Fri 26 May 2006, 10:01 pm
Library folks, whether you use social software or not, go take Michael Stephens’ survey at Tame the Web. All the cool kids are doing it. And the uncool kids (I did it). So, I guess, everyone is doing it. So do it. But don’t do it twice. It’s like voting in that way.
Read the full postComments? (None yet)
Fri 26 May 2006, 8:34 pm
Walt Crawford recently offered an “apology” of sorts on his blog Walt at Random for being the only person that the Library 2.0 proponents tend to cite as a Library 2.0 critic or skeptic. His January 2006 survey of the state of “Library 2.0 and ‘Library 2.0′” (link to pdf or html; it’s long, so [...]
Read the full postComments? 5
Mon 22 May 2006, 12:29 pm
Library 2.0 formula There has been a fair amount of talk about “radical trust” in the biblioblogosphere lately. If you need to catch up, the starting point seems to be Darlene Fichter’s Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Radical Trust: A First Take, followed by those who link to that post. Much of that conversation has [...]
Read the full postComments? (None yet)
Mon 22 May 2006, 9:43 am
Casey Bisson at IUG 2006 in Denver I had the pleasure of hearing Casey Bisson present on his Web 2.0 OPAC, the WordPress-powered front end he put on his III catalog. His talk rehearsed a lot of what are coming to be articles of faith in the biblioblogosphere (the need to dis-integrate the catalog, the [...]
Read the full postComments? (None yet)
Fri 19 May 2006, 12:02 pm
A few notes on catalogs before attending the Innovative Users Group meeting in Denver.
Read the full postComments? (None yet)
Wed 17 May 2006, 11:25 am
My library director, Carol, emailed us all a link to this wonderful Chronicle of Higher Education profile of Davidson College‘s library director, Leland M. Park. He is retiring from the college after 31 years as director (and more years than that with the college from which he graduated in 1963). By all accounts Park is [...]
Read the full postComments? (None yet)
Sun 14 May 2006, 2:36 pm
Michael McGrorty has posted a longish essay to his blog, Library Dust entitled Technology, Books and the Librarian. The essay is a consideration of the place of the library and the librarian as we look toward the future. I won’t summarize the whole thing; you should read it yourself in full. But let’s just say [...]
Read the full postComments? (None yet)
Fri 12 May 2006, 12:17 pm
No doubt you have seen Pope Michael Gorman’s latest pronouncement. The one about yipping and yawping “millenniarist librarians” (whatever that means) and “pseudo-librarians” who offend the Great Leader so much with our blogs and computing devices and rock and roll music (or something). You can read the entire column on Gorman’s (ahem) website–I guess it [...]
Read the full postComments? 2
Thu 11 May 2006, 3:16 pm
Two weeks ago, Michael Sauers said I was a “Second Life n00b” (or newbie, or clueless new guy) and oh, was he ever on target. Here’s a shot from my misadventures last night at the Second Life Library 2.0. Yes, that is my avatar, Hatchibombotar Stein, with a Bible on his head. Planetneutral (aka Greg) [...]
Read the full postComments? (None yet)
Wed 10 May 2006, 12:21 am
I have been thinking about online conferences lately, prompted by my recent participation in HigherEd BlogCon (HEBC) and Steven Bell’s post Sure I’d Attend The ACRL Virtual Conference – If It Was Free at ACRLog (the sentiment expressed in the post title isn’t Steven’s: it is what he is responding to). I left a comment [...]
Read the full postComments? (None yet)
Mon 8 May 2006, 12:37 pm
A few little Gmail hacks make managing high-volume email lists much more pleasant.
Read the full postComments? 4
Fri 5 May 2006, 9:18 pm
So how did it go? Pretty good, I guess. Bad RSS-withdrawal pains on Saturday and Monday, lessening as the week went on. A lingering sense that I was “out of the loop.” Some agonizing slow hours on the reference desk. But nothing worse. I read a whole entire book (the quite good Black Swan Green, [...]
Read the full postComments? 4
Browse the complete archives
Browse the complete archives, plus favorite posts, comments, and generally more stuff than you really want.
The views and opinions represented in this website are mine, and in no way reflect the opinions or views of my employer or its employees. Duh.