Excellent story in today’s Guardian outlining the latest exhibition of Vatican treasures. There’s not access yet to the records during the Nazi era, and you sure won’t find mention of the more recent child-abuse scandals and cover-up but this is …

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I enjoyed the article by Robert Berring in the current issue of Law Library Journal wherein he examines the impact of technology on law libraries though it is more a meditation on the future of librarianship. His analysis builds on …

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Geoffrey Nunberg is giving the keynote at the iConf 2012 conference in Toronto and is offering a superb historical and linguistic overview of the term ‘information’.  Who knew that the data-information-wisdom progression was such an old saw, to use his …

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A campaign organized under The Cost of Knowledge banner has thousands of scholars agreeing to boycott Elsevier publications by refusing to submit or to review articles for any of their journals. Since Jan 21, when Tim Gowers at Cambridge University …

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