Lance Ulanoff is not telling me anything new with his article in PC Magazine. I’ve been saying this for quite a while now . The internet te...

Ellyssa Kroski , Reference Librarian at Columbia University, has just come out with a fantastic article on using Web 2.0 for academic librar...

There are some books which I classify as being the "gold standards" for understanding the new Web. I believe all information pro...

Not everyone gets his or her dream job right out of LIS school. For some, it might mean years of toil and abuse in the dungeons of part-tim...

This is what happens when technology breaks down.... Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

Sometimes we forget (or too preoccupied with "real" library matters) to realize that the library is a social space . As much as l...

Watching the Transformers was a marvellous treat. Personally and professionally. As the movie was unfolding before my eyes, there were a ...

While much has been written about Web 2.0 , not much has been mentioned about postmodernism in librarianship. Is there a connection? Mark...

It has been more than a decade since the advent of the World Wide Web. When it first came out, librarians worried about how this new mediu...

Information retrieval is an art, with creativity as a core ingredient. When done right, it is fun. With success, it is fabulously rewar...

At dinner today, a fellow colleague asked what are my perceptions of the the profession and the job market. My answer? I am optimistic. ...

The Emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education offers a very nice per...

Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation is an excellent read, one definitely worthy of serious consideration for practitioners ...

Librarians (and all information professionals) need to understand what the Long Tail is in order to fully comprehend the impact of Web 2.0 ...

Library 2.0 has received quite a bit of controversy recently when Wikipedia community debated whether the term deserved a place on Wikipedi...