Archive for July, 2007
Celebrating
July 19th, 2007John Kerry: “Today, you may have noticed, is the fourth annual Blogosphere Day”
Sending Good Vibes
July 19th, 2007Phil, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your wife.
Congrats Jason!!
July 19th, 2007
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No pink? Good luck with that. Hallie wears pink every day.
Sixty Books, Sixty Libraries
July 19th, 2007University of Wisconsin News - “[T]he Bone Folders’ Guild, a Madison-based book arts group, created 60 blank journals and distributed them to each of the 60 libraries in Wisconsin’s South Central Library System. The project drew a wide range of participants-from farmers and bankers to children and the elderly-who contributed their own unique flavor to [...]
VuFind
July 19th, 2007“VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library’s resources by replacing the traditional OPAC” (via)
Roy Tennant has more info.
Facebook Decision
July 19th, 2007I’ve decided not to sign up for Facebook. I don’t want to spend more time online. I spend about 1 hour these days reading feeds and posting to LS and that’s going to be it for me.
Also, I’m probably going to delete my Twitter account. I’m just not cut out for this [...]
Anniversary of First Meeting
July 19th, 200717 years ago today, I “met” Barbie at Camp Kenwal. We had actually known each other since we were 13 years old, but July 19th, 1990 was the first time I thought, “Man, she’s cute” and asked her out.
Hormones are weird.
Museums/Libraries/The “L” Word
July 19th, 2007Nina from MuseumTwo asked me to write a follow-up post to hers (which I linked to here). I’m a bit too busy so I asked if I could put the request on LS. Sure, she said. Anyone want to take her up on the offer?
She’s looking for some commentary on the word [...]
Gee-Mail
July 18th, 2007Liefhacker - “[T]oday we’ve got our top 10 list of unauthorized and unofficial but hella-useful apps that make Gmail that much better.”
Books and MySpace
July 18th, 2007CNET - “Old-school book publishers are still trying to figure out how best to reach audiences on the Web and build online communities for their authors.”
LibraRSS
July 18th, 2007Learn RSS the library way from two of the pros in the biz.
Do you use ‘Profilactic’?
July 18th, 2007Webware - “Profilactic, which I covered previously, is now available to the public. It’s a personal feed aggregator: You tell it where you post online, and it pulls all the feeds together. You can point people to this “mashup” page, or use one of the site’s widgets to embed that info in your own profile [...]
Vacation
July 17th, 2007Jessa Crispin: “I should have scheduled my vacation for the Harry Potter month.”
We both had the same idea.
More Reason to Join FaceBook
July 17th, 2007AllFaceBook - “The iRead application has over 110,000 users and it looks like growth has started to peak.”
I’m still torn about joining. I’m afraid the floodgates will open and I’ll wind up with my head facedown on my laptop at 3:00AM. I’ll make a decision this week.
Libraries are Businesses
July 17th, 2007Peter Brantley - “[I]f libraries had shareholders, would they, like newspapers, be in the midst of a gut-wrenching, brake-screeching exercise in redefinition?”
BookTour
July 17th, 2007BookTour - “We’re a free online service that connects authors and potential audiences of all sorts, from book groups to civic organizations, from bookstores to corporate events.” (via)
Vatican Library Closure
July 17th, 2007BBC - “One of the world’s oldest public libraries, the Vatican Library, has closed for rebuilding. It is not expected to reopen before September 2010. (via)
My Google Reader Trends
July 17th, 2007
Some Don’t Drink the RSS Kool-Aid
July 17th, 2007Chip Griffen - “[m]any of us must remember that we live inside a bubble. Not one that’s going to burst like that Internet economic one did in 2000, but one that sometimes prevents us from understanding the rest of the world. This is a point I harp on — partially to keep myself [...]
Librarians Blogging And The Birth Of Library 2.0
July 17th, 2007Rohit Bhargava at DMW Daily - “Techies and geeks are not just finding their homes in startups from the valley working on the next social network or broadband-streaming-TV-over-the-Internet solutions. They are also landing into roles like “Digital Branch & Services Manager” at libraries and finding ways to bring information to more people more easily. [...]
Double Bind
July 17th, 2007There are books that I enjoy and books that cause me to use expletives because they are so damned well written. Double Bind, by Chris Bohjalian was one of those books. I have read a few of his novels (Midwives, Trans-Sister radio), but this one was his best. Hands down.
I’m a sucker [...]
Voice of HP
July 16th, 2007NYT - “A little less than two months ago, Mr. Dale, the veteran Broadway actor turned voice of Harry Potter, finished recording the audio version of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final installment in the colossally successful series by J. K. Rowling…So that means that he knows how it ends.”
You Go Girl!!!
July 16th, 2007Meredith Farkas - “After reading Jennifer’s post, I immediately drafted an e-mail to the Dean of the FSU College of Information, Larry Dennis. I got an e-mail from him that he had forwarded my e-mail on to a colleague, so we’ll see what happens. Maybe they’ll find the idea of me teaching a class laughable.”
Meredith, [...]
Hey! Remember LibraryLookup?
July 16th, 2007Jon Udell: “The LibraryLookup project is almost five years old, and people are still gradually discovering it, as I’m periodically reminded when I get a flurry of emails such as was provoked by this Lifehacker article. I think it’s time for this idea to graduate from the realm of hacks for adventurous people, and enter [...]
More on Harry Potter
July 16th, 2007Kids Lit has a response to the WAPO article.
LibGuides
July 16th, 2007Ellyssa Kroski: “LibGuides is a white-label subscription service which enables libraries to create a branded community of librarian-created subject guides or portals for their users.”
I’ll tell ya, I’m this close to signing up for FaceBook. So many cool things going on, but time is a factor. I have none of that.
Go To Wikipedia - Do Not Pass Go
July 16th, 2007Reuters - “Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.” (via)
The New T-Shirts Are Here
July 16th, 2007Unshelved: “We’ve come out with an updated design for our bestselling Will Work For Books t-shirt. Our man Jim took out a marker and some cardboard and ended up with this, which we think is even cooler than the old one”
Answers.com Has All the Answers.com
July 16th, 2007They buy Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com for a lot of money. Dictionary.com is the default definition engine on Google, which is probably where they made most of their money. (via)
Are Toolbars Your Friend?
July 16th, 2007Peter Webster: “Toolbars have been popular for several years, but it is now easier than ever to offer customized search services and tie new library resources like federated search and “ask a librarian” services directly to users.”