Archive for December, 2007
Two More Years of Bashman
December 31st, 2007Great news from Howard Bashman
More on Free Access to Public Records
December 31st, 2007Meg Hayden (Electronic Resources Librarian, Mass. Trial Court Law Libraries) writes:
“I thought you’d like to know that the public law librarians here in Mass. have been working to put our own cases online– http://www.lawlib.state.ma.us/2007/12/massachusetts-cases-online.html. We’re adding over 100 cases per day, and currently have 10,000 cases available at the site. There is no [...]
Web Playgrounds of the Very Young
December 30th, 2007New York Times – “Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set.”
That could totally be Hallie in that picture. Any libraries doing WebKinz stuff?
20 Most Noteworthy R.E.M. Events of 2007
December 30th, 2007From REMRing.
This is, by far, the coolest one on the list. And possibly the greatest. thing. eva! (via)
(non) truth in advertising
December 30th, 2007(non) truth in advertising
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Public Records Wire
December 30th, 2007Public Records Wire – “An open system for cataloging, sharing and discovering new public records databases. The system promotes the databases that are most used and voted upon with the goal of enhancing overall quality of public records databases.”
Public records databases and tagging. Who would have thunk it? (via)
Going After the DMCA
December 30th, 2007FoxTrot is hilarious today
Corporate library use of blogs and RSS
December 30th, 2007Some stats via an SLA blog. (via)
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December 30th, 2007IMG_7336
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Who The Frack??!!
December 30th, 2007Paul R. Pival – “Who the frack consults television and radio? What does that even mean? Do people seriously have a specific question or problem and attempt to seek out a show of some sort to answer their information need? Yikes!”
Oprah maybe?
JK Rowling drops hints…
December 30th, 2007…of an 8th HP book.
g-d help us all!
Pew Internet: Libraries Report
December 30th, 2007Lee Rainie sent me a note on Friday with a mention that this report was coming out today. Consider it linked.
Reason #358: Why Librarians Are Needed
December 30th, 2007Selling what’s free.
How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time
December 30th, 2007New York Times – “WERE Henry Ford brought back to life today, he would most likely be delighted by the Internet: the uninhibited way many people express themselves on the Web makes it easy to supervise the private lives of employees.”
Librarian Idol – Adelaide
December 30th, 2007Librarian Idol – Adelaide
Originally uploaded by andrewthelibrarian
A new CD for R.E.M.?
December 30th, 2007Music to our ears
Unfortunately Named Librarians?
December 28th, 2007Michael Golrick – “I’m wondering if there is a list of unfortunately named librarians?”
I don’t know of any. Readers?
Twitstat.com
December 27th, 2007Real Time Twitter Analytics
I have to look at this more closely. Looks…well, interesting.
Nominate Your Favorite Blogs For LISNews 10 Blogs To Read in 2008
December 27th, 2007Let’s have the debate again. My favorite part is when the winners fail to thank those that vote for them. Let’s see if that happens this year…
More on Twitter
December 27th, 2007Dan York – The 10 ways I learned to use Twitter in 2007…
From Scoble’s shared links. Do yourself a favor and make him a friend in Google Talk. He reads and shares the best stuff. Plus, he’s a classy guy.
What Are you Doing For New Years
December 27th, 2007How about reading Twelve resolutions for the New Year at your library?
Documents of Library in Boston to Go on Web
December 27th, 2007I love articles that start off like this: – “The historical record of the United States government will soon be more accessible.”
Good times people. Good times.
Robotic Book Storage System
December 27th, 2007Some pics of the new feature at the U of U library.
No print tax forms 4 u!
December 27th, 2007An odd decision by the Oklahoma Tax Commission.
I guess the digital divide really is dead.
Google on Managing your shared items
December 27th, 2007They’ve made some changes. Hopefully, this will satisfy everyone, but probably not.
More on Late Fees
December 26th, 2007Tongue in Cheek blog post? – “Good for those librarians, teaching people not to take them for granted! They put up with so much between the loud-talkers and the book vandals, they should play hardball.”
This story really is taking off. It could be good PR if spun the right way. Kami, David, how [...]
Wikipedia:School and university projects
December 26th, 2007An impressive entry:
“If you are a professor or teacher at a school or university, we encourage you to use Wikipedia in your class to demonstrate how an open content website works (or doesn’t). You are not the first person to do so, and many of these projects have resulted in both advancing the student’s knowledge [...]
2008: Year of Information Overload?
December 26th, 2007I have always thought that Information Overload doesn’t exist. Stephen Abram has his views on IO and special librarians.
YA Peeps
December 26th, 2007Village Voice – “Meet the East Village “It” Couple of Young-Adult Lit”
Luring Teens
December 26th, 2007Blake Carver thinks the word makes libraries sound “creepy”. Heh
