Archive for July, 2006
Lotsa Librarian Bloggers…
July 21st, 2006Steve Matthews picks up on my post yesterday about the high number of librarian bloggers as compared to other professions and says:“[E]ven if Librarians are only ‘one of the largest groups’ blogging, that’s cool! And coming from a profession that’s needed a kick in the ‘ol profile department for a while, the trend of Blogging [...]
Introducing RSS Smart Answers
July 20th, 2006Today, Ask rolled out RSS Smart Answers, a quick way to read the latest posts from a blog when an Ask.com web search is performed for one. Lovely.
So that’s what Gary wanted to show me when he e-mailed me yesterday. I was wondering. Also, it must be noted again that Gary Price [...]
Where Do I Find Them?
July 20th, 2006Many have asked where I find all of the librar* blogs that I post on the lists. Easy. I spend 12 hours a day scouring the web for them. What, did you think I did it any other way?
Actually, I find many of them on blogrolls from other librar* blogs. [...]
Library Camp East, 2006
July 20th, 2006It might be a stretch, but I hope to make it to Library Camp East 2006. Darien is not that far from where I live (just a hop across the LI Sound, and I really want to meet some of these awesome folk like Mr. Blyberg and see people that I haven’t chatted with [...]
Live from an Israeli bunker
July 20th, 2006Barbie just passed along a blog called Live from an Israeli bunker:
“A live blog from an Israeli bunker via laptop and wifi. Provides a unique and unprecedented insight into the rapidly escalating situation in the middle east. Experience the events thru the eyes of the people who live them, and perhaps get an idea of [...]
More Read Posters!
July 20th, 2006The Skokie Public Library has a Flickr account and is creating READ posters. The great part about these posters is who posed for them. Senator Barack Obama, Senator Dick Durbin, The Mayor of Skokie George Van Dusen, and more! Way to go Skokie PL, working the community, political, and marketing angle in [...]
Oy Vey!
July 20th, 2006There’s lots to say about this article from the Manawatu Standard about the arrest of a librarian on drunk drive charges:
1) The subtitle states, “When it came to breath alcohol readings, the assistant librarian was top shelf.” - very clever!
2) From the article: “He said she was returning from an extended lunch when the accident [...]
How Many Internet Users Does it Take….
July 19th, 2006Interesting figures from the Guardian on Internet particpation:
“Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo points out that much the same applies at Yahoo: in Yahoo Groups, the discussion lists, “1% of the user population might start a group; 10% of the user population might participate actively, and actually author content, whether starting a thread or responding to a [...]
Lotsa Bloggers
July 19th, 2006Pew is out with a new report today on bloggers (Pew’s got RSS Feeds, if you’re into their work) which will make for interesting train reading tomorrow. From the first page.
“Blogs, the survey finds, are as individual as the people who keep them. However, most bloggers are primarily interested in creative, personal expression – [...]
Librar* Blogs Lists Note
July 18th, 2006These lists are by far my most popular themed posts ever (and I’ve been blogging for almost 6 years!). I’ve been getting at least 5 e-mails a day from librarians all over the world asking to be placed on the next list post. Of course, I will do just that. It’s so [...]
More Library Construction Pics
July 17th, 2006The Cleveland Institute of Music is undergoing construction.. They say so on their web site:
“Due to construction, from June 5th through late August the Cleveland Institute of Music facilities will be closed to the general public. Access to the CIM LIbrary will be limited to pre-authorized CIM library patrons and within a specific time frame.”
You [...]
Lotsa Law Librar* Blogs!
July 17th, 2006I just noticed that Bonnie Shucha’s list of “Law Library Blogs and Blogs by Law Librarians or Law Library Associations” is now up to 102! I’m sure that there are more. If you are not on the list and should be, let Bonnie know.
She’s added Library Stuff to the list, which I thought [...]
El-RSS-Sevier?
July 17th, 2006 The “Medical RSS” David Rothman has been discussing RSS with one of the Elsevier employees about Scopus. He’s asked the Scopus guy to show him the RSS.
Here’s hoping that Mr. Sherman answers the call.
I’ve met a bunch of the guys from Engineering Village and have blogged about their awesome product in [...]
Ari “Long Tail” Cohen?
July 17th, 2006Wow! Chris Anderson (the Long Tail guy) was once in a band called REM. Great story.
So, what would have happened if Chris’s band would have won the battle of the REMs?
Would my son have a different name? Possibly…
More Librar* Blogs
July 16th, 2006Ah, what the heck. We’ll start off the week with yet more librar* blogs. If I haven’t highlighted your librar* blog yet, send me a not (stevenmcohen [at] gmail.com) and I’ll be sure to get it in on the next run. And if you want to see my running list, I’m tagging new [...]
Flickr Read Poster Group
July 16th, 2006Cool. I didn’t know that there was a Flickr Read Poster Group
More Open Source Library Web Sites
July 16th, 2006From the comments on the Joomla post from the other day comes Robert Rynkiewicz, who points out that his library has been using Mambo since February and is moving over to Joomla soon. Again, this means that they can do really neat things with RSS such as syndicate their own feeds as well [...]
She Does!
July 16th, 2006Mary Carmen Chimato a veteran blogger is getting married today. Congrats!!!!
Update - It seems I was too quick on the publish button. Mary’s sister Francyne is getting married today. Greg pointed me to the Bridal Shower pics from May. So, congrats to Mary’s sister!
You know, that’s why I love my readers. [...]
Denise Howell Moves On
July 16th, 2006Denise Howell (one of my first blawger contacts) has a poignant post about law firms, getting fired, and moving on. As someone who has gone through more changes over the last few months than he signed on for, I hear ya sista! Good luck Denise, wherever you may land.
Caption This Photo
July 15th, 2006“Talk about your portable libraries.”
Or
“Excuse me, where is the bathroom?”
Picture first seen here.
Libraries For My Friends
July 15th, 2006The CogSci Librarian (no idea who this is - I wish it wasn’t anonymous) started a new blog called Libraries for My Friends:
“I have started a blog explaining to my non-library friends how to use the local library system. I’ll post infrequently, but I hope it helps people use our great resources more effectively. Let [...]
Oh no! Boobies! Kids, Get off the Computer!
July 13th, 2006Run, don’t walk (don’t pass go, etc) to this post by one of the greatest teachers on the Web, Will Richardson:
“The biggest shift is not the technology, not the practice, not even the implementation. It’s the cultural, social shift that moves us from the idea that we must prevent our kids from seeing and engaging [...]
More Video Casts
July 12th, 2006By way of David King’s Comments comes word that The Orange County Library System also offers what they are calling “vodcasts”. You can see a directory over here. They have lots of RSS goodies as well.
Graffiti in Brooklyn
July 12th, 2006This is interesting. The Brooklyn Museum is hosting a Graffiti Exhibit and they are asking the public to join in by submitting their own photographs on Flickr. A bit restricting (see the guidelines) and you turn over the rights to the piucture to the museum, but the concept is still very cool. [...]
The Skinny on Law Librarianship
July 11th, 2006By way of beSpacific (a blog I’ve added back into my aggregator due to my new job) comes the annual piece on law librarians from the American Lawyer. I’m really excited about it this year, for obvious reasons. I’ve done a light skim (more indepth reading will be done on the train tomorrow) [...]
Castr
July 11th, 2006I received an e-mail from Aaron J. Bedra of the Westerville Public Library (OH) this afternoon, asking me to check out a tool they are working on called castr.
They are recording video of library programs and placing them in a feed. There are currently 3 “casts” in there now and you can watch them [...]
Comment Moderation
July 11th, 2006For the first time ever on Library Stuff, I have to start moderating comments. All comments that aren’t spam will be posted; I just need to look at them first. Blech! Anyway, if you leave a comment and it doesn’t come up right away, it’ll get there, I promise.
If this doesn’t work [...]
Hot Books in The City
July 10th, 2006A colleague once asked me if it were possible to get a list of the top books sold by Amazon by Zipcode. I replied that I wished that I could see that information, as libraries could see what types of books theoir patrons are interested in. I’m not saying that the libraries should [...]
More Joomla Love
July 10th, 2006Jason Griffey notes that his library is going to use Joomla for their library site redesign. Suweeeet!
Any other libraries using Joomla or Drupal?
Dinner With InfoTangle
July 10th, 2006I had dinner with Ellyssa Kroski from InfoTangle tonight. We’re working on an idea for a track for CIL 2007 (!) More as the months progress, but we’re so very excited about the idea.