Monthly Archives: September 2009

Friday NASA released its crew assignment for the last scheduled space shuttle mission.  The twelfth Chief of the Astronaut Office Steven Lindsey will be leading the crew of six astronauts on the Space Shuttle Discovery piloted by Eric Boe for … Continue reading →

This week Newsweek is has a piece on community colleges that they are running in light of the $12 billion investment in federal money the President pledged towards them back in July.  Much like libraries, community colleges are a very … Continue reading →

Structured systems aren’t very different even when they occur in very different situations.  A recent story on Slashdot about approaching healthcare bill HR 3200 from a system design perspective like you’d find in computer science or information technology.  It is … Continue reading →

The contemporary library is in the middle of a transformation. With efforts to embrace new forms of media pushing to redefine the role of the library in the community, it is still too soon to declare the traditional library dead … Continue reading →