Archive for May, 2006
LibraryThing and Abebooks
May 17th, 2006Congrats to Tim Spalding on the Abebooks deal. Huzzahhhhhhhhh!
The “M” Word
May 17th, 2006The Centered Librarian blogs about a new library marketing blog. We need more of these! I do a lot of WOM marketing for PubSub and I plan to learn alot from this one.
The “M” Word, from Nancy Dowd:
“I’ve started this blog because as a marketer for the NJ State Library, I am always [...]
Medlibrarian.net
May 15th, 2006Mary Carmen Chimato and Darren Chase, librarians working at the Health Sciences Library at Stony Brook University (my alma mater and a mere 10 minutes from my house) have started a blog. Very cool!
Gary Price
May 15th, 2006
Gary Price
Originally uploaded by ASIS&T@Simmons.
For some reason, I love this picture of my good friend Gary Price. It’s been a while since I last mentioned his name on here so…
well…
Gary Price!
Update - Blake wants to play “caption this picture” in the comments. A couple of funny [...]
PiscesLibrariana
May 15th, 2006New to me blog called PiscesLibrariana:
“experiments in the digital representation of one librarians professional development”
Lovely Lovely Lovely
May 15th, 2006Check out what Dave Winer is working on:
“The next development project is a connection between NewsRiver and the Share Your OPML community server. I’ve written code that allows you to set up NewsRiver to automatically ping SYO when your subscriptions change”
This is exactly how I want the Community Lists to run. The editor has [...]
Thing-ology
May 14th, 2006Tim and Abby over at Library Thing have gone live with a new blog, called Thing-ology:
“The main LibraryThing blog will continue to focus on features and announcements and exciting new things like that, and over here we’ll get to go deeper into some of the bigger and more theoretical issues that LibraryThing raises.”
“So. This is [...]
Blog about Libraries
May 14th, 2006Here’s an interesting new blog that I just came across. Blog about Libraries:
“Having read blogs about libraries for some time, I am tired of just making comments and have decided it’s time to be a poster.”
Tagground
May 14th, 2006This is pretty slick. Tagground allows you to plop in a URL and you can see how it has been tagged by a few tagging services (they’re working on getting it to work in others). You can also find out which URLs have been tagged with certain keywords (not as fun, but still [...]
Technology, Books and the Librarian
May 14th, 2006Michael McGrorty is, hands down, one of my top 5 favorite librarian writers. Take a look at his latest blog post:
“What will remain, no matter what, is that the library will be a repository of literatures, of recorded culture, in many forms, a universal archive and an instant link to the new and [...]
What’s That URL?
May 14th, 2006Emily Alling on Web Evaluatiion Hijinks:
“[W]hile watching Lost this week, I caught the Hanso Foundation ad that was slipped in among the actual paid advertisements, noticed that they gave a URL, and wondered whether any librarians would be showing that site off in the weeks to come.”
Alt Ref
May 12th, 2006Man! How did I miss Alt Ref?
“Traditional reference service is dead— or dying. This blog will focus on new approaches toward providing library assistance to patrons… or whatever else I feel like rambling on about.”
This should be an interesting and fun blog to read. I’m not of the notion that traditional reference [...]
Quotes from May 12th, 2006
May 12th, 2006Well, some are from the past month…
Mike Yamamoto on the decision against the .xxx domain: “No matter what the technology is called or how it’s designed, pornography will always find its way to unauthorized computer screens.”
Tris Hussey on IM: “I absolutely could not, would not (not even in a tree or a plane or a [...]
Library Boot Camp Singalong
May 12th, 2006Stephen Abram linked to an absolutely hilarious song about Library Boot camp by Peter Bromberg. Listen to it here [mp3]. The reason I missed it in my PubSub “egoscription” is that I never thought to include my name in the query as a verb (Stephen Cohened). My favorite line:
“Read 43 things, and [...]
Lansing Read Posters
May 11th, 2006
Police Chief McDevitt
Originally uploaded by lansinglibrary.
Check out the READ posters that Lansing Public Library has added to their Flickr account. The models are people who work and live in the Lansing community. What a perfect way for libraries to build community while making the library the [...]
Quotes from May 11th, 2006
May 11th, 2006+ Alice Maggio, on only buying books from independent booksellers: “Starting now, I am putting my money where my mouth is. If I say I care about local, independent businesses, then I should support them. Not just sometimes, but every time.”
+ Danah Boyd on a legislation proposal [PDF] which would ammend the Communications Act of [...]
Network Weaving
May 10th, 2006I just posted on network weaving over at the Libraries Build Communities. Take a look and comment if you wish.
Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital
May 10th, 2006I’m not sure how I missed the publication of this book, by Ronald S. Burt. From the description:
“Brokerage is the activity of people who live at the intersecting of social worlds, who have a vision advantage of seeing and developing good ideas, an advantage which can be seen in their compensation, recognition and the [...]
HTML 2 PDF
May 10th, 2006I’m not looking for these PDF tools. I think my aggie is trying to tell me something. This one will take any site and create a PDF of it. It’s really amazing (hey, I’m easily impressed). Take a look at my blog in PDF. Pretty neat, eh?
SirsiDynix Upstream - Building Communities
May 8th, 2006I think this was supposed to go out a bit earlier, but SirsiDynix has published the latest issue of Upstream. I’m excited about this one because I helped pick the theme and suggested a few librarians to send the question. The issue deals with examples of community building.
You can download your copy here. [...]
iPod in Education
May 7th, 2006The site hasn’t been updated in over a month, but iPod in Education could be a very useful tool for those interested. Lots of new articles linked to on there, including this one about podcasts at the University of Wales.
Why I Love the Carnival
May 7th, 2006One of my upcoming columns for Public Libraries magazine is on the Carnival of the Infosciences (Thanks Greg Schwartz for the interview). One of the reasons why I love the Carnival (and I expressed this in the column) it that it provides an opportunity for librarians who want to get their views and links [...]
ExpressPDF
May 7th, 2006
05072006ExpressPDF
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
ExpressPDF is one of those tools that you need if you can’t churn out PDFs very easily (like me). It can turn Web pages, Word docs, and Excel docs into PDF within minutes. Plus, it’s very easy to use. Upload the file, [...]
Denver Public Library Jumps on RSS Wagon
May 6th, 2006Michael Sauers points out that DPL has incorporated RSS Feeds into their services. They’ve got some interesting ones:
+ Current Job Openings
+ Latest DPL News
+ DPL Newsletters
+ Staff Recommendations
+ New and Updated Web Content
Very interesting. I [heart] the staff recommendations feed, event though there is not much in there yet. Lovely!
Use Your Mac to Track Checked Out Books
May 6th, 2006Jenny Levine tagged Library Books the other day:
“Library Books is an Mac OS X application that tracks the library books you have borrowed. Library Books connects to your library catalogue and downloads the list of books you have checked out. It displays the books in your menu bar.”
“Library Books can automatically add entries to iCal [...]
Canadian Parliament RSS Feeds
May 6th, 2006Michel-Adrien Sheppard picks up on the RSS Feeds provided by the Canadian Parliament. While not new (PubSub has been picking up on these feeds for a while, but I haven’t been able to figure out where they are - they were probably testing the system), this is great news for government and law librarians [...]
SLA 2006 Conference Blog
May 6th, 2006This is a bit odd.
The 2005 SLA Conference Blog is linking to the 2006 Conference Blog. Different URL. Different RSS feed. Why aren’t they just using the same blog and feed? If they are going to do this (and I highly suggest that they don’t), at least use Feedburner to keep [...]
Geneology 2.0
May 5th, 2006Whoa! Take a look at this. Libraries with geneological archives could have a field day with this. (link via MapBuilder
Bookmobiles Rock
May 5th, 2006
Bookmobiles Rock
Originally uploaded by riddle.
I’m loving this bookmobile from the Austin Public Library. Want to see more pictures of bookmobiles? Heck, got one for your library? Flickr it.
A Brick Wall
May 4th, 2006The Green and Gray Librarian presented on RSS, Blogs, and Wikis to her colleagues at work (She used PBWIKI!!!) and received a luke warm repsonse:
“I think the presentation was mostly me talking to the walls. I know a few members of the staff were interested, but I think the rest will simply dismiss it as [...]