flatworld

In my MLS course for the semester, we began by covering some of the history of school libraries; a much briefer tale than I realized. The Internet School Library Media Center has a great page detailing the historical development of libraries in America leading up to the formation of School Libraries around the turn of [...]

Victor Central Schools, a district just SE of Rochester, is holding a summit on "Educating Students for Life in a Global Economy" on February 15th at 7:00 PM. The school community has been reading Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century and this summit is the next step in their [...]

Andy Carvin, that global traveler for the good of information access and champion in the fight against the Digital Divide, brings us the text of the Dhaka Declaration from the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Conference.
There are some great quotes…
hereby declare our common desire and commitment to build a free multi-stakeholder, people-centric, inclusive [...]

Doug Johnson, library and technology guru, has been pondering the impact of the flattening of the world on school libraries. In the very interesting format of an advertising letter for an outsourcing takeover of a school library, Doug Johnson covers many of the problems and potentials I pondered a bit ago. In a flat world, [...]

Or, why outsourcing libraries (in totallity) probably wouldn’t be that effetive.
While Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century postulates that anything that can be outsourced will be outsourced, and my previous post explored some ways in which libraries and librarians might not be as secure from outsourcing as you [...]