I’ve been puzzling over a phenomenon lately that I’d like to talk a bit about. I want to put this out into the ether and get feedback from all of you. Because I can’t make sense of this—and perhaps y...
May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month. And, as I’ve done in the past, I am using my blog as a place to help raise awareness about this genetic condition. Why? Because, lucky girl that I...
In the early days of being a librarian, I remember when The Urban Dictionary website launched. I remember some people in my literary and library circles talking about how it was a useless, crappy, su...
In case you missed the buzz on Twitter and elsewhere, I have a new job! Starting officially on May 1st, I will be the Director for the San Rafael Public Library! I’ve worked as the Assistant Di...
In December, Ryan Claringbole and I wrote a post about his library’s (the Chesapeake Public Library’s) sub-standard selection catalog from OverDrive: “OverDrive Has Different eBook ...
With yet another publisher announcing today that it’s dropping out of the library eBook market, I decided to put up a new sign in our library in a few different spots to raise public awareness....
Last night I was honored and privileged to attend the official White House State of the Union Tweet-Up. To read more about how that happened, see Part 1. I am so thankful to @ks44, @macon44, and @bri...
I am writing from Washington D.C. where I just toured the White House and met with the U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, and tonight will be live-Tweeting the State of the Union from next ...
The SOPA and PROTECT IP bills scare the heck out of me. They have the potential to allow entertainment companies to decide what information is okay to share and what information is not, which sites ...
Send your own questions to me at librarianinblack@gmail.com, @TheLiB, or +Sarah Houghton. Transcription Hi! Welcome to episode 7 of What Sarah Said. This question comes to us from Aaron and he write...
Send your own questions to me at librarianinblack@gmail.com, @TheLiB, or +Sarah Houghton. Transcription Welcome to episode 6 of What Sarah Said. Today’s question comes to us from Linda and she...
Send your own questions to me at librarianinblack@gmail.com, @TheLiB, or +Sarah Houghton. Transcription Welcome to episode 5 of What Sarah Said, I’m Sarah Houghton. And today’s question comes from A...
Send your own questions to me at librarianinblack@gmail.com, @TheLiB, or +Sarah Houghton. Transcription Welcome to episode 4 of What Sarah Said, a podcast where I, Sarah Houghton, will answer your qu...
Send your own questions to me at librarianinblack@gmail.com, @TheLiB, or +Sarah Houghton. Transcription Welcome to episode 3 of What Sarah Said. Today’s question comes from J.R., and J.R. is ...
Send your own questions to me at librarianinblack@gmail.com, @TheLiB, or +Sarah Houghton. Transcription Welcome to episode 2 of What Sarah Said, the podcast where I, Sarah Houghton, will answer your...
It’s the year in review! Below are my favorites from 2011, just because: • Book – Public Parts by Jeff Jarvis • Movie – Melancholia • Band – Austra • Song – “Need You Now” by Cut Copy • Serious Techn...
Introducing the first episode of What Sarah Said, my new videocast/podcast/video-thingi e where I answer your questions about libraries, technology, privacy, intellectual freedom, etc. One episode, o...
I’m getting ready to record some “What Sarah Said” videos, but if you just crave your daily dose of Sarah’s voice and face* before then, try these two on for size: Interview o...
I’m going to start a new feature on this site, an “ask Sarah anything” offer of sorts. I’m calling it “What Sarah Said” (stealing the title from that soul-crushing...
***Update 12/12/11: Overdrive has posted a response outlining the limitations of availability of certain titles to certain libraries, as well as differing terms of use for certain publishers or title...
This is the fourth post in my new Sarah’s Gadget Showcase series. #1: Audio Gadgets, #2: Cooking Gadgets, and #3: Reading Gadgets are also available. ______________________________ ___________________...
I’ve appeared on three notable shows recently that I wanted to plug and mention because they’re great shows. So check out the other non-Sarah episodes–they’re stellar! Good ...
I’m excited to be teaching a set of two 90-minute workshops for ALA TechSource in December about eBooks. The title is E-Books and Access: Upholding Library Values, held the 7th and 14th of Dec...
It’s Halloween, so I’m going to post about something that’s scary. Harassment and stalking. This post is stimulated by a recent event, at a recent speaking engagement, where I deal...
Below are my 3 slide decks from Internet Librarian 2011. Some of the slides formatted a little weird upon upload, but I have a severe cold and am too tired to try to fix it. Sorry. Digital c...
Internet Librarian 2011: Designing for Optimal UX Nate Hill and Chris Noll Libraries are moving from the consumption of knowledge to the creation of knowledge. There is no publicly funded institutio...
Internet Librarian 2011: Community Embraces Online 11:1 Denise Siers, Melissa Falgout, and David Wasserman Denise Siers gave us an overview of the King County Library System: a large system serving m...
Internet Librarian 2011: Ebooks & the Future of Publishing, Lending, Learning David Bowers and Stephen Abram David Bowers is from Oxford University Press. Libraries are still a place that people...
Below is my 10 minute rant about why the Kindle format lending from Overdrive is anti-user, anti-intellectual freedom, anti-library, and something that all librarians should be aware of and disturbed...
Internet Librarian 2011: Keynote – Lee Raine (Pew Internet and American Life Project) Raine started with a LOLcat (yep, he knows his crowd). Pew, pew, pew! Raine says that the Oxford English Dictio...
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