Archive for September, 2007
Boys Read Too
September 26th, 2007Alexandra Frean - “Attempts by parents and teachers to persuade boys to read more are being undermined by publishers whose insistence on using lurid “Barbie” pink covers on books is turning away young male readers in their droves.” (via)
Congrats Chad!
September 26th, 2007Chad Haefele - “Starting November 5th, I’ll have a new job - “Reference Librarian for Emerging Technologies” at UNC Chapel Hill - Davis Library!”
Marketing Skills
September 26th, 2007Ahmed Bilal - “Self-Promotion is something most of us are uncomfortable with - and it’s not just the prospect of ’selling’ that turns us off, in reality its insecurity (cleverly dressed as modesty) that holds us back.”
Question for Library School Professors
September 26th, 2007For those that assign a blog as a requirement for a course, do you give the students the option to not have the blog publicly available for all to read? If not, do you tell them how to set it up so that it isn’t?
Does this question make sense? Sorry, I’m running on [...]
ATM Machine
September 26th, 2007Scott Vine - “So whilst it is fine to say ISB Number or just ISBN, saying ISBN Number actually means you’re repeating yourself and saying International Standard Book Number Number - there is no such thing, it’s like saying telephone number number.”
Right on. I’m picky like that too. Remember folks, it’s not “Web [...]
Reading is Good For You
September 26th, 2007David Rothman - “Could books, E included, be good for your mental health—at least if presented in the right context?”
Does it Serve Bagels?
September 25th, 2007Introducing, the Kosher vending machine, open 24/6. Hah! (via)
Ad for Sony Reader
September 25th, 2007
Ad for Sony Reader
Originally uploaded by bmljenny
Quote from the pic: “I’d like to see a battle of the sexy between the Sony Reader and Mudflap Librarian from Wyoming’s campaign”
Filthy Shakespeare
September 25th, 2007Joseph B. Frazier - “In high school, when Miss Grundy rubbed your adolescent nose in Shakespeare, she was perhaps unaware that the Bard of Avon had ye pottye mouthe.”
Just in time for Banned Books Week.
Tennant on Innovation
September 25th, 2007Roy Tennant - “If you want to find a treasure under a rock I’d pick up the small ones.”
Props to PLA
September 25th, 2007ALA Press Release - “PLA 2008, the 12th National Conference of the Public Library Association (PLA), will feature online access to all handouts at www.placonference.org before, during and after the conference, allowing attendees to download or print out only the handouts they need, significantly reducing the amount of wasted paper”
Title Search on HeinOnline
September 25th, 2007HeinOnline Blog - “Title Lookup will give you the ability to easily locate titles in HeinOnline. Currently with over 3,000 titles in over 25 libraries, it can be difficult to determine which titles reside in which collections.”
Such a simple concept that will make using this incredible resource so much easier!
More on Online Photo Editors
September 25th, 2007I’m going to have to take a stab at using Flauntr (via)
Top Pundits in America
September 25th, 2007What about bloggers?
“Web pundits like Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos and Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo score high likability ratings with certain population segments, but their awareness numbers, which are more important than appeal, E-Poll notes, are barely on the radar screen.”
Oh well.
As for Librar* pundits, I vote for Stephen [...]
Honey, Can I Get This. Please?
September 25th, 2007Josh Lowensohn - “Picnik is launching a new premium subscription service tomorrow morning. $24.95 gets you a year of access to a slew of advanced effects and fonts.”
Picnik is the king of online photo editors. Another tool I would pay for to gain access to advanced features (if ever available)? Google Reader, of [...]
I’m Your Friend
September 25th, 2007Walaika Haskins - “The office of Andrew Cuomo, New York’s attorney general, has been thumbing through Facebook lately, and it isn’t looking for new friends. Undercover investigators set up Facebook profiles pretending to be teenage girls, then received inappropriate come-ons from adult users. The investigators then complained to Facebook in the guise of the teens’ [...]
No Supreme Court For You
September 25th, 2007Emilia Askari - “The Michigan Supreme Court today denied Bloomfield Hills attorney George Goldstone’s request for a rehearing of his case against the Bloomfield Township Public Library.” (via)
More on the Mudflap Girl
September 25th, 2007
ALA Flickr Goodies
September 25th, 2007ALA invited me to their Banned Books Flickr group. I’m not much of a joiner these days, but I said yes to the invite. Thanks ALA.
One Complaint?
September 25th, 2007Karen Nelson - “The National Coalition Against Censorship is watching with interest the Jackson-George Regional Library System’s decision to temporarily pull a best-selling novel from its shelves. System Director Michael Hamlett made the call in August based on the complaint of one patron at the Ocean Springs branch of the library system who called the [...]
Get a Grip
September 24th, 2007If you were offended by this, get off the Internet. Sheesh!
More On The New York Times
September 24th, 2007Many questions raised by Barbara Quint.
Digital Librarian in Neon
September 24th, 2007
Digital Librarian in Neon
Originally uploaded by geeky artist librarian
When The Kids Are Bad
September 24th, 2007Courtney Mabeus - “With disruptive behavior on the rise at some Montgomery County libraries, some officials say they might start throwing the book at youthful violators.”
Two For One Marketing
September 23rd, 2007Steve Lohr - “And he is reaching out to the public to try to give the laptop campaign a boost. The marketing program, to be announced today, is called “Give 1 Get 1,” in which Americans and Canadians can buy two laptops for $399.”
Post of the Month
September 23rd, 2007From Michael McGrorty - “Somebody once asked me what it was like to be depressed. I couldn’t tell them. The fact is, I don’t really know. You see, I’ve been depressed all my life.”
Read the whole thing. And props for Michael for telling it.
New Steve Book
September 23rd, 2007Mel Odom - “Stephen King’s new novel, Duma Key, arrives in stores nationwide in January 2008″
If You Were a Banner…
September 23rd, 2007Which book would you ban?
I guess a different question to ask would be: if you could ban a book, would you?
Dissertation Completed
September 23rd, 2007Leslie Crang - “After constantly talking about my dissertation entitled Blogging and its impact on libraries and librarians I have published it here on my personal website.”
Congrats!
Privacy and Self Check Out
September 23rd, 2007Chronicles of Dissent - “With self-check, patrons can come pick up books they reserve without having to wait on line or for librarian assistance. The problem with self-check is that libraries put the reserved books out where they are available to everyone and with the patron’s name on the tag, allowing anyone [...]