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Jennifer Parsons

The Bedbug Bunk: How the New York Times Used Fear and Misinformation to Spread Public L... - 0 views

  • Brooke Borel, author of the forthcoming book Suck: The Tale of the Bed Bug, has also responded to Saint Louis’s article. She points out that Saint Young is outright wrong in declaring that bedbugs have only just “discovered a new way to hitchhike” through books. “This is an ancient pest, and it has been doing its thing for at least thousands of years. Probably far, far longer.” She also reiterates what entomologists have been telling me over the past two days. The risk is low. “You aren’t very likely to pick up bed bugs in these types of public spaces. The bugs are far more highly concentrated in residences, where they can breed and multiply in close proximity to their food source.”
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    Reports of bedbug demise have been greatly exaggerated, it seems.
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    That's a relief. I was itchy just thinking about that.
Scott Peterson

New York Times article on Kopimism - 0 views

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    A New York times article that covers Kopimism in death.
Scott Peterson

For Gathering and for Solitude - 0 views

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    The fourth New York Times article, this time looking at libraries both as gather places and as for solitude. Two of his comments stood out to me: "....we tend to subscribe to a set of norms: studiousness, solitude and quiet above all. These connect the sense that all these disparate places really are one place, consistent across times and cultures." And: "In their long history, libraries have been models for the world and models of the world...."
Scott Peterson

It's Not Just Story Time and Bookmobiles - 0 views

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    The third of four New York Times articles; written by a school librarian and focusing on how libraries are a participatory culture.
Scott Peterson

Failing to Close the 'Digital Divide' - 0 views

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    One of four articles from the New York Times about the debate if we still need libraries--focusing mostly on Internet access rather than other services.
Scott Peterson

More Relevant Than Ever - 0 views

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    The second of four New York Times articles, written by a librarian and therefore supportive, but he made several good points. Most learning centers offer computer skills in only English, but to offer those in four foreign languages is impressive, along with the move to circulating digital media and devices.
Scott Peterson

Writer can't give her book away - 0 views

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    The title is misleading, rather than being about a author who can't get people to read her book its about an author who wrote a well received historical/scholarly book but can't get her local library to accept a copy because it's not on the New York Times best seller list.
anonymous

The North West London Blues by Zadie Smith | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books - 1 views

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    Just a great story... Libraries are not failing "because they are libraries." Neglected libraries get neglected, and this cycle, in time, provides the excuse to close them. Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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