In this editorial, I will be using the word hospitality to mean the intentional welcome of others into a space which one currently occupies, possibly as a member of a dominant group. I do not wish to encourage the idea that one should cultivate or …
For this issue, we asked readers responding to our recent pieces about technology, programming, and self-directed learning to tell us: should we expect LIS professionals to learn how to code? Answers came long, short, and even in haiku form. Enjoy!
Those of us in libraries like to trace our history to Alexandria or to the French governmental system of record-keeping, but the construction of the modern GLAM world is far more recent, almost as new as coding. It has evolved almost as rapidly. And …