” is a moving target. It’s a huge undertaking, and I don’t always feel like I’m conquering it. However, that’s not one of the things that raises my blood pressure. In every job, there are obstacles that one enjoys working around, and then there are those that make one want to pull one’s hair out
Peace, Patience, and Remote Learning: An Origami Lesson
No full textAfter a full year of remote education, most students have experienced some form of online or hybrid learning. Those who enrolled in Adjunct Lecturer Linda Diekman’s Summer 2021 iSchool course (Information Books and Resources for Youth) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, were immersed in learning to locate, evaluate, and select factual print and nonprint materials for youth while being cognizant of the children’s intellectual, emotional, social, and physical needs. Developing thoughtful and intentional lessons to better connect with and support each and every youth is imperative in lesson planning, especially during a world pandemic
Challenges to Children’s Picture Books with LGBTQ Themes: A 30-Year Review
No full textFor more than thirty years, the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has collected data regarding banned and challenged books in the U.S. Since this record keeping began, books with LGBTQ themes have made up a significant portion of the challenged books listed on the ALA’s Top 100 Most Challenged Books of the decade lists and Top 10 Most Challenged Books of the year lists