Our Duty to Protect!

This past week many of us met a Utah nurse for the first time. Alex Wubbels works at the burn unit of the University of Utah Hospital. On July 26 Wubbels was handcuffed and detained by a Salt Lake City police detective after she refused to draw an unconscious patient's blood on the grounds that … Continue reading Our Duty to Protect!

The Changing Library

One of the things which has always frustrated me about libraries has been their formality. This is most easily identified in the typical image of the librarian. A mousy woman in a cardigan with a sour expression "shushing" library patrons. Forget that this woman easily surfed the complexities of huge reference collections and was conversant … Continue reading The Changing Library