Tue 27 Jun 2006, 3:35 pm
“Sorry guys, but you can’t skate here” sez me to the two kids skateboarding outside our modernist concrete skater’s paradise of a library. Them: “Aw, why not?” Me: “Because we don’t want your parents to sue us when you break your neck, and because you are making too much noise for the people inside studying.” [...]
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Mon 26 Jun 2006, 11:59 pm
This year I continued my fairly recent tradition of skipping ALA. I don’t regret missing the conference, but I do regret having to pass up several invitations to get together over a beer (or a hurricane; do they still serve those in New Orleans? I’d expect the name seems less cute since Katrina) with old [...]
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Mon 26 Jun 2006, 11:07 pm
A few months back, there were a fair number of biblioblogospherical posts about signage in libraries, most of it showing negative examples, and much of it around signs regarding cell phone use in the library. At my library, we have a “no cell phones” policy, but it isn’t all that effective (you are shocked, I [...]
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Thu 15 Jun 2006, 10:19 am
Edited to fix the paragraph beginning “My point is, the vendors..,” as I had left some words out, making the meaning the opposite of what I intended. Oops. In The problem with the “ILS Bill of Rights”, Dan Chudnov takes ILS complainers (like me, I suppose, though his title refers back to John Blyberg’s ILS [...]
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Tue 13 Jun 2006, 11:32 am
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog, The Wired Campus notes that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says that Wikipedia isn’t great for academic use. Great quote: “For God sake, you’re in college; don’t cite the encyclopedia.” But I’m using that little semi-relevant link as an intro to how much I lurve Wikipedia. Today, I looked up [...]
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Mon 12 Jun 2006, 10:33 pm
Wow, what a cool blog! Bibliodyssey, which just came to my attention thanks to boingboing, is so visually rich, I don’t know that I have read a word of it, so busy have I been looking at the images. Each entry features one or more scans of illustrations or book pages. This one comes from [...]
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Mon 12 Jun 2006, 11:41 am
Apparently inspired by our exchange in the comments on A biblioblogger visits the local branch library, K.G. Schneider, my favorite gay, Christian, left-handed, MFA student / blogger / librarian / gadfly, has come up with a nice new piece of flair: You can put it on your blog, or the home page of your institution [...]
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Wed 7 Jun 2006, 9:25 pm
If you know who shameless self-promoter and alpha geek Cory Doctorow is, and/or you read boingboing, you may find the little skit Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack funny. I know that I did. (If you don’t know who he is, skip it. It’s one big inside joke.) As soon as I read it, I [...]
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Wed 7 Jun 2006, 11:22 am
I have blogged about edublogger Stephen Downes before (see my posts The read/write web in academe and Online Learning Daily on Hiatus). One of the things I like about reading his Online Learning Daily blog is that just when I feel like I know where he is coming from, he challenges me a little more. [...]
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Fri 2 Jun 2006, 2:52 pm
I have a bunch of posts cooling their heels in The Long Queue. Posts that will change the way you think about conferences, library catalogs, signage, etc. (Well, maybe they won’t change the way you think about those things. But I have high hopes for them.) But today, I have two little observations of library [...]
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Thu 1 Jun 2006, 1:35 pm
Anyone have ideas for analyzing Trillian IM logs?
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