Archive for July, 2007
Shhh?
July 25th, 2007Seattlest - “It’s been ages and ages since we thought of the library — any public library — as a temple of silence. Not noisy, of course (except for the wide-open concrete sounding booth that is downtown), but a pleasant hubbub. A place to hammer out your campaign against vampires or an evil mayor.”
Somebody’s Watching Me
July 25th, 2007
fbi
Originally uploaded by Traykor
Not Library Science
July 25th, 2007Inside Higher Ed - “The new president of the American Library Association is a professor in a college not of library of science, but of information.” (via)
Beam Me Up
July 25th, 2007Roddy MacLeod - “One of the classic lines from Star Trek was when, on seeing new life on a strange planet, Dr McCoy turned to Captain Kirk and said in an ominous tone: ‘It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.’ I have replaced ‘life’ with ‘RSS’ in the title of this article not [...]
NYT Archives to NYPL
July 25th, 2007NYT - “Disputes about printing confidential national security information have flared in recent years, but this particular letter is dated July 11, 1916, and was sent by Newton Baker, Woodrow Wilson’s secretary of war. It is part of a vast collection of personal letters, financial documents, confidential reports, photographs and more — more than 700,000 [...]
RIP Desktop RSS Readers
July 25th, 2007Read/Write/Web - “Desktop RSS Readers Are (Nearly) Dead”
A natural progression. RSS was made for the Web.
Finding People
July 25th, 2007BusinessWeek: “These people-search engines sound like a stalker’s dream come true. But Spock and other such sites contend they return information a Web surfer could eventually find anyway; they just highlight it more effectively. And they don’t list phone numbers and addresses.”
FML Turns 40
July 24th, 2007Happy Birthday Family Man Librarian (Steve Oberg). What an uplifting post.
Albert Ellis, R.I.P.
July 24th, 2007NYT: “Albert Ellis, whose streamlined, confrontational approach to psychotherapy made him one of the most influential and provocative figures in modern psychology, died early today at his home in an apartment above the institute he founded Manhattan. He was 93. The cause was kidney and heart failure, said a friend and associate, Gayle Rosellini.”
I studied [...]
Gaming at Library Questioned
July 24th, 2007While many enjoyed the symposium, others aren’t happy about library-sponsored gaming nights.
Interesting quote from the director: “It’s the parents’ obligation to know what their kids are doing,” said Library Director Marilyn Genther. “It’s up to them to know (the rating). It’s not our responsibility.”
I don’t know the whole situation (and I’m not much into [...]
Caption This Photo
July 24th, 2007
Professor Trelawney and Don
Originally uploaded by St. Joseph County Public Library
1) You should really get that checked out
OR
2) Let me show you how we called HQ in the good ol’ days.
AntiSocial Networking
July 24th, 2007Annoyed Librarian - “If there were an antisocial networking site, I might join, but what would be the point.”
YAs Are Getting Served
July 24th, 2007ALA - “The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association, applauds two recent surveys that illustrate progress in staffing and use of library services to young adults.”
PikiFX
July 24th, 2007Pikifx - “Pikifx is a website that allows users to upload their image and add a range of cool effects” (via)
I’m still hopelessly devoted to Piknik…
E-mail RIP…Again
July 24th, 2007Textually: “Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead”
Law Libraries Still Exist
July 24th, 2007William P. Atkins, writing in the Legal Times - “Climbing atop a soapbox, I would like to suggest that the alluring attraction of online research is diminishing the application of comprehensive research in our field. Somewhere along the way, “finding” information became synonymous with “citing” and — even more dangerous — “understanding” information.” (via)
Public Records Research
July 23rd, 2007Lifehacker has a few tips.
FRL Turns Four
July 23rd, 2007Congrats KGS!!
Good Librar* PR
July 23rd, 2007Candace Lombardi - “Chances are you are buying, subscribing to, or stealing something you can get for free with a library card.”
Also: Gary Price is all over the Web today.
Scobleview
July 23rd, 2007Eric Enge interviews Robert Scoble (via)
New LJ Connect
July 23rd, 2007Jay Datema has an intro to the issue, which includes a few goodies by John Blyberg and Richard Akerman. Plus a lengthy overview of vendor database alerts by Gail Golderman & Bruce Connolly.
How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
July 23rd, 2007Harvard Business School Working Knowledge: “HBS professor Andy McAfee had his doubts about Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia created and maintained by volunteers. “I just didn’t think it could yield a good outcome or a good encyclopedia. But I started consulting it and reading the entries, and I said, ‘This is amazing.’ ”
(Thanks Edana!)
CEOs and Books
July 22nd, 2007NYT: “Michael Moritz, the venture capitalist who built a personal $1.5 billion fortune discovering the likes of Google, YouTube, Yahoo and PayPal, and taking them public, may seem preternaturally in tune with new media. But it is the imprint of old media — books by the thousands sprawling through his Bay Area house — that [...]
What Are Thingers Posting Right Now
July 22nd, 2007This could be more addicting than Digg Spy.
Summer Travels Continued
July 21st, 2007We went to the “East End” of Long Island today. As always, we stopped off on Montauk Highway for some good old hot corn on the cob. Yummy!
Collection Development(s)
July 20th, 2007WFSB - “A New Britain man claims that the city’s library refused to put his donated CD in its catalog because the disc contains a song condemning hate crimes on gay people.”
College Booked
July 20th, 2007Consumerist: “The cost of textbooks is rising faster than inflation and Hammond doesn’t feel right forcing his students to purchase ever more expensive books on top of their already expensive tuition and fees.” (via)
Access Denied
July 20th, 2007Andy Carvin: “Here we were, a group of educators participating in a professional development seminar trying to discuss the role that Web 2.0 sites can play in civic education - at a presidential library, no less - and we were denied access to the information and tools we needed to have that discussion.”
Video Answers
July 20th, 2007MediaWeek - “Yahoo has partnered with GMC to launch an original video series that leverages Yahoo Answers, the portal’s successful community Q&A platform. The new Answers on the Street show, marries the Yahoo Answers wisdom of the crowds concept with man on the street interviews, with a healthy dose of branded entertainment mixed in”
Tools for Researchers and Book Lovers
July 19th, 2007eHub - “Libraries, students and book lovers can take advantage of several Web 2.0 tools to help them manage their book collections, do research, and create bibliographic citations”