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A flexible library service for the 21st century?
Following Alan’s piece on libraries, I picked this ‘advertorial’ from Google plus this evening… about how a US county library system is cutting costs and improving flexibility in their free at the point of delivery services by enabling the whole library service act as a functioning unit as opposed to the one discrete library… read our review » -
The lost art of reading (or drowning in too much information)…
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] read our review »
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…if University education were universally available and availed of, the country would collapse in one generation
The words of Brian O’Nolan, variously Brian Ó Nualláin, Myles na gCopaleen, Myles na Gopaleen and, of course, Flann O’Brien. That O’Nolan was referencing his own dissolute student days at UCD only mildly distracts from the prophetic undertone of his words: I paid no attention whatsoever to books or study and regarded lectures as a [...] read our review »
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Comment on Perhaps politicians should check their own houses are in order before attacking the church?
on 8 May 2012 at 8:48 pm
Politicians on both sides of the border run administrations with responsability for education. It is within their power to reduce church control of any schools….Will they act? I doubt it
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Comment on “Such arrangements are commonplace in cross-border rail operations across Europe.”
on 17 April 2012 at 8:32 pm
This is a mischievious story with no real import. Are we seriously to expect every organisation to run competitions etc on both sides of the border? For a start there are different regulatory rules surrounding these competitions in each jurisdiction. This is a divisive and non-sensical non-story.
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Comment on “in order to ensure the safety of the community and the officers responding…”
on 9 April 2012 at 9:13 pm
We can only hope that the police response (or lack of it) was for genuinely ‘security’ reasons and not a diversion to hide the fact that they have not sufficient resources. The public need to know whats going on..
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Comment on Robinson is the key thinker in Northern Irish Unionism, but guided by what ambition?
on 3 April 2012 at 8:45 pm
PR has the sharpest strategic and tactical brain in NI politics. His motivation is however much harder to read. Difficulties in his personal life and working with nationalist/republicans may have mellowed him. Its very hard to know what he is really like as a person and difficult to judge his motivation. Supremacy for the DUP or a new vision of settled, softer unionism?
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Comment on NI Tories: “You have to wonder on which planet the new UUP leader is living”
on 2 April 2012 at 8:55 pm
The media always have a problem with how to handle ‘one of their own’ moving into politics and understandably so. Its only when the novelty dies down that we will be able to really judge this. Nesbitt has clearly made an impact with UUP members but will he be able to make a similar impact on the broader unionist electorate? Still too early to say
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Comment on Nesbitt’s task is to discover a real purpose for the UUP. But will they let him?
on 1 April 2012 at 9:47 pm
You know not many MLAs or MPs really live like the common people… except of course SF who just take a ‘working wage’.
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Comment on Nesbitt’s task is to discover a real purpose for the UUP. But will they let him?
on 1 April 2012 at 9:09 pm
Nesbitt certainly has to answer the charge of being ‘policy lite’ as that is what the focus is on. His leadership is only just over 1 day old so its a bit early to make judgement. Much will depend on the developments in the next few weeks.
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Comment on And into the last bend of the UUP leadership race: Who will win?
on 31 March 2012 at 12:41 pm
Nesbitt
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Comment on And into the last bend of the UUP leadership race: Who will win?
on 30 March 2012 at 9:04 pm
Seems that some DUP strategists pushing for a Nesbitt win. Just for fun a prediction.
Nesbitt 55%
McCallister 45%
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Comment on The Attorney General of Northern Ireland “accordingly considers it appropriate that the author and publisher of ‘Outside In’ should be punished for contempt of court”
on 27 March 2012 at 4:49 pm
Unbelievable. Some of these legal characters need to grow up and get a life. So obvious that they do not live in the real world. Its this kind of arrogance that gets their profession/trade a bad name.
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