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Uncontrolled Vocabulary #71 – A Startlingly Poor Grasp of Basic Economics
By Greg | February 20, 2009
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #71 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
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On the call:
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Anna Creech, University of Richmond
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
David Rothman, Community General Hospital Medical Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Chris Zammarelli, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Topics:
1. Most State Library jobs could be history (pennlive.com)
2. Why aren’t ebooks taking off? Not enough pirates (The Guardian)
3. Doomed: why Wikipedia will fail (ars technica)
Why Wikipedia’s Policy to Blacklist Blogs is Outdated and Wrong (ReadWriteWeb)
4. In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update (New York Times)
5. A Dirty Little Secret: Self-Censorship (School Library Journal)
6. Is Your Library a Star? LJ Launches the Index of Public Library Service (Library Journal)
Topics: Episodes | 2 Comments »
February 24th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
[...] think that the title of the last (for now show) A Startlingly Poor Grasp of Basic Economics serves as a tribute to the quality and honesty of discussion often featured on the podcast. His [...]
March 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
From the SLA Public Policy Blog:
“The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on 7 March that a figure published in Governor Rendell’s budget proposal that projected a 90 percent staffing reduction was wrong.
“Staffing reductions within the State Library of Pennsylvania are now projected to be in line with a 50 percent budget decrease. This translates to the possible elimination of approximately 28 of the 56 library positions (not the elimination of 50 of the 56 library positions as originally reported by the press based on the budget error).”