Fri 24 Feb 2006, 10:53 pm
…or how keeping up with social software might help with your actual job. A little while back, my friend and colleague Sarah, the Academic Technology Specialist for the Humanities here at CC, asked me if I had any ideas for an art history professor who was looking for software that would enable her students to [...]
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Fri 24 Feb 2006, 1:51 pm
“Speak of the devil and he is bound to appear” has been running through my mind lately. Now that everyone who would like to be anyone on the web has ego feeds set up through Technorati, PubSub, IceRocket, etc., it seems that all one needs to do is name that person and link to him [...]
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Thu 23 Feb 2006, 4:06 pm
It looks like Tim Spalding at LibraryThing is reverse engineering FRBR. That is the thought that leapt to mind, but I felt a little unsure about blogging it, as I’m not an expert in FRBR or in the exact way that LibraryThing is combining different editions into single “works” (as seen in the Invisible Man [...]
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Wed 22 Feb 2006, 11:07 pm
Like many bloggers, I have a text file full of half-finished (half-assed?) blog posts which are, as Dan Traister says about his in-process papers, “in various stages of drafty undress.” Recently I read Andrea Mercado, of Library Techtonics fame, calling her backlog “The Long Queue.” I like that, and will henceforth call my backlog The [...]
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Wed 22 Feb 2006, 10:43 pm
I was in the virtual peanut gallery at this morning’s SirsiDynix Institute Conversation: “The 2.0 Meme – Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Librarian 2.0.” The panel was the Library 2.0 Gang of Four, i.e., Stephen Abram, John Blyberg, Michael Casey, and Michael Stephens. All four men were in good form, sounding the themes that are familiar [...]
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Mon 20 Feb 2006, 9:52 pm
In case you haven’t seen this yet, Michael Stephens of Tame the Web is doing a survey on librarians and instant messaging. It takes five minutes, maybe less, and you should take the survey regardless of whether you or your library uses IM. In the illustration (from my buddy list) we see that Mr. Stephens [...]
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Mon 20 Feb 2006, 2:33 pm
Updated 2006-03-07: I changed the image to link to the new version of the flyer. Make sure and read Stevyn’s comment for the time and place. I don’t know if I’ll be able to make it, but the Denver Zine Library and others are sponsoring the Denver Zine Fest on Saturday March 11 from 10-6 [...]
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Mon 20 Feb 2006, 9:52 am
The Carnival of the Infosciences no. 25 is being hosted this week by Mark Lindner at …the thoughts are broken…. The Carnival was almost broken this week, as Mark got only one submission, and that from yours truly. And today is his birthday! But Mark makes lemonade with a nice collection of links he had [...]
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Sat 18 Feb 2006, 10:17 am
Update 2006-02-26: added Information Today blog to list below and to OPML file I’m not attending Computers in Libraries which is being held March 22-24 in Washington D.C. But I do want to keep up with what is going on there. So I have set up a temporary folder in my RSS reader with the [...]
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Fri 17 Feb 2006, 1:40 pm
All of you who are considering getting your library on MySpace or the Facebook need to watch a very informative video from Daily Show’s “Trendspotter” Demetri Martin. (You might have to scroll down to find the link to the Windows Media video.) Favorite quotes: Besides candy, online networking is the thing young people like the [...]
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Thu 16 Feb 2006, 10:11 pm
Posts that contain "library 2.0" per day for the last 90 days. This may be old news, but I just noticed it. When you do a search on Technorati, part of the results is a graph of “mentions by day” that shows the frequency of occurrence of your search terms over the past 30 days. [...]
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Tue 14 Feb 2006, 8:29 pm
Update (2/22): Overholt has added photos. Now you can see engravings used as an anti-piracy device, watercolors as early paint-by numbers, sloppy printing, and a bookplate of a rotund jester. Thanks, John! Jessy has pointed me to a wonderful blog that I hadn’t seen before: Hyde Collection Catablog, “The world’s greatest Samuel Johnson collection, one [...]
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Tue 14 Feb 2006, 3:38 pm
This card has now become very collectible, as Michael has been traded to Dominican University’s GSLIS I say Michael will “Tame Academe” as a play on his blog’s title, Tame the Web, but if anything, he will be shaking it up. Michael announced today in his post, Reinvention, that he will be leaving his job [...]
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Tue 14 Feb 2006, 7:48 am
At the risk of being extra dorky, I thought of some other lists of four (four more lists, to be exact) that might be fun/illuminating/not horrible. Four intimidating books I haven’t read, but plan to someday, once I finish reading all these comic books graphic novels: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne The Arcades Project by [...]
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Sun 12 Feb 2006, 10:07 pm
I’m getting close to the deadline for that Library 2.0 article for Colorado Libraries that I have mentioned before, and I’m finding it a bit of a challenge to break my habit of writing for the web. I’d like to write a paragraph or two about the current state of the ILS and the online [...]
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Fri 10 Feb 2006, 9:18 pm
I am such a loser. I was doing dishes thinking “No one has tagged me for the ’4 Things’ meme,” and feeling ambivalent–I don’t like chain letters, but I don’t like feeling left out, either. So I hit NetNewsWire to find out that my man Michael Stephens has tagged me. Gosh, I haven’t really thought [...]
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Wed 8 Feb 2006, 11:31 pm
A slide from Ardhana Goel’s presentation at the “Designing Library Experiences for Users” webcast. Tuesday, I attended the Blended Librarian webcast “Designing Library Experiences for Users.” The session was a look at how Maya Design approached a major overhaul of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. [Note: I haven't been able to get through to the [...]
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Wed 8 Feb 2006, 10:29 pm
Best Word Book Ever – When you Grow Up #2 Originally uploaded by kokogiak. Merlin Mann (my own personal guru of the funny-alpha-geek persuasion) of 43 Folders has a nice podcast up titled The Richard Scarry Book of the Future. He talks about vocational training in his public school as a kid, the idea of [...]
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Mon 6 Feb 2006, 11:44 pm
So Walt Crawford did a post the other day about how he composes his blog posts, titled The joys of real-time wordsmithing. I have been meaning to do something along those lines to talk about the tools I use, so here goes. Warning: serious geeking out ahead. TextWrangler I write just about everything in a [...]
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Fri 3 Feb 2006, 5:40 pm
To be literate is to possess the cow of plenty Originally uploaded by Colorado College Tutt Library. People have been throwing around Ranganathan’s five laws of library science so I thought I would take a look at the original. I was pleasantly surprised to see this beautiful design on the cover of the 1931 edition [...]
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Fri 3 Feb 2006, 12:37 pm
The world’s tamest and lamest Facebook page: mine. Last week I did a Library Lunch & Learn presentation on Social Software. “Lunch & Learn” is our weekly series of informal presentations on largely extra-curricular matters with library-provided pizza and soft drinks. I had a pretty good turnout, even including some students which is always nice. [...]
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