I wonder if some “elder” librarians are just trying to get some blog attention by ignorantly insulting us, their supposed colleagues (and embarrassing themselves in the process).
Well, I’m not going to do Cronin the favor by linking to his drivel….Oh what the heck. Let the festivities and librarian-bashing begin (or should I say continue). (link via Tame the Web)
YouReadMe looks interesting:
“We’re lazy. There are just too many blogs out there. No mortal can read them all. And let’s face it, only a handful of the millions of blog posts each day are really worth reading.”
“So we created YouReadMe and let the computer do the reading for us. It reads tens of thousands of blogs multiple times throughout the day and finds the really important posts: the ones linked to the most by other bloggers. Now we can read the ‘hot’ posts, see what people are saying about them, and have a much more complete view of what’s going on in the blogosphere.”
They have database driven pages for every blog that they monitor. Here’s mine. They also do this for every post. Wow! (link via del.icio.us)
I think online newspapers are starting to get this RSS thing (They will undoubtedly need them to survive, IMO). Word today from ITLnet Blog that NewsOK has a bunch of feeds.
I thought that there was medication available for Information Anxiety. 
I’m not linking to it because it’s a spam blog, but here’s the URL:
http://recnews.blogspot.com/2005/04/anxiety-information-anxiety.html
Note: I’m making a joke here. Anxiety disorders, however, are not a joke. I, and millions of others, suffer from anxiety and have to deal with it daily.
Donna Pletcher sent in an e-mail describing, in detail, a neat feature of her library OPAC at the Bedford Public Library System. First, click on “search”:
“At the bottom, try out some of the new item links.”
“This is done by putting a 695 field in the MARC record with a specially created subject heading. We’ve worked out a macro such that there is virtually no data entry involved for the cataloger. It’s very simple on their end.”
“The rest is done using the Pac Config module in HTML. You can look at the source on the search page and see where I’ve copied in the search URL for each new item link.”
“I worked on this in February, brought it out in March and the staff love it. Patrons discovered it quickly and place holds on anything available, especially in fiction. I’d like to also create a link for award winners and maybe staff picks. People tell me they check it regularly looking for what’s new and available.”
Thanks Donna. If you would like to show off some neat features from your online catalog, send it my way.
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