"This documentary on Texting and Driving is haunting. It focuses on four accidents, some of them fatal, and Herzog aims his camera squarely at the faces of both victims and perpetrators, asking them to describe in detail what happened and the aftermath. Herzog emphasizes the change in civilization he perceives in part by examining an accident in which an Amish family was killed and another in which a horse-shoer's truck was involved."
For Senior Students.
May 15, 1924 issue of Library Journal, Helen E. Haines wrote about contemporary fiction
It offers constant problems and perplexities
strong role in domesticating
Booklist, Bill Ott, likes to say that librarians are divided into information people and story people
Librarians, historically, have been at the place where new formats and new technologies happen to people in their daily lives.
Plato was concerned that the new-fangled idea of writing stuff down would dilute scholarship and make men lazy
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
I thought perhaps she would extend the You-Tube example back to the oral and getting away from the written word
change is our only certainty
argued between those who consider all fiction foul or useless and those who see no harm in it at all
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.
Our job is to keep ideas and make them available.
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.
also need to remember that some ideas thought worthless today may turn out to be the bedrock of tomorrow's truths
available not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas and silly ideas and yes, even dangerous and wicked ideas.
librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas
readers need to have available to them truth in all its myriad guises, light and dark, easy and difficult
core values of librarianship are access and service
always like to mention a few books that I think my audiences would enjoy
Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky.
Ann Bausum's With Courage and Cloth
Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel
nformation person and a story person
Technology is our campfire. Change is what happens: