There is only two days left to let the CRTC know what you think about Big Media in Canada……..

Anyone familiar with UofT’s flagship humanities and social sciences Robart’s library knows that it’s the target of a lot of well earned potshots. Here are a few of its better known claims to fame:

is it sinking?
‘Brutalist’ architecture
it’s a peacock … !?

The ‘prison’ analogy is another fave, what with the books cloistered into […]

Here’s a quick redirect to a Library Juice post with a couple of nice resources.

First is this guide for collecting from diverse sources.
(or: outsourcing, how not to)

Fostering Media Diversity in Libraries: Strategies and Actions.

Second there’s a link to a note on the ALA’s opposition to media concentration in […]

Well, I hate to add a post above PC’s great follow-up piece on FOSS, but anyone who wants to “talk turkey” in a post doesn’t get to stay at the top of the blog roll for long.

Some wonderful stuff is going down on the MediaReform website that was set up last month by […]

(Thanks to Kerry M. for the tip!)

- JH

The fabulous public broadcast station Television Ontario | TVO posts podcasts to, among other great shows, the lecture series Big Ideas. (And they’re available via RSS feed, MP3 file or iTunes).

Dr. Darin Barney, McGill professor of communication studies and Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship, speaks via the UofT […]

Probably the first time I ever listened to radio on the internet it was on SomaFM’s drone stream. I remember thinking that this was something else and it was pretty exciting. Unfortunately, this excitement is likely to be contained, as has been previously posted on LA.

So today, I went to see how Soma was […]

May we turn from the usual U.S. bad guys (the Federal Communications Commission) and take a look at the Postal Regulatory Commission for a moment? They’re responsible for setting postage rates in the United States and they’re into some bad stuff. In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, Katrina Vanden Heuvel says […]

Here at LA we’ve made the odd mention of the value of new and accessible audio materials, and how they support patrons needing alternatives to print materials. Shannon LaBelle, a MLIS student at SLAIS, UBC put together a fantastic presentation on the complete history of audio books in Canada.

Have a look …
Audio […]

Chip Ward’s illuminating article on how the library has become a de facto ’shelter’ in place of the state’s shrunken safety net provides an excellent opportunity to look at how ppl who are often perceived as non-citizens, non-persons, non-existant nuisances in the collective conscience are reclaiming their power and identities.

Here are some props to […]