Archive for September, 2007
Convert Convert Convert
September 19th, 2007Alan Henry - “Everyone needs a good file converter.”
True indeed. You Convert It looks slick.
Banned Books Theatre
September 19th, 2007Diane Wright - “Book-It, which turns classic and contemporary literature into theater, performs “Danger Books” at 7 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Everett Public Library. Subtitled “A Celebration of Intellectual Freedom,” it will be a staged reading from classics and contemporary books that have been banned, censored or challenged in the United States.”
More Good PACER News
September 19th, 2007Via the ever diligent Abbie Mulvihill, a US Courts press release: “The Judicial Conference of the United States today voted to make transcripts of federal district and bankruptcy court proceedings available online through the Judiciary’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. Under the new policy, transcripts created by court reporters or transcribers will [...]
READ a Book, Mateys.
September 19th, 2007This will go over well at my lunch with Lexis today. Heh.
John Miedema Reviews Balanced Libraries
September 18th, 2007He says: “Balance is not a sexy idea, but Crawford helps makes sense of the debate, showing how both change and stasis can be troublesome for libraries, providing a fresh take on the timeless wisdom that technology must serve library the mission, not the reverse.”
I <3 Nancy Peal
September 18th, 2007One more reason to attend PLA 2008. I won’t be there, but I hope you tell me all about it.
Happiness is 25 years of…
September 18th, 2007(via)
Books about dummies, or books for dummies?
September 18th, 2007
Books about dummies, or books for dummies?
Originally uploaded by mollyali
Amazon Widgets
September 18th, 2007“Amazon.com today launched “Amazon Widgets,” a series of small, visually dynamic and easily configurable widgets that feature products from Amazon on blogs, websites and social networking pages.” (via)
More on the Mudflap Girl
September 18th, 2007Buy your own at Cafepress.
Equal / Not Equal
September 18th, 2007This is good news - “The Senate passed legislation Tuesday night that would require equal health insurance coverage for mental and physical illnesses when policies cover both. The bill, which passed by unanimous consent, moves advocates one step closer in their quest for a concept known as mental health parity”
This is not - “Maryland’s highest [...]
Free is as Free Does
September 18th, 2007Abbie Mulvihill - “I like free”.
Just a reminder that if your local library subscribes to Proquest New York Times Historical, you can access the entire NYT for free. Plus, you can impress your clients with PDFs of really old articles. I used it the other day.
New fiction 2008_09
September 18th, 2007
New fiction 2008_09
Originally uploaded by Books R Groovy
Slick!! (via)
More on Surveys
September 18th, 2007Ryan Deschamps - “Subscriptions are a hard thing.”
I’m glad that Ryan finds my blog RSS-able. It’s what I had in mind when I changed the format a few months back. I’ve received other positive feedback as well. This is the way I used to blog from 2000-2002(ish). We all have our [...]
READing is Fundamental
September 18th, 2007Newspaper Association of America - “Young people who used newspapers in school and read newspaper content aimed at teens are more likely to volunteer, vote and engage in civic expression as adults, according to a study of more than 1,500 25- to 34-year-olds released today by the Newspaper Association of America Foundation.” (via)
More on Human Filtering - The Bad Kind
September 18th, 2007Daniel Hartill - “A Lewiston woman wants to keep local children from seeing an acclaimed sex education book, “It’s Perfectly Normal.” So she checked out copies from the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries. And she won’t give them back.”
Experts
September 17th, 2007Steven Bell - “You might be an expert academic librarian - or maybe not.”
Robert Jordan
September 17th, 2007R.I.P.
Watching the Best Seinfeld. Ever!
September 17th, 2007George: “I cannot envision any circumstance in which I’ll ever have the opportunity to have sex again. How’s it gonna happen? I just don’t see how it could occur.”
Invisible Ink
September 17th, 2007Judy Keen - “Colleges and universities are intensifying efforts to reduce the growing problem of textbook thefts by marking books with invisible ink, requiring used bookstores to keep logs of sellers and banning the resale of the expensive volumes by non-students.” (via)
LOC 2.0
September 17th, 2007Matt Raymond - “As promised, the Library of Congress today launched an enhanced and, if I might say so, much spiffier homepage at LOC.gov.”
Well, yeah
September 17th, 2007Library Computer Guy - “[M]y point is that the public element of a public library exposes a public librarian to a wide array of patrons… a somewhat larger statistical skewing toward those with some form of mental illness.” (via)
More on Censoring
September 17th, 2007Japan Times - “Several libraries have suspended access to a book that contains confidential information about a teenager institutionalized for setting his home on fire and killing his stepmother and two siblings.”
Good Marketing
September 17th, 2007Jeremiah Owyang - “Connie has done something right.”
Go Connie.
The Top 25
September 17th, 2007Jennifer Pinkowski - “So who are the 25 most popular library bloggers?”
I was contacted by the author, but work and life prevented me from responding. I’m glad I didn’t. If you like a blog, read it. if you don’t, don’t. It’s a very simple concept.
Hot librarian from Springfield
September 17th, 2007
Hot librarian from Springfield
Originally uploaded by library_mistress
I love the cigarette.
Is LinkBlogging Legal?
September 17th, 2007A post from my favorite blog…for today.
Ads in Books
September 17th, 2007Eylon Israely - So although I personally don’t relish the idea of flipping through my new book while being annoyed by ads, I do believe that I would go for it to get a very expensive book I really want for half the price.”
I agree. I would happily trade an ad for a discount [...]
Yes, But I Never Wear a Tie.
September 17th, 2007Emily Clasper - “I would NEVER represent my organization and profession at a conference, meeting, or in a library wearing a hoodie sweatshirt.”
Borrow, Not Buy
September 17th, 2007Consumerist - “We always knew one of the biggest scams in college was the school bookstore, but we never realized that you could actually try borrowing textbooks from the library.”