Who Gets To Control The Future Of Libraries?

The following was my email response to a thread on the web4lib mail list:
Okay, it must be said: you’re all wrong[1].
I can understand that news of a librarian being fired/furloughed will raise our defenses, but that’s no excuse for giving up the considered and critical thinking that this occasion demands.
Consider this: the principle’s blog reveals [...]

Linkrot? We Don’t Have Any Steenking Linkrot!

Allen asked, via the web4lib list:
I’m interested in how others handle linkrot in library blogs. Do you fix broken links? Remove them if they can’t be fixed? Do nothing?
Michael answered:
I deal with link rot on blogs as I would with any other publication, print or otherwise: do nothing. The post is dated and users [...]