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In the aftermath of this year’s debates over manipulated photos, a new show sets out to explore the history of altered images in photojournalism.

Information literacy is increasingly about images and media, not just text. Bad shops are easy to spot; carefully altered or staged images are more difficult. And can an image be a useful primary source if the photographer carefully set it up before taking it?

#information literacy #media #journalism #integrity

There ain't no License to ILL in the world of e.

#e-books #licensing #collection development #practice safe research

#4: That Facebook "mood" study. #5 really makes me wonder if all that money we're paying IEEE is worth it.

#practice safe research #scholarship #publishing #do you even peer review

Today's moment of library envy: Linköping Library, Sweden.

#libraries #beautiful libraries #library envy

Some days, I think this is an incredibly exciting time to be a librarian. Other days, I wonder if the profession will last another twenty years. Of course, these things are not mutually exclusive. (The comments are worth reading, too.)

#academia #libraries #future of libraries #digital futures

There are legitimate journals which charge author fees. These are not among them.

#publishing #practice safe research #open access #do you even peer review

Immortality by reference.

Most interesting to me is these libraries' establishment as community centers as well as book repositories, a function that public libraries still serve today.

#third place #library as place #library buildings #what we do

I'm going to hazard a guess that this guy hasn't been in a library lately, since we are already the kind of space he's talking about. Coffee included.

#libraries #third place #what we do

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Just the thing for my office door.

#signage #funny

An analysis of the federal appeals court decision in the Georgia State e-reserves case.

#copyright #fair use #academia #libraries #e-reserves

Some days I like to fantasize about having enough renovation money, or even any renovation money. On those days, I go looking for inspiring library spaces. This one is the Magnolia branch of the Seattle Public Library. I love how much is given over to windows, the high ceiling adding to the sense of space, the integration of shelves and workspaces.

#library as place #library buildings #library spaces #inspirations

A growing movement where nonprofit organizations are using computers, mobile devices, the internet, and even digital currencies to help improve the plight of the country’s poor and homeless, nudging them towards new jobs, new homes, regular healthcare, and other things that most people take for granted.

I'm currently working on a brief presentation on librarians as bridgers of gaps, and I think a lot of my professional colleagues, especially in public libraries, can relate to what Pugh has to say here. When you think about it, the homeless are an incredibly mobile population and there is an opportunity here with regard to mobile services and applications. It also doesn't surprise me that Pugh is a better teacher than an engineer who's never used the stuff he makes in a survival situation. Knowing where your students are at means not only being aware of what they know and can learn in the moment, but the context in which they're going to use what you teach them.

#libraries #information technology #teaching #what we do

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The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze

Held every year in New York, the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze is a 25-night-long Halloween event featuring some 5,000 hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins arranged into dinosaurs, witches, zombies, and other spooky forms. Via Instagram:

Although only associated with Halloween as we know it today since the late 1800s, the tradition of gourd carving dates back to the 18th and 19th centuries in rural Ireland and England. People created jack o’lanterns for the old holidays of Samhain and All Souls’ Night when spirits were thought to be the most active. Grotesque faces carved into the objects were meant to frighten away any ghouls seeking to do harm.

See many more photos on Flickr and Facebook.

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ULTIMATE HALLOWEEN

#images #holidays #halloween