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Wikipediocracy - 15 views

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shared by Martha Hickson on 24 Mar 15 - No Cached

Martha Hickson on 24 Mar 15

"We exist to shine the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia and its related projects; to examine the corruption there, along with its structural flaws; and to inoculate the unsuspecting public against the torrent of misinformation, defamation, and general nonsense that issues forth from one of the world's most frequently visited websites, the "encyclopedia that anyone can edit.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"We exist to shine the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia and its related projects; to examine the corruption there, along with its structural flaws; and to inoculate the unsuspecting public against the torrent of misinformation, defamation, and general nonsense that issues forth from one of the world's most frequently visited websites, the "encyclopedia that anyone can edit.""</div>

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Martha Hickson on 24 Mar 15

"We exist to shine the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia and its related projects; to examine the corruption there, along with its structural flaws; and to inoculate the unsuspecting public against the torrent of misinformation, defamation, and general nonsense that issues forth from one of the world's most frequently visited websites, the "encyclopedia that anyone can edit.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"We exist to shine the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia and its related projects; to examine the corruption there, along with its structural flaws; and to inoculate the unsuspecting public against the torrent of misinformation, defamation, and general nonsense that issues forth from one of the world's most frequently visited websites, the "encyclopedia that anyone can edit.""</div>

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A dark day for the future of books - CNN.com - 34 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 16 Apr 12 - No Cached

There's Dark Things In Them There Books! « A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy - 1 views

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shared by Marita Thomson on 05 Jun 11 - No Cached

Marita Thomson on 05 Jun 11

Rebuttal of a reactionary article in the Wall Street Journal about modern teen literature.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Rebuttal of a reactionary article in the Wall Street Journal about modern teen literature.</div>

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Text to Text | 'The Giver' and 'The Dark Side of Young Adult Fiction' - 15 views

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shared by Carla Shinn on 19 Sep 14 - No Cached

Carla Shinn on 19 Sep 14

" 'The Giver,' a powerful and provocative novel, is sure to keep older children reading. And thinking." That's what The Times's book critic said about "The Giver" when the novel was first published in 1993. Today it is one of the most taught (and most challenged) books in middle schools, and a movie version has just opened.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">" 'The Giver,' a powerful and provocative novel, is sure to keep older children reading. And thinking." That's what The Times's book critic said about "The Giver" when the novel was first published in 1993. Today it is one of the most taught (and most challenged) books in middle schools, and a movie version has just opened.</div>

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The Dark Side - Darth Vader - Fixed Mindset - 20 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 26 Jul 15 - No Cached

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories - 0 views

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shared by beth gourley on 15 Apr 08 - Cached

The man shrugged and replied, �In a year, the king may die. In a year, I may die. In a year, the horse may talk!�
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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connects the information people and the story people
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May 15, 1924 issue of Library Journal, Helen E. Haines wrote about contemporary fiction
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It offers constant problems and perplexities
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strong role in domesticating
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Booklist, Bill Ott, likes to say that librarians are divided into information people and story people
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Librarians, historically, have been at the place where new formats and new technologies happen to people in their daily lives.
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Plato was concerned that the new-fangled idea of writing stuff down would dilute scholarship and make men lazy
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even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness and nobility taught and communicated orally
- beth gourley on 15 Apr 08
  
  I thought perhaps she would extend the You-Tube example back to the oral and getting away from the written word
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I thought perhaps she would extend the You-Tube example back to the oral and getting away from the written word</div>
  
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change is our only certainty
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argued between those who consider all fiction foul or useless and those who see no harm in it at all
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Jamie Larue, director of the Douglas Public Library in Castle Rock, Colorado, calls librarians �the keepers of the books, the answerers of questions, and the tellers of tales.
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Our job is to keep ideas and make them available.
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Le Guin's words remind me of is how important it is to keep ideas that we do not comprehend, or believe in, or agree with; to keep them safe, and to keep them available. If librarians don't do this, who will? There is no other profession enjoined to preserve and disseminate all the truths of humankind that is our job.
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also need to remember that some ideas thought worthless today may turn out to be the bedrock of tomorrow's truths
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available not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas and silly ideas and yes, even dangerous and wicked ideas.
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librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas
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readers need to have available to them truth in all its myriad guises, light and dark, easy and difficult
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core values of librarianship are access and service
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always like to mention a few books that I think my audiences would enjoy
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Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky.
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Ann Bausum's With Courage and Cloth
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Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel
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nformation person and a story person
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Technology is our campfire. Change is what happens:
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beth gourley on 15 Apr 08

©2007 GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido MLS

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">©2007 GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido MLS</div>

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