Archive for October, 2007
Who Loves Ya, Baby?
October 21st, 2007Soon to be mommy, Michelle Boule - “My Flickr contacts know more about me than my neighbors do.”
Congrats Michelle!!!
More on Harry Potter
October 21st, 2007AP - “With author J.K. Rowling’s revelation that master wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay, some passages about the Hogwarts headmaster and rival wizard Gellert Grindelwald have taken on a new and clearer meaning.”
Crop1 - shrunken
October 21st, 2007
Crop1 - shrunken
Originally uploaded by t_d_cornwell
Can anyone tell me what this is about? I’m guessing that it deals a library losing funding…
P1010329
October 21st, 2007
P1010329
Originally uploaded by mountainmama0108
Just In Time For Internet Librarian
October 21st, 2007The top 10 drinking quotes of all time
(via)
attack of the zombie librarians
October 21st, 2007
attack of the zombie librarians
Originally uploaded by circulating
Pesky Patrons
October 21st, 2007Guardienne of the Tomes - “As it was stated in the Billings Gazette: “phasing out services associated with the library as public space” is part of the plan. *sigh* Those pesky patrons again, bothering us in person, when they could just do it via IM so we could work from home in our pjs, with [...]
Good Grief!
October 21st, 2007Newsday reviews the Charles Schulz biography.
Shelf Check Outs Ramona Quimby
October 21st, 2007
Harry Potter and the Framers’ Intent
October 21st, 2007Michael C. Dorf - “In the balance of this column, I will explain why James Madison is no more of an authority on the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, than J.K. Rowling is on Dumbledore’s sexual orientation.”
Best Scene From The Office Last Week
October 21st, 2007
Filtering Revisited
October 21st, 2007John Woolfolk - “A decade after San Jose rejected blocking access to sexually explicit material on library computers, a city councilman says it’s time to reconsider that decision.”
More From Howard Bashman
October 20th, 2007He says: “Last week was the first instance in this blog’s more than five-year existence that the Chief Clerk of Court (or anyone affiliated with any appellate court, federal or state) ever called on this blog to take down from the internet a decision that the court itself had posted to the internet at an [...]
Shel Israel Wants Your Input
October 20th, 2007He asks, “What is the future of the American library as you know it?”
More on Montana State Library
October 20th, 2007AP - “Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Thursday that his “blood pressure went up” when he learned of the library’s plans, which call for phasing out “services associated with the library as public space.”
Library Confidential
October 20th, 2007Samantha Booth reviews the new book by Don Borchert
Heck No, We Won’t Go
October 20th, 2007Katie Hafner - “Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they were put off by restrictions these companies wanted to place on the new digital collections.”
So Much For Privacy
October 20th, 2007Vanessa Miller - “The Boulder Valley School District is standing behind high school administrators after the American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday accused them of “committing felonies” by seizing students’ cell phones, reading their text messages and making transcripts.” (via)
RSS Filtering
October 19th, 2007Steve Matthews - “As I’ve said before, RSS technology is at its best when used as a filtering tool.”
Howard Bashman, journalist
October 19th, 2007The BLT has more on the Howard Bashman story.
NYT on Bookmooch
October 19th, 2007Joanne Kaufman - “BookMooch now has 40,000 members around the world, according to Mr. Buckman, and people are joining at a rate of 300 a day. Participants create an inventory (the books they want to give away) and a wish list (the books they want to own). The “library” has some 750,000 titles, and Mr. [...]
More Cool Bookshelves
October 19th, 2007Michael Lieberman - “Each book gets a box - the rest is up to you.”
Best. News. Of. The. Week.
October 19th, 2007Flickr
Stayin’ Alive
October 19th, 2007Well, it looks like the Montana State Library is not “closing”. See also.
Bloggers Rule
October 18th, 2007Howard Bashman (The guy behind How Appealing, a must read for all law librarians, IMO), grabbed a decision before the court took it offline. He then uploaded it to his own blogs server. The court called him, asking him to take it down. Howard apparently said no as the link is still [...]
Unshelved…
October 18th, 2007…the interview.
Fish4Info….
October 18th, 2007…launches today.
Closing The Law Libraries
October 17th, 2007Calvin Godfrey - “The county is closing law libraries faster than whorehouses.”
Sue The Libraries
October 17th, 2007Andrew Brown - “Why hasn’t the Recording Industry Association of America sued a library yet”
Hey Dave, Over Here!
October 17th, 2007Dave Winer - “The metadata is generated by librarians, and we don’t as yet have our own librarians in the blogosphere (though some might disagree).”
Dave used NYT taxonomy to create a list of popular keywords and phrases used behind their articles. The list is updated once an hour.
Dave’s a great guy. [...]