Archive for June, 2007
Congrats Zachary Abrams
June 18th, 2007Not only is he a genius, I have always been impressed that Stephen Abram, despite his crazy schedule, is a family man. A true class act. And congrats to Zachary on his graduation. Hallie just graduated preschool. They had a ceremony and everything.
There is nothing like having a family. [...]
WorldCat Lists
June 18th, 2007A new useful tool from the WorldCat peeps. Thanks!!! (via)
Twitter, Twitter, Twitter
June 17th, 2007@LibraryStuff readers - John Tropea has links to lots of Twitter tools.
E-mail Bug Me Not
June 17th, 2007Cool! Bug Me Not now has a disposable e-mail service. (via)
Earn $10 to $15 Per Search
June 17th, 2007Mahalo is hiring. If you are a librarian and need some extra cash, you may be just what they are looking for. Does this scare the bejeezus out of anyone else?
Congrats LibraryThingers
June 17th, 200715 Million books in just under 2 years. Wowza!!
Two Book Searches Compared
June 17th, 2007Steve Leary compares Google Book Search to Microsoft’ Live Search Books.
Happy Father’s Day
June 17th, 2007
Mr. Wizard…
June 12th, 2007…has died.
BIGWIG
June 12th, 2007<pimp> My friend and colleague Jason Griffey asked me to pimp BIGWIG.
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It’s All About Being Creative
June 12th, 2007My Uncle Larry (Editorial writer and Blogger over at the Asbury Park Press) drew my attention to a student creative writing and cartooning contest he helped judge. He says:
“[i]t’s comforting to realize there are no losers, just selecting the cream of the cream.”
Read more about it here and take a look at the video [...]
Amanda Goes on Research Leave
June 12th, 20074 Weeks of getting organized and fixing up loose ends. I’m so very jealous.
Caption This Photo
June 12th, 2007
Millbrae Library Teens
Originally uploaded by San Mateo County Library
1) Hey buddy, watch where you put that dead hand.
2) Where did all the books go? Maybe the dead tape guy took them.
Mock-up: “Make Your Voice Heard” Flyer
June 12th, 2007
Mock-up: "Make Your Voice Heard" Flyer
Originally uploaded by geeky artist librarian
It’s all about the marketing…
Check, 1 2 3
June 10th, 2007From Scoop:
“A recording studio in a library? That must be a world first! To be honest, we don’t know, but it’s certainly a bold step. Beatbooth is a brand new initiative by the Palmerston North City Library, launched on May 24th 2007. Any member of the Library is able to book our music recording room…”
See [...]
Super Librarian
June 10th, 2007The AP has a piece on the popular Super Librarian YouTube video.
Dumbing Down
June 10th, 2007Interesting quote from this well written article, discussing both sides of the issue:
“Bill Otto, a health care consultant, says he thinks it’s part of the “dumbing down of our system.”
“What’s next? Where does it stop?” he asks. “The public library is trying to be all things to all people — but maybe that’s wrong. We [...]
“RSS Events” at ALA Conferences
June 9th, 2007This excited me until I saw the courses. Only one related to RSS (the one being taught by Michael Stephens).
If you’re going to call it an “RSS Event”, make sure it’s about RSS. Oy Vey ALA (hey, that rhymes, someone should make a T-shirt with that on it).
Update: RSS apparently [...]
Googling Privacy
June 9th, 2007I have to look at this report more at length. I use Google for a lot of things (not so much it’s search engine, but it’s docs, reader, Gmail, Calendar), so it’s important. Lots of other companies mentioned as well. (via)
Ballet Redux
June 9th, 2007David, been there, done that. Makes us fathers proud, eh? I think I’m going to miss Hallies next recital though.
No Flickr For You
June 9th, 2007China is apparently censoring Flickr. (via).
Amazon Tagging RSS Feeds
June 7th, 2007Amazon has introduced RSS Feeds for tagging items.
So, Amazoners can tag books. So can LibraryThingers. I wonder if someone can write a script combining the two. Oh Tim!!!
Lexis Nexis on Two Point Zero
June 4th, 2007The results from this survey amaze me:
“Information professionals are savvy when it comes to leveraging technology to make information more valuable, relevant, and accessible, with 93% of librarians saying they currently use intranets for managing and distributing information, and seeing collaborative workspaces (57%), wireless (44%), and portals (51%) as very important for the future.
The survey [...]
Birthdays and Anniversaries
June 4th, 2007This past week, there were celebrations galore for the Cohen clan:
1) Barbie and I celebrated 8 years of marriage. Wowza! (Pic from Ari’s bris)
2) Ari turned 1.
(more pictures here)
3) I celebrated 1 year of my new job (No pics of that - Sorry)
And, here’s an updated picture of Hallie, for kicks.
Yahoo Has Been Wrong Before
June 4th, 2007And my guess is, they will be again. Remember when they gave up search for portals and Google passed them right by?
Search is not dead. Good searching skills are dead. Librarians will always have jobs if we stick to what we do best.
I Thank Me
June 4th, 2007Erica over at Librarian Avengers has an interview with herself. If I did that, I’d have to pop some sort of prescribed psychotropic.
Thanks a Million
June 1st, 2007Taking a look at May’s stats (I check them once or twice a month), I was thrilled to see that, for the first time ever, Library Stuff had over 1 Million page views. I know, not an exact science, (and I would have to account for spammers), but I’m going to be happy anyway [...]