Big Unanswered End-of-Year Questions

By Barbara Fister. I thought I’d look back at a year’s worth of Babel Fishing to see what was on my mind in 2014. Privacy. Net neutrality. What libraries mean as social institutions. Where social justice fits into what we do and what happens when we forget that it should. How and why librarians and scholars should reorganize our work and resources so that knowledge is open to all. How to help undergraduate students learn to navigate that record of knowledge so that they can make their own. Read more...