Archive for December, 2005

A new twist on videogames in libraries

Thu 22 Dec 2005, 11:23 am

After those recent long posts, I thought we could all use something short and silly. Dig this video (.mov file) from the University of Michigan where Pacman is chased by a ghost (I think it is “Blinky”) through the undergrad library and a computer lab. Funny, I don’t remember Pacman screaming in terror when I [...]

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Pay to play at ALA?

Wed 21 Dec 2005, 1:03 pm

If you read enough library blogs to be aware of See Also, then you have probably seen the recent flurry of activity around Jenny Levine’s recent posts Why I’m Not Joining ALA Right Now After All and her follow-up Continuing Conference Conversations. The main thrust of her post is that it is absurd that she [...]

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2005 Non-Required Reading

Tue 20 Dec 2005, 9:58 pm

I love the year-end lists. (If you love year-end lists, you surely know of the exhaustive annual Fimoculous meta-list). I have put together a little year-end non-required reading list of the library-related stuff I have read this year that has really stuck with me; that I have read and re-read, or recommended to others, or [...]

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Librarian code skillz

Fri 16 Dec 2005, 10:41 pm

Do librarians need to be programmers? As the Simpsons’ Reverend Lovejoy says, “short answer, no with an if; long answer, yes with a but.” This memelet – librarians as coders – has been going around for the past few months. I first saw it when librarian.net linked to Dan Chudnov’s post A new era of [...]

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News flash: library blogger not in habit of sustained reading of complex texts

Mon 12 Dec 2005, 10:58 pm

I have been pretty busy this year (added a son to the family, started this blog, showed up for work most days), but one thing I haven’t been doing much of – to my shame as a librarian – is reading. About a year ago, I gave 43 Things, the social software site for goals [...]

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Housekeeping: RSS changes

Mon 5 Dec 2005, 2:49 pm

Those of you who subscribe to this blog via RSS probably noticed a change yesterday; the main feed for the site now also includes the “link blog” that appears in the right column on the site, and is consists of items in my del.icio.us bookmarks that I tag with see_also. I hope none of you [...]

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Library 2.0 / Library 360 / Library 3-D

Fri 2 Dec 2005, 10:34 am

Some time soon I plan to jump into the Library 2.0 / Web 2.0 fray (I have no idea what it means, but I’m for it! I want my Library 2.0!), but in the meantime, I’m digging TangognaT’s snarky post on Library 360 (which I found via Information Wants to Be Free) The main post [...]

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