Archive for September, 2008
Powerpoint from RSS presentation
September 30th, 2008Jason Puckett - “Here are the slides from my presentation at Saturday’s Atlanta Emerging Librarians meeting, on “RSS Tools For Emerging Librarians.”
Banned books: from feel-good to dangerous
September 30th, 2008Jacket Copy - “The British newspaper the Guardian, which has absolutely wonderful book coverage, has a post inspired by Banned Books Week here in America.”
Librarian: No ‘typical day
September 30th, 2008Pioneer Press - “I felt like I was really selling out. I had an MBA from the University of Minnesota and an undergraduate degree in marketing from Indiana University and worked in marketing and advertising trying to make pizza more affordable,” York-Erwin said Thursday afternoon. “It just wasn’t feeding my soul.”
David Rothman has had a heart attack
September 30th, 2008David Rothman (E-book guy) has had a heart attack. Feel better, my friend.
ISPs: We Swear, We Won’t Watch Your Every Move
September 28th, 2008Channel Web - “Responding to increasing Internet privacy concerns, AT&T (NYSE:T), Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and Time Warner (NYSE:TWX), the country’s largest ISPs, told a Senate committee during a hearing Thursday that they don’t engage in online consumer tracking and want to self-regulate such practices in the future.”
Read the prepared statements here.
Authors take stand against calls to ban their work
September 27th, 2008Chicago Tribune - “The penguins are so controversial that some want their story banned from the shelves of libraries and schools.”
More signal, less noise
September 23rd, 2008Phil Bradley - “One of the things that I’m often asked is ‘how do you keep up to date?’
The Sheriff
September 22nd, 2008LSW Merch
Originally uploaded by joshua m. neff
Calling all developers: WorldCat Hackathon
September 22nd, 2008It’s all good - “If you’re a coder-type or want to hang out with some and brainstorm some great ideas/write some great code, come to the WorldCat Hackathon”
Local librarian declares epic fail.
September 22nd, 2008the strange librarian - “How am i supposed to keep my staff up to date when the stuff i want to send them isn’t online? My staff is spread out throughout the state and i can’t just pass around a print journal for them to take a gander at. I need links, people!”
There’ll Be Some Changes Made
September 22nd, 2008Annoyed Librarian - “Also, the AL will have something of a milestone next month. The AL will finally be in print.”
Also, getting paid to blog. Very cool. I’m a big fan of AL. He/She deserves all the best.
The perils of audiobooks
September 22nd, 2008Jacket Copy - “Maybe it’s because I like reading printed words so much, but I find myself persnickety about audiobooks. Even those that are free — some LibriVox recordings of works in the public domain are marvelous (I’m a big fan of one reader from Florida), but others are severely lacking.”
Are You There Obama? It’s Me, Judy Blume
September 22nd, 2008New York Observer - “Attention political strategists: don’t forget to court the Young Adult (YA) writing community.”
Students misuse library
September 22nd, 2008Famunan - “It makes me mad because other people can be doing more important stuff,” Nolis said.
Eyeing ‘e-books’ for future law students
September 22nd, 2008NLJ - “Law professors and publishing executives plan to meet later this month in Seattle to discuss how legal casebooks could be made available electronically on a widespread basis, particularly on new handheld devices such as Kindle and Sony Reader Digital Book.”
Library to digitise Middle English manuscripts
September 22nd, 2008Crain’s Manchester Business - “The University of Manchester’s John Rylands University Library is to digitise its internationally renowned collection of more than 40 Middle English manuscripts, making some of the world’s greatest medieval literary riches available on the internet”
Reading Online is Not Reading On Paper
September 22nd, 2008Weblogg-ed - “In fact, I’ve made myself take time over the last few months to read longer texts, and after plowing through three really, really engaging and challenging novels in the past month or so, I’m feeling like my brain is back in gear somehow”
pirate quiz - Arrrgh!
September 21st, 2008pirate quiz
Originally uploaded by Canton Public Library (MI)
Who ever heard of a librarian who didn’t say ‘Sssshhh’?
September 21st, 2008Katy Guest - “It is a spectacularly bad piece of timing by those whose job should be to spin these things: just as the sexy librarian look finally became popular, the role of the classic librarian as we know and love it is being ruthlessly compromised.”
Jennifer Garner wanted to be librarian, author
September 21st, 2008Access Hollywood - “My mom took my sisters and me to the library once a week when we were kids,” she continued. “And it’s such a huge community center, especially in a town that has very few resources — to have a place with 100 computers and Internet access to everyone for free, that’s really [...]
PrintWhatYouLike: Make Any Web Page Printer Friendly:
September 21st, 2008Technology Bites - “Printwhatyoulike.com is a useful service to save ink while printing web pages. With this tool you can print any web page by removing unnecessary elements with mouse clicks.”
Very cool. I tried it out and it works very well. Into the 130 tools in 160 minutes presentation it goes.
Public libraries open way for drinks, snacks and mobiles
September 21st, 2008Times Online - “For more than 150 years librarians have ruled their domain ruthlessly, scolding patrons for raising their voices and ensuring that they adhere to the strictest social etiquette. Their reign is now over”
The Cohens - September 2008
September 21st, 2008
Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds
September 21st, 2008NYT - "To save you some time, I was going to give you a 100-word abridged version. But there are just too many distractions to read that much. So here is the 140-character Twitter version"
Please Don’t Read These Books
September 21st, 2008In a library…
Originally uploaded by Aaron | Dan
I sign we cal all like.
Restricted Reading: A Tale of Two Bobs:
September 21st, 2008Polenth’s Quill - “It’s something parents should watch out for. You never know who might try to stop your children and teens from reading. It could be the very people who’re supposed to encourage them.”
Reading is fundamental, Gov. Palin
September 21st, 2008Leonard Pitts Jr: - “So do us all a favor: Annoy Sarah Palin. For goodness’ sake, read.”
In uncertain times, networking can protect your career
September 21st, 2008Salt Lake Tribune - “Most career experts advise that one of the best steps you can take to ensure your career stays on track - whether you are laid off or not - is to network. In the end, they say, it’s often who you know that helps get you a job.”
That’s exactly how I [...]
The Best Mind of His Generation
September 21st, 2008A.O. Scott on David Foster Wallace
Liberating London’s Libraries:
September 20th, 2008Londonist - “Libraries are getting sexed up.”