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Dear Facebook: Leave Me Alone

By Iris | Published: Thursday, December 10th, 2009
My friends know that I have a complicated relationship with Facebook. Simply put: I hate it, but I can’t leave. The interface never made sense to me, the multiple audiences made participation hard for me, the quizzes cluttered everything up, college friends flaunted their perfect lives in my face (without meaning to, but it still [...]
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Report from SirsiDynix on Open Source ILS Platforms Leaked… Oops

By Iris | Published: Friday, October 30th, 2009
Stephen Abram has lived a bit of a charmed life. He’s somehow managed to be the Vendor That Everyone Kind Of Thinks Has Our Best Interests At Heart Even If He Is A Vendor. Meanwhile, he’s also headed up the Special Library Association. Meanwhile, he’s also been a sought-after voice in the library community. And [...]
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LSW got BoingBoinged!

By Iris | Published: Monday, August 10th, 2009
This is just too cool for words. The LSW’s project to raise money for the Louisville Free Public Library just got picked up by BoingBoing! Like Unlike
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LSW Raising Money for the Louisville Free Public Library

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Yesterday, rain descended on Louisville in a big way, and one of the places hit especially hard was the main public library. I watched Twitter posts and pictures roll in from my friend and fellow LSW member Greg Schwartz and couldn’t believe my eyes. They’re estimating $1 million in damage right now (books, servers, computers, [...]
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Just When I Thought Life Needed a Little Spicing Up…

By Iris | Published: Thursday, May 7th, 2009
… Elsevier delivered for me. Ah, the sweet smell of fraud in the evening. Tuesday, I heard that they’d (oops) published a fake journal under a fake imprint. Now they’ve admitted it, but not before the LSW had sunk its teeth in and decided that the upcoming zine could be hilariously renamed The Australasian Journal [...]
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