Archive for August, 2006
Caption This Photo
August 15th, 2006
tappin’ on the stacks
Originally uploaded by jammies.
She didn’t see a sign that said, “No Tapping”, so….she tapped!
New to me librar* blogs
August 15th, 2006+ From a KC Librarian - “Just an average guy trying to make sense of his life in the library and beyond…..”
+ Library Tourguide to Technology - “My name is Sandra Stewart, I’m a branch manager at San Jose Public Library and today, I’ll be your Tourguide to technology that has implications to libraries and [...]
Just A Bunch of Tubes
August 15th, 2006I read this in the New York Law Journal this morning:
“Mr. White said the plaintiffs missed the deadline for filing opposition papers because it relied on an erroneous report on the e-law Web site that said the Nassau County Supreme Court would be closed on Jan. 3.”
Ouch! Just another reason to not rely on [...]
Michigan Archivist is Blogging
August 13th, 2006Word from News from Nancy Robertson, State Librarian of Michigan that Mark Harvey, the State Archivist, has started a blog. It’s called the Anecdotal Archivist.
Darien Takes on Kenton
August 13th, 2006Jenny Levine has post about a blog from the director of the Darien Public Library. I followed a few links and came across Darien’s list of feeds. Well, not as much as Kenton County Public, but a nice list. I like that they are listing the latest posts from each blog, which, [...]
Fun At Adventureland
August 13th, 2006We took the kids to Adventureland today, a place where I spent many summer days as a kid. I realized that I hadn’t been there in about 25 years!
More here.
Don’t Be Phony
August 12th, 2006Jessamyn says:
“When I was speaking in Australia in 2004 about the USA PATRIOT Act and CIPA and HIPAA, someone asked the question “How do you keep going? How do you face each day with all these difficult tasks ahead of you?” And my answer was then, as it is now, I think I’m right. I [...]
More Librar* Blogs
August 11th, 2006A few that Aggie brought me today. Thanks babe:
+ @ the library - “Hi. My name is Rhonda. I’m a librarian. Well, I’m lots of other things as well, but my profession is librarianship. I graduated from Simmons College in 1993 and now I’m Dean of the Library at Colorado State University - Pueblo. [...]
Cute RSS Slides
August 10th, 2006
Quality search results to your order
Originally uploaded by lukethelibrarian.
Brought to you fresh from LukeTheLibrarian. More here.
Click Here
August 10th, 2006Hey folks. I just wanted to point out that Elsevier is now advertsing on Library Stuff for their new Science Direct offering, e-Select. So, do me a favor and click this link and take a look at their products. It’s ads like these that help Library Stuff continue. So, if you [...]
Off the Shelf
August 9th, 2006Greg “Big Daddy” Schwartz blogs about the fantabulous crew over at The Kenton County Public Library and their public access videos which, by the way, can be accessed via RSS. Suweeet!
Kenton may win for most feeds offered by a Public Library. They’re going RSS mad over there. I love it.
IM on Pens
August 9th, 2006
2006 FYS pen
Originally uploaded by Andrew Whitis.
Great way to market that your library has an IM account. On pens! Great work Muskingum College Library. They’ve got a blog too.
Watch For Those Gaps
August 9th, 2006In the two years that I’ve bene riding the rails of the LIRRNewsday says:
“Each slipped suddenly into a gaping space between train and platform on the Long Island Rail Road. Each still bears traces of the experience, which befalls at least 60 LIRR passengers a year — the second-highest cause of injury on the rail [...]
I Ain’t Gettin’ Away Wit Nuttin’
August 9th, 2006Steve Oberg over at Family Man Librarian (subscribe to his blog, BTW), thinks I’m able to “get away with not using tags or categories” in my blog. He then says:
“[B]ased on my experience, if I want something I have to say to be read or picked up elsewhere, it had better be tagged or [...]
Let Amazon Ship ALL Books to Patrons
August 9th, 2006Of course, this is a great idea. I’m all in favor of sending books to library users via the mail. What’s better is that Amazon will pay the shipping costs.
But what about books that the library already owns? I think we should be shipping those as well. I recently read [...]
She’s Blogging Folks!
August 9th, 2006From the “it’s about time” department, I learn from my new friend David Rothman that my other new friend, Alexia Estabrook, (I’ve known her a bit longer, having met her at the last Internet Librarian) has started a blog. Go Alexia! Subscribed!
Alexia posted a few days ago about Worldcat.org and had this to [...]
What Librarians Can Learn From AOL
August 9th, 2006The AOL goof got me thinking about user queries on search engines and how librarians can step up our game in educating on how to research better. If you’ve taken a look at the data, you’ll see an inkling of how users query Web engines. It didn’t shock me to see that people [...]
More Librar* Blogs
August 8th, 2006Just a few my aggregator sent my way over the past few days:
+ TASLA Blog - “The Texas Association of School Library Administrators Weblog”
+ Michael Stephens mentioned all of the blogs from PLCMC. Yay!
+ The Screen Porch - “News from Stony Brook University’s West Campus Libraries”
+ University Library e-Resources Trials and Acquisitions - Another [...]
More on WorldCat
August 7th, 2006Ebyblog (another anonymous blog) responds to my post about WorldCat:
“Perhaps it’s just me, but it seems odd to see lots of libraries talking about how to increase usage, serve patrons and make themselves more relevant but then also see them turn away people who actively want to use their library. Just seems backwards to [...]
Caption This Photo
August 7th, 2006
Librarian at Work
Originally uploaded by Cavutto.
“The budget was cut so much that the library couldn’t afford scrap paper”
E-LIS reaches 4,000 Eprints
August 7th, 2006OA Librarian mentions that E-LIS has reached 4,000 eprints. Great news!
I love E-LIS and subscribe to their RSS Feed of latest updates. Today, this one was uploaded which corresponds directly to the chapter community needs assessment that I’m putting together for the book. Yes!
Google News Source Search
August 6th, 2006Wow! Philipp Lenssen has created a slick reference tool. If you want to know if a resource is indexed by Google News, use his database search tool.
Sure, it may not be complete and the data will change over time (I hope he periodically updates it), but I’d rather have this than nothing! I [...]
Yeah, But Can I Actually Get the Book?
August 6th, 2006First of all, I’m a huge fan of the new WorldCat. Huge. Fan.
That said, there’s still a big issue at stake that OCLC needs to consider. If I were a regular “Joe Smith Library User”, and I found a book at, say, Stony Brook, I would hop in my car and go [...]
When Does One Become A Librarian?
August 6th, 2006A cute and quite truthful post from A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette:
“Contrary to what some naive and enthusiastic recent library school graduates might think, one does not actually become a librarian until one gets a job as a librarian. When you graduate from library school, you are not a librarian with a job as [...]
Topix Reloaded!
August 6th, 2006Topix got a facelift this weekend. It also looks like we can search back a full years worth of content! Suweeeeet!
I just wish their title: advanced query still worked.
What is Peace?
August 6th, 2006Barbie, my brilliant wife, said this today:
“If the Hezbollah put down their weapons, there will be peace.
If Israel puts down their weapons, there will be no Israel”
If you’ve never been to Israel (I spent 6 weeks there in 1992), you just don’t understand what it means to the Jewish people and how vulnerable it is [...]
Repressed Librarian - The Real Me
August 5th, 2006Warning: Lots of grammatical errors ahead. That’s not important to me right now. Put away those red pens.
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Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever come across this blog before. What an experience I just had.
You see, she blogs from the heart and is honest about herself and how she feels about, [...]
Designing Libraries - RSSified
August 4th, 2006If you’re into library design, the you’ll be happy to know that Designing Libraries, out of the UK, now has RSS Feeds. There’s four to choose from:
* Latest news
* Events
* Latest database additions
* Latest gallery images
That last one seems interesting. (via Peter Scott’s Library Blog
6 Years! Whew!
August 4th, 2006Happy Blogiversary
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And to celebrate, let’s caption this picture taken at a friends wedding in 1999. Thanks Brian Smith for the pointer to this old picture.
Baby Carver 2.0
August 3rd, 2006Congrats Blake on the birth of your second. Having two is, to quote Hallie, “Pizza Cake”.