Library Stuff

Kalthleen Hughes announced on the PLA Blog that they are building a wiki and that Andrea Merado will be running at the Spring Symposium!

Yay!  Go PLA Blog.

Michael Golrick took a run at Google Reader:

"Here is where my problem is, and it seems to be the way that Google, and many other web services work, that it assumes that I always want to see the newest item first. Well, maybe I am too concrete-sequential, or anal-retentive, or obsessive-compulsive, but, here is a news flash folks: I don’t want to read that way! I want to be able to logically follow a thread and have the OLDEST ITEM FIRST!"

I wonder how he wants to read his posts and if he’s adamant about it.    Heh.

I agree with his notion that the option should be there.  Whatever works for you, right?  If it had the option available, I wonder if Michael would switch over.  It certainly has all of the bells and whistles as Bloglines, but is much faster at indexing, reading feeds, and the options blow me away.  Bloglines, IMO, hasn’t developed much in the past few years and is pretty much a stagnant product. 

The thing about Google Reader that intruiges me is that Google has an endless amount of money and staff to work on all of their tools, including the reader.  It’s just going to get better.  I hope.

Update – As a few commenters pointed out, there is a way to sort by oldest item.  So, Michael, care to give it another try?

Great post from Happyville library.  I almost snorted my coffee:

Patron: Do you have Grease?

Patron (smiling playfully): No, some lubricant. Crisco? Wesson oil?

This column caught my eye this AM

"The Salem Public Library needs a new sign.

The shush sign need only be about 2 feet wide with oversized type in a half-dozen commonly spoken languages. It should have pictographs, just in case some patrons can’t read.

The city needn’t get hung up on specific wording. Just something along the lines of: "Out of respect for others, please silence (curb, shut off, ashcan, quell — you get the picture) your cell phone while in the library."

The column is actually pretty funny

Via Scoop, I learned about a new directory of New Zealand libraries.  Lots of mashup goodies, including data from Google Maps.  Also, RSS loveliness.