Library Babel Fish

I've started a list of tacit knowledge many of us have about information based on experiences that our students haven’t had.

All libraries face a certain amount of conflict over weeding. But weeding is just one aspect of a broader struggle over books.

Whenever I hear some official reassure us that “ordinary Americans have nothing to fear,” I start to worry.

Open access publishing has been gaining ground. I thought it would be instructive to talk to Doug Eyman, editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, & Pedagogy - which has been exploring the potential of open access web-based publishing since 1996.

I have never taken to calling people who use libraries “customers.”

Let's end the tyranny of the impact factor.

Aaron McCullough and Meredith Kahn answer questions about an innovative new imprint at Michigan Publishing.

The Supreme Court’s ruling last week that states can limit Freedom of Information Act requests to residents of those states is troubling.