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Tanvir

@TanvirToGo

Your friendly neighborhood library guy.

 The Netherlands
Joined May 2010
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In Praise of the Little Free Library linkedin.com/pulse/praise-li…
How to spot fake news. Most important tip: check your biases.
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"The cause of our demise will be error, not terror." Baroness Manningham-Buller, former Director of MI5, during the 2010 BBC Reith Lectures
"It was time to move to a digital library." latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m…
"Bias is ok, as long as you don't try to hide it." -- Edward R Murrow.
"I've always thought of libraries as places full of tools. Books are tools, scrolls are tools, computers are tools." npr.org/sections/alltechcons…
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"The future is already here - it's just not very evenly distributed." William Gibson
@fletch_aj @DoctorChristian @JoannaLumley what about cd / dvds, meeting spaces, game rooms, free wifi (not everyone can afford a cafe)
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Great @circideas podcast featuring a very engaging @bfister talking about open access and those crazy scholarly publishing profit margins.
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Who knew that the real reason database interfaces are so horrible is that they’re meant to discourage use?
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It's not about information scarcity anymore, it's about attention scarcity. Great point, @rdlankes. #newlib
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BBC Radio 4 quote of the day, about books vs. ebooks: "You can't crush a cockroach with an iPad."
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