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The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn’t restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.

Archive for October, 2007

Do schools kill creativity?

swissmiss: Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. With ample anecdotes and witty asides, Robinson points out the many ways our schools fail to recognize — much less cultivate — the talents of [...]

Teaching users to resize text with browser controls

Accessify: latest news / Teach a Man to Fish (or How to Resize Text)

It got me thinking, maybe it would be best to show the user how to change the font size rather than simply describe it. With that in mind, I put together some video clips, joined them together in iMovie and did [...]

Dan Rather vs. CBS, and the truth about George W. Bush

Dan Rather vs. CBS, and the truth about George W. Bush | Salon.com

His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush’s National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
On Sept. 20, the day after he filed his suit, Rather said, “The story was true.” Rather’s suit may turn [...]

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