Archive for December, 2008
Itineraries – Internet Use Grows at Meetings, as Do Challenges
December 30th, 2008NYTimes.com – “Until recently, travelers attending conferences or trade shows had simple Internet needs. They would check e-mail messages and maybe look up information on the Web or connect to the home office.”
Author of best seller about Dewey the library cat turns the page with new tabby
December 30th, 2008AP – “Vicki Myron intended to wait a year or two before getting another cat.”
Why Your Facebook Profile Isn’t Really Yours
December 30th, 2008Advertising Age – “Facebook has ticked off various constituencies over the years with its various new-product introductions and policies, but recently it has pushed the button of one group that advertisers have learned are a force to be reckoned with: online moms. Specifically, in this case, lactivists — or breast-feeding advocates.”
D.C. Libraries: Homeless Shelters No More?
December 30th, 2008Raw Fisher – “Among all the troubles that plague Washington’s libraries, the #1 reason many people steer clear of the places is that they have been permitted to become de facto day centers for the homeless, many of whom find the libraries a convenient and all too welcoming places to get warm, sleep and pass [...]
Advocates for Homeless Object to New D.C. Library Rules
December 29th, 2008NewsChannel 8 – “Among the changes, they will be removing the X-ray machine at the entrance of the Martin Luther King Jr. branch. Stovall says it can be “disconcerting and intimidating” to visitors. There’s also a ban on sleeping, lying or placing heads on tables and floors. In addition, people can only bring two bags [...]
Protestors Try To Block Library Closings In Court, Heckle Mayor
December 29th, 2008MyFox Philadelphia – “As library advocates went to court to stop Philadelphia from shutting down branches, the mayor delivered some good news to several communities.”
Report: Information Overload Costs U.S. $900B
December 29th, 2008InternetNews – “Every year, research firm Basex calculates the cost of information overload and the numbers keep going up by a staggering amount. For 2008, Basex estimates information overload cost the U.S. economy $900 billion in lost productivity. For 2006, that figure was $588 billion.”
Tony Hillerman Library
December 29th, 2008…a set on Flickr
From the Mayor of Albuquerque, who has a Flickr account.
Dylan Quote 3
December 29th, 2008Dylan Quote 3
Originally uploaded by kissthesun
Librarian’s New Year’s resolution: Find missing books
December 29th, 2008The Daily Herald – “Maury County Reference Librarian Adam Southern may need to use some tips from the detective books in the Maury County Library if he is to keep his New Year’s resolution.”
The MLA meets
December 29th, 2008Jacket Copy – “More than 10,000 literature scholars are in San Francisco for the 124th annual Modern Language Assn. (MLA) convention.”
The Five Worst Album Covers of 2008:
December 29th, 2008From DC9 At Night. Ok, the REM album cover is odd, but the album still rocked.
Hundreds Attend Reopening of Main Library in Josephine County
December 29th, 2008Library Journal – “Some 500 people attended the reopening December 20 of the main library in Josephine County, OR, one of four that closed in May 2007 after the loss of federal timber payments. Organizers of the nonprofit Josephine Community Libraries (JCLI) have raised $369,462 (as of December from residents to begin reopening the [...]
The Fake 20th Century Fox Twitter
December 29th, 2008/Film – “While everyone on Twitter was bitching and complaining about the Fox/Warner Bros Watchmen legal mess, someone asked out loud if Fox was ever going to create a twitter account.”
Nutter’s new plan to save the libraries: let non-profits and the private sector run them
December 29th, 2008Philadelphia Inquirer – “The city hopes to transfer management of 11 library branches scheduled to be closed in less than three days to private foundations, wealthy individuals, companies and community development corporations, Mayor Nutter said in a press conference today.”
Philadelphia is looking to partner with groups to keep library services
December 29th, 2008metro – “With the city set to close 11 libraries Wednesday, Mayor Michael Nutter announced Monday that the city would preserve after-school programs in those neighborhoods and work on reaching deals with private partners to fund and operate other library services in the closed facilities.”
Would you rather Google than think?
December 28th, 2008Emily Walshe – “Earlier this year, researchers at University College London dispelled the myth that young people are qualitatively different – in aptitudes, attitudes and expectations – from the rest of us when it comes to mining the Internet for information.”
Thanks Ray
Losing librarianship?
December 28th, 2008Family Man Librarian – “Since my job change at the end of September, I’ve noticed that my professional interests and reading habits have shifted quite a bit. In particular I’ve noticed that most of the library blogs to which I’ve subscribed don’t seem as relevant any more. Consequently I’ve unsubscribed from most of them.”
New Addition to LibraryThing Family
December 28th, 2008Congrats Abby!
Parents Just Don’t Understand, The Photo Version.
December 28th, 2008Parents Just Don’t Understand, The Photo Version. (from CollegeHumor)
Talking or Listening
December 28th, 2008Collections 2.0 – “I’ve been Twittering a lot lately; it has kind of taken the wind out of my sails for blogging more in-depth here.”
Interesting. I deleted my Twitter and FriendFeed account and now I’m blogging more. And, of course, more time with the family.
Networking sites face data cost crisis
December 28th, 2008Telegraph – “Dozens of social networking companies could fail next year as digital advertising slows and a new type of dotcom bubble threatens to burst, according to research from consultants Deloitte”
JMS Plays the Guitar
December 28th, 2008I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. Cool!
Tennessee shuts public law libraries
December 28th, 2008Knoxville News Sentinel – “The Tennessee Supreme Court will close its public law libraries Jan. 1 across the state to reduce the costs of storage and updating books. Justice Sharon Lee said the judiciary and lawyers are turning to online versions of the reference books, slowing libraries “walk-in business.”
Hikind Protests Sunday Closure of Area Libraries
December 28th, 2008Bay Ridge Eagle Brooklyn – “Once upon a time, the customer was always right,†Hikind said. “Today, the customer is apparently just plain irrelevant.†Hikind continued, “No one disagrees that difficult choices have to be made in light of the current economic situation, but significant agency operating decisions need to be made in concert with [...]
Publisher Cancels Holocaust Memoir
December 28th, 2008ArtsBeat Blog – “Several Holocaust scholars attacked the story in the blogosphere and in a recent article in The New Republic, noting among other things that it would have been impossible for the pair to meet at a fence because of the camp’s layout.”
Evolving book on academic evolution
December 28th, 2008Peter Suber – “Gideon Burton has started a blog which he hopes will become a book on new media in academic publishing.”
Cuil Fail
December 27th, 2008TechCrunch – “Rival, it never did. The launch of the search engine was nothing but a classic PR trainwreck, with much hype and little to show for. Cuil failed to deliver good enough results to drive anyone to change their search behavior, and quickly became the subject of backlash and criticism because of their poor [...]
California-Suspicious Package at Law Library Just Phone Books
December 27th, 2008News 8 – “The arrival of an unidentified package at the downtown Public Law Library prompted the closure of the road fronting the facility Friday until a bomb squad determined that the box contained phone books.”
FriendFeed Officially a Time Waster as Companies Begin to Block it in the Offices
December 27th, 2008Profy – “The issue of companies blocking access of their employees to certain websites has already been discussed a lot and normally I myself am of opinion that the company can determine what activities it is actually willing to pay its employees for – and browsing social networks or watching porn in the office may [...]
