Mon 28 Nov 2005, 4:37 pm
Well, I am three days late and a dollar short on this one (and Jessamyn West has already posted on this topic), but here goes: I would think that public libraries and Buy Nothing Day should go hand in hand. The idea behind Buy Nothing Day is to opt out of the post-Thanksgiving capitalist orgy, [...]
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Sat 26 Nov 2005, 6:04 pm
From the ask-and-ye-shall-receive department: So just the other day I was griping in this space that our online catalog won’t even do spelling suggestions, let alone the nifty “get more results with fewer keywords” suggestion from eBay. Today in my email is a message from our systems librarian saying that our III catalog, Tiger, has [...]
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Thu 24 Nov 2005, 10:31 pm
Michael Stephens of Tame the Web has an interesting post entitled The Unintended Consequences of Social Software (or Putting Yourself Out There) It is interesting not just because he links to my family photos under “happy times,” (which is sweet) or because he has nice things to say about the Tutt Library Flickr page that [...]
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Tue 22 Nov 2005, 9:36 pm
The post, eBay’s “fewer words” search from Jason on Signal vs. Noise struck a chord with me. He points out that when searching multiple words on eBay, if your search isn’t successful, eBay will show you how many hits you might get if you removed one or more words from your search (see my whimsical [...]
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Sun 20 Nov 2005, 7:08 pm
My trading card …is put together my own librarian trading card at flagrantdisregard’s Flickr Toys and post it to the Librarian Trading Cards pool on Flickr. I first spotted this meme de jour at Library Stuff, and the next thing I knew, a mephistophelean Michael Stephens was staring at me on my Flickr contacts’ photos. [...]
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Thu 17 Nov 2005, 11:20 pm
I gave a new presentation on RSS/Atom feeds today as part of our Library Lunch & Learn series. I had about ten people there, mostly College staff, with a few library folks and students thrown in. None of them were using feeds coming in–some had first heard about them from my announcement on the campus [...]
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Tue 15 Nov 2005, 4:05 pm
Keep Up! Workshop Packet Originally uploaded by libraryman. Well, I had just been blabbing about how I’d like to do a “keeping up” session for librarians at next year’s Colorado Association of Libraries conference, and now Libraryman has pre-emptively kicked my ass. You can’t get all the schwag in the photo unless you attend the [...]
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Sat 12 Nov 2005, 11:28 am
The Audience at "Teach an Old Blog New Tricks" Here is the excited audience of Colorado Librarians listening to me! Edited to add: I feel like the session went quite well; we had somewhere around 50 or 60 people there. None of my fears about internet or projector problems came true. I think I was [...]
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Fri 11 Nov 2005, 10:56 pm
Shelley Walchak of CLiC gave a great intro to blogs and blogging to an SRO crowd, and she kept right on going with the offline version of her presentation when the internet connection conked out–blog on, indeed! (You can bet that I immediately started double-checking the offline version of my presentation.) She concentrated on Blogger, [...]
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Fri 11 Nov 2005, 8:34 pm
George Jaramillo and David Domenico, of Colorado State University, showed a short, speculative film about a future Amazon/Google Goliath called “Googlezon” as a catalyst for audience discussion afterward. The discussion was pretty wide-ranging and interesting, with many in the audience quite concerned about authority and accuracy in the world of networked information. I met two [...]
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Fri 11 Nov 2005, 1:01 pm
OK, I said I wasn’t going to blog CAL2005 to death, but I did take some notes during today’s first session on online information literacy instruction. See my notes after the jump. In other news, my camera battery is inexplicably dead, so photos will have to wait until tomorrow. Tags: library, cal2005, information_literacy, tutorial, academic
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Wed 9 Nov 2005, 10:10 pm
As I mentioned earlier, I will be presenting at the Colorado Association of Libraries conference on Saturday, along with my colleagues Gwen Gregory and Robin Satterwhite. Our talk is called Teach an Old Blog New Tricks and is designed to encourage librarians to go beyond thinking of blogs as links-plus-commentary or online journals, and think [...]
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Wed 9 Nov 2005, 12:08 pm
This Friday and Saturday, I’ll be at the Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL) 2005 conference in Denver. If you are there too, keep an eye out for me, and please say “hi.” I won’t be blogging this conference to death like I did for Internet Librarian, but I will be lugging the laptop along, and [...]
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Mon 7 Nov 2005, 10:56 pm
Just as I was beginning to forget about ALA President Michael Gorman, he shows up in my aggravator, er, aggregator again. First with the quotes in the Wall Street Journal article (see also the commentary on ACRLog and CopyCense [via librarian.net]), and now with his address to the CLA as covered by Librarian in Black [...]
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Thu 3 Nov 2005, 7:17 am
Today, Google Print begins returning results for full scans of public domain books from the Library Project portion of Google Print. There may be an easier way to find these books, but I found them by going to the advanced print search and entering appropriate dates in the “publication dates” fields (say 1500 to 1930). [...]
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Wed 2 Nov 2005, 10:27 pm
As you probably know by now, Michael Stephens of Tame the Web is doing a survey called Who are “the Blog People?” A Survey of Librarians and their Motivations for Blogging. It’s part of his Ph.D. research, and should make an interesting compliment to the work already done by Meredith Farkas at Information Wants to [...]
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