Archive for October, 2007
A Classic From Annoyed Librarian
October 31st, 2007On gaming and libraries. Again, if AL were to reveal her identity, I don’t think that she would have posted this. It’s unfortunate, but to avoid the mob mentality, these posts are more effective when posted anonymously.
Was It Something I said?
October 31st, 2007I just lost half of my Google Reader subscribers.
Bibliotherapy
October 30th, 2007Epist - “In times of stress, confusion, frustration and all around low feelings, what better salve than a good read?”
Listservs are Dead
October 30th, 2007Correction: Print’s not dead, it’s a vegetable
Who Said Librarians Were Geeks/Nerds/Dorks?
October 30th, 2007Terry’s Workblog - “A Jack-o-Lantern with the MARC record of the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” (via)
More on Child Porn
October 30th, 2007Mark Sherman - “The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court Tuesday to uphold a law against the promotion of child pornography, rejecting First Amendment claims that it limits legitimate creative expression.”
More on the Patriot Act
October 30th, 2007Norman Oder - “The American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are seeking language that would ensure that law enforcement requests for library patron records or the surveillance of library users through library networks go through judicial review.”
Libraries in 2017
October 28th, 2007A Flickr Set
What’s The Difference…
October 28th, 2007Biblioblather - “What’s the difference between a librarian and a large pizza? A large pizza can feed a family of four. OK, it’s an old joke, and one teen can eat a large pizza.”
Alien bowling at the Halloween party
October 28th, 2007
Alien bowling at the Halloween party
Originally uploaded by abbamouse
More on the San Jose Filtering Dispute
October 28th, 2007Scott Herhold - “Second-hand porn will linger”
Are Concerts at Libraries Too Loud?
October 28th, 2007Albert A. Marinelli, - “Now, I can tolerate a certain amount of conversation that takes place at normal voice levels, and the occasional cell phone discussions that take place next to me. But a full-volume musical concert within 50 feet of the main seating area is where I have to draw a line.”
Law Libraries Facing Changes
October 28th, 2007Shane Hoover - “If not for the small sign next to the door, the Stark County Law Library’s entrance looks like that of storage room.”
FYI, the Stark County Law Library has had a blog since April 2003.
Librarians Breathe a Sigh of Relief
October 28th, 2007Brian Wingfield - “Another endangered species: journalists. Despite the proliferation of media outlets, newspapers, where the bulk of U.S. reporters work, will cut costs and jobs as the Internet replaces print.”
Read more of the article for the worst jobs for the 21 century. (via)
Keeping Up…With Fashion
October 28th, 2007Erica Sherrill Owens - “Hattiesburg resident Nancy Kaul totally blows the stereotype of a dowdy librarian out of the water.”
Air Travel Stinks
October 28th, 2007Supposed to get into Monterey at 7:30PM. Now, I’ll be arriving at 1:30AM (fingers crossed).
And people ask me why I don’t travel anymore. Question answered.
ITI Blog
October 27th, 2007The folks at ITI will be startin’ up the ol’ blog for next weeks festivities. I might pop my head in there every now and then.
More on Jackson County, OR
October 27th, 2007A few libraries are reopening. Thank goodness.
Rap Lyrics Translated
October 27th, 2007From the site - “This paper was turned in by an Oakland High school student who received the highest honors at the school district’s Ebonics translation competition.” (via)
Jim and Dwight on Second Life
October 27th, 2007Jim: Playing that game again?
Dwight: Second Life is not a game. It is a multi-user virtual environment. It doesn’t have points or scores. It doesn’t have winners or losers.
Jim: Oh, it has losers.
Classic line from a classic show. It just keeps getting better and better.
More From A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette
October 25th, 2007Sal - “Make sure that you fool your bosses (who are a million times more technophobic than your grandparents) into thinking that you are ‘up on technology’ by making reference to Wikis and RSS content as if they really mattered”
Ha! Love it.
More READ Posters
October 25th, 2007A Flickr set
Kansas Memories For All To See
October 25th, 2007livelibrary - “Kansas Memory is the Historical Society’s newest online offering, featuring the largest collection of photographs and manuscripts from Kansas history on the Internet, and can be accessed at kansasmemory.org.”
Happiness Is….
October 25th, 2007Pumpkin Spice beer at John Harvard’s.
Even better? You can purchase a 64 oz jug of the stuff to take home. We’re picking up one on Saturday.
Woo Hoo!
IL Here We Come
October 25th, 2007Meredith Farkas - “Oh boy, this is going to be quite a week!”
New Librarian Sitcom
October 25th, 2007George Needham - “I always thought that there was a great library-based sitcom just waiting to be produced.”
What Shel Israel Will Tell Librarians
October 25th, 2007Shel - “If nothing else, my previous post asking what I should say in a speech to the California Librarians Association, produced over 30 responses. Clearly people are passionate on the subject. Clearly they also have a positive outlook for the need for libraries.”
I met Shel once (he probably doesn’t remember me) at a [...]
More On The Missing Material At The LOC
October 25th, 2007Tim Spalding - “It’s too bad asking users for help is harder in the physical than in the digital world—although I’m sure a lot of thingamabrarians would pay for the privilege of rolling a cart through the LC’s stacks…”
This is Just Sad
October 25th, 2007Reuters - “Rather than looking for their perfect match, one in four Americans say the Internet can serve as a substitute for a significant other, according to a poll released on Wednesday.”
Added “Talk” At Internet Librarian
October 25th, 2007On October 30th, I will be doing a quickie 5-10 talk about RSS at the EOS International Luncheon Seminar. We use EOS for cataloging/OPAC at one of our clients and have built a strong relationship with them. I’m thrilled to be doing this for the EOS folks.
I hope to see you there as [...]