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Save The Internet, Mark Y. Herring
Save The Internet, Mark Y. Herring
Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications
With rare exception, nothing has galvanized activists and those of us in libraries more these days than net neutrality. It’s also “a thing” with just about everyone else. If you “google” the phrase, the first two or three trillion hits that come up are in favor of the status quo and against the current Federal Communications Commission’s chairman, Ajit Pai, and the FCC’s plans to scuttle the Obama-era rules on net neutrality: no blocking, no throttling, and no paid prioritization.
A Life Now Lived, Mark Y. Herring
A Life Now Lived, Mark Y. Herring
Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications
We leave behind our work, whether noble or not, whether known or unknown; we leave it for others to pick up and make it better. It has been, especially for librarians, a “follow[ing] of knowledge like a sinking star” that Ulysses later remarks upon. I love that line because it so expresses what it is to see knowledge so close, so clearly, and yet always to be grasping after it, reaching for it as it fades over the horizon of our youth.
Patrons, Patron Saints, And Pew, Mark Y. Herring
Patrons, Patron Saints, And Pew, Mark Y. Herring
Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications
Those of us who work these intellectual mines fill our buildings with the good, the bad, and the ugly of human endeavor, preserving all that chronicles everything that is right about us, and all that may well be wrong with us. If ever libraries were more torn between two lovers, as it were, it is now, when we are pressed on every side to be all things to all kinds of people. The question is, will it ever be enough? Will we be found wanting by the very patrons we seek to serve?
Shifting Sands, Mark Y. Herring
Shifting Sands, Mark Y. Herring
Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications
Those libraries that make ... changes wisely and well will flourish. Having the will to make them even with retirement in the rearview mirror is one more opportunity for librarians to prove their value once again.