The Surly Librarian

Facebook allows you to report suspicious stories you see in your news feed, but you can also reach out directly to whoever posted the li...

As an un-looked for sequel to the previous post, " What if I don't want Facebook to decide what I see & which friends I hear f...

Facebook's News Feed uses algorithms to choose which stories we see and in what order, based on who posted them, who among our "f...

The subtitle for this blog is not a joke.   I'm one whose temperament is most suited to solitary intellectual and creative pursuits, or...

Quoted in full from Library Hotline , Volume 44, No. 28, July 20, 2015  The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) wants to know, “What’...

Since January I've adopted what for me is a new approach to finding new books by authors I don't already know. I browse the New Boo...

Another master has crossed over. And so it is. Bless è d be, Michael Bright Crow Here is a post I first published about Terry Pratch...