This Week in LibraryBlogLand (5 June 05)

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending June 5, 2005

Karen Schneider, the Free Range Librarian, posted her thoughts and observations about Wikipedia.

At LibraryPlanet, Michael argues against Ben Ostroswsky’s proposed anonymous library cards, while Christie at BlogJunction thinks the cards are a great idea.

Infomancy’s Christopher Harris explains why North Carolina’s proposed Parental Empowerment Act of 2005, which would have local parent review boards review all school library and classroom materials before purchase, would be bad for information literacy.

Donna Feddern at PromoteYourLibrary talks about the importance of branding for libraries.

The June 3, 2005, issue of Library Juice reprints postings from JESSE, the library educators’ mailing list, about online library PhDs and library PhDs in general.

Aaron Schmidt at walking paper has a few thoughts about helping patrons by being user centered versus being library centered.