Category Archives: School/Work

Here is the best email I got last week: From: xxx@grad.washington.edu Subject: Master’s degree  approved by Grad School Congratulations Gabor Por, your request to graduate with a MASTER OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE has been reviewed by the Graduate School … Continue reading →

I got my grades today for the last quarter of my Masters program. It includes a 3.9, a 4.0 and a credit for a credit/no credit class. This makes my GPA for the whole program 3.83. See the detailed list … Continue reading →

I came across a short video clip from a TV station evening news, featuring Judith Krug of the Freedom to Read Foundation. The short snippet was talking about what’s wrong with book banning. The TV journalist covering the evening posted … Continue reading →

As I learned from the Shifted Librarian blog the “2007 ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium” will include a session on ” What IF: Gaming, Intellectual Freedom and the Law.” I am not a gamer myself, but find the … Continue reading →

A book that was met with some protest in the US is most likely will have a much calmer reception in the UK according to the Guardian. As I wrote earlier, “And Tango Makes Three” is a children book depicting … Continue reading →

I came across this (2 year) old blog entry, but found it interesting. It quotes extensively from (and adds some minor comments to) an article from Moment Magazine. The piece in question is about an orthodox rabbi Natan (or Nosson) … Continue reading →

Here is a twist in banning books, at least if you come (as I do) from a western perspective. The International Herald Tribune reported that in Hong Kong a Chinese student newspaper got labeled indecent, because it contained a sex … Continue reading →

This article from next month’s Popular Photography describes the murky legal ground about photographs getting developed and reported to the authorities because it may depict some sort of crime according to the judgment of the person who developed them. Most … Continue reading →