Library Babel Fish

Reading turns up so many new year’s resolutions. Why is that?

Everybody knows that a large percentage of our books never leave the shelf. Or do we?

I get a lot out of connecting with a group of librarians loosely joined together under the #critlib hashtag. Here's why.

Our political climate gone from truthiness to outright denial of facts - without penalty. What's going on?

We have less funding for the things that really matter while paying much more to compensate for austerity policies.

What is encryption and why are those government officials saying it's so dangerous?

If an editorial board abandons a journal, is it still the journal it was, or is it a zombie journal?

Reading about drone warfare in The Intercept makes me think about how much Silicon Valley assumptions about human behavior have shaped our world.