Our nation%u2019s lawmakers have to share Washington, D.C. with a diverse group of residents. Among those residents are some of the most influential punk bands in history, and now, the D.C. Public Library decided to recognize this part of the city%u2019s history by creating the D.C. Punk Archive. Check out BBC%u2019s coverage in the video above.
http://diffuser.fm/dc-punk-rock-archive/
Presidential library sites offer new ways to understand the leaders
This piece is a response to an editorial titled – Does every president need his own library?
Opinion piece in the Washington Post
Excerpt: But why should each president get his own library? Multiple libraries are wasteful, costing taxpayers millions of dollars every year. And they’re undemocratic, because they allow our presidents — not the people who elected them — to define their legacies.
Presidential libraries aren’t mentioned in the Constitution or in any of our other founding documents. They date to 1938, when Franklin D. Roosevelt — midway through his second term of office — announced that he would personally construct a public archive in his native Hyde Park, N.Y.
Full piece:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/does-every-president-need-a-separate-library/2015/01/09/344dfa52-966e-11e4-927a-4fa2638cd1b0_story.html
Reading regular books comes with a slew of health benefits that their electronic counterparts don’t have.
Research and opinion from Medical Daily.
As products and services advance, plenty of nostalgists believe that certain elements of humanity have been lost. One contrarian argues that being attached to one%u2019s iPhone is a godsend.
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/andrew-ohagan-technology/?_r=0
The worlds that went paperless first were not, it turns out, those designed to make a more open world. Rather, they were, without exception, communities deeply invested in the control of information. They wanted information to be under their control more than they cared about its circulation on your behalf. Amid all our optimism about what digitization can do, this seems like an origin story to remember.
http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2015/01/07/the-digital-is-a-place-to-hide/
L.A. TRAFFIC SIGN IS HACKED TO SAY “READ A F%u2014%u2014ING BOOK”
One can only assume it was a librarian 🙂
http://www.laweekly.com/news/la-traffic-sign-is-hacked-to-say-read-a-f-ing-book-photos-5331670
Despite his vigilance, however, signs of possible research misconduct have crept into some articles published in Diagnostic Pathology. Six of the 14 articles in the May 2014 issue, for instance, contain suspicious repetitions of phrases and other irregularities. When Scientific American informed Kayser, he was apparently unaware of the problem. “Nobody told this to me,” he says. “I’m very grateful to you.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-sale-your-name-here-in-a-prestigious-science-journal/
The new tech arrives at a tranistional time for cultural institutions. As technology has advanced, it%u2019s changed why people visit libraries and museums. In the wake of the Great Recession, just as many people used libraries for free computer and Internet access as they did to borrow books.
http://www.fastcompany.com/3040451/elasticity/the-internet-of-things-plan-to-make-libraries-and-museums-awesomer
You might think technology would spell the end of books and libraries. But many schools have embraced the digital revolution and built innovative spaces that foster a love of literature
http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/jan/08/school-libraries-books-students-technology
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