Posted in interviews on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
This month I talked to Alvin Schrader, current CLA president and professor who teaches and writes a lot about intellectual freedom. I’ve enjoyed his issues based Feliciter editorials more than the usual “as the president I went here and did this”type diary entries. This issue he writes about the Canadian Journalists for [...]
Posted in filtering, interviews, school libraries on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
In one of the core classes in library school we had field trips to different types of libraries (public, academic, school, legal, special, etc). I had the pleasure of visiting Sylvia’s school library and was inspired by how alive the library felt and the creative projects that the students were doing. On National [...]
Posted in interviews, people on November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I first met Toni at a talk she gave for the Vancouver Public Library Board. Her official bio is here, with all of her publications and professional and volunteer activities listed. She’s really busy and also chairs the Canadian Library Association’s Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom.
Toni’s political take on librarianship and information [...]
Posted in interviews on October 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Hopefully this week I’ll be able to complete my first interview with an intellectual freedom activist and writer who I admire a whole lot. I sorta pinched the idea from Jerimiah’s idea to do oral histories of folks who are/have been active with the Information Policy committee and my friend Krisztina, who did a bunch [...]
