Archive for July, 2006

Been there, done that

Mon 31 Jul 2006, 9:49 am

No doubt you have already seen the Library 2.0 Idea Generator over at Dave Pattern’s weblog. I don’t see what the big deal is: I just keep reloading the darn thing trying to find an idea I haven’t already done:

disenfranchise Stephen Abram and attain Library 2.0 Nirvana overnight (check!)
introduce your Baby Boomer colleagues and then [...]

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Solvitur Ambulando

Sun 30 Jul 2006, 10:13 am

I see from a pair of links in the post Why it matters from Dorothea Salo at Caveat Lector that Bess Sadler is blogging at Solvitur Ambulando*

Bess is my wife’s cousin, and while I can’t claim to know her very well, I can say that I’m excited at the prospect of her blogging. She’s a [...]

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You are ALA – The American Library Association’s newest contact!

Mon 24 Jul 2006, 11:57 am

This is new to me: ALA is on Flickr. We got this in our library email box today:

Hi Colorado College Tutt Library,

You are ALA – The American Library Association’s newest
contact! If you don’t know ALA – The American Library
Association, ALA – The [...]

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Cheating with another blog

Fri 14 Jul 2006, 9:38 am

Edited 2006-07-24: I have no more invites. The ones I had are all gone. Any “refills” I get in the future I plan to send out to people I already know, either in real life, or from online.

Edited 2006-07-19: Sorry, I wasn’t very clear about something. Anyone can look at my Vox blog (or anyone [...]

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Survey Survey

Fri 7 Jul 2006, 11:31 pm

Recent publication number one: With my friend, colleague, and occasional commenter on this very blog, Jessy Randall, I recently published a “humorous” “survey” in the “journal” American Drivel Review. It’s worth publishing something there just to have “American Drivel Review” on my list of publications.

The ADR allows authors to keep copyright as a matter of [...]

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Women and technology and libraries and blogs

Mon 3 Jul 2006, 11:10 am

K.G. Schneider asks 2.0: Where are the women? and Dorothea Salo and Karen Coombs chimed in.

As your average white guy, I don’t have a good answer, and some of the answers that I have come up with sound like excuses, so I won’t offer them here. I’ll just say that yes, I’d like to hear [...]

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First Day on the Somme, ninety years ago today

Sat 1 Jul 2006, 4:10 pm

As the English curse their World Cup exit today, the historically-minded can get a bit of perspective by remembering that this is the 90th anniversary of the the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.

This Guardian Review article, 'We go tomorrow ', by Mark Bostridge, reminded me of this anniversary, and [...]

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