Sat 30 Dec 2006, 11:12 pm
Edited 2007-01-01: This was the last post on the old site. The title should now read “this blog has moved.”
So here is the important announcement I mentioned in the previous post: this is probably the last post I will do on See Also… this year, and it is probably the last post to this [...]
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Sat 30 Dec 2006, 8:11 pm
Iris tagged me for the “5 things you don’t know about me” meme.
While it is an honor to be tagged, my feelings about this particular meme are summed up in the accompanying Venn diagram. There’s just no overlap right now between the things that I haven’t hitherto shared but am willing to share now and [...]
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librarian.net ยป Slow Library, a 2.0 idea
Jessamyn has several links around the “Slow Library Movement,” apparently a call to take a more deliberate approach to Library 2.0.
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Tue 26 Dec 2006, 7:03 pm
CueCat, Mirrormask librarian, and LucienOriginally uploaded by Hatchibombotar.
Going back to before we were married, my wife, Shanon, and I have several times given each other the same gift (wind chimes, juggling balls, etc.). It’s kind of like “The Gift of the Magi,” but without the irony; all sweet, no bitter. We did it again this [...]
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Academic Library Futures – December 15, 2006 – Library Journal
“For example, how about a desktop or web application that would enable faculty and students to not only find information more easily but also capture, organize, and manage it and output it in various forms? Wouldn’t academic libraries rush to site license
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Pegasus Librarian: eReserves: Blessing or Curse?
“So the upshot is that printing is a definite problem, but the answer isn’t as simple as, ‘Well, with the advent of eReserves printing went through the roof….’”
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Tue 19 Dec 2006, 10:09 pm
When I last wrote about Casey Bisson’s apparent plan to use the money from his Mellon award to pay for Library of Congress catalog records which he would then turn around and make freely available, you will recall that I was scratching my head a bit. Can he do that? And if he does, so [...]
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explodedlibrary.info: librarian reactions to the taser incident in UCLA’s Powell Library
I, too, was surprised that more bloggers didn’t write about this. Police hitting patrons multiple times with a taser isn’t very “library 2.0.”
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Mon 11 Dec 2006, 8:52 pm
So Google Answers tanks while Ask MetaFilter thrives. Why’s that?
According to Anil Dash, it is partly because MetaFilter was already a thriving community site when AskMeFi debuted, but also because it is moderated wisely by site owner Matt Haughey and his very able assistant, Jessamyn West. And, sez Dash,
Just as importantly, Jessamyn is [...]
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Mon 11 Dec 2006, 11:37 am
Time to expose my ignorance. That’s what blogs are for, right?
So we all know that Casey Bisson’s awesomeness has been institutionally confirmed and rewarded.
Subsequent to that announcement, I have now seen at least three blog posts (librarian.net, the goblin in the library, and Thing-ology) talking about Bisson’s plan to buy LC catalog records and release [...]
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Sun 10 Dec 2006, 8:40 pm
See Also… and the other Tutt Library blogs are on Movable Type. This is mostly by default; when I first started Bookends and my old personal blog on the College’s academic technology server, that is what was already installed. When we decided to upgrade, they didn’t have PHP running on college servers yet, so WordPress [...]
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Sat 9 Dec 2006, 10:00 pm
I was thinking about this quote that I pulled from danah boyd’s Friends, Friendsters and Top 8 in my post of yesterday:
While most participants surf the site through the networks themselves, most newcomers and non-participants use the search feature and are absolutely horrified by what they may see.
And I felt a certain [...]
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Sat 9 Dec 2006, 12:10 am
Those of you who are interested in this kind of thing have no doubt already seen danah boyd’s latest article on MySpace and similar social network sites, Friends, Friendsters and Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites, which appears in the latest issue of First Monday. Below are my notes, so if [...]
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Tue 5 Dec 2006, 9:10 pm
I got word from the Macintosh shop today that our computer–a PowerMac G4 that my father was kind enough to give us when he last upgraded his machine–is toast. And it is my fault.
Let’s keep a sad, stupid story short, and just say that if you have a computer like that, you should–every now and [...]
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Mon 4 Dec 2006, 9:28 pm
It’s a good day for the OPAC today, as Casey Bisson takes home a Mellon Award for his work on the WPopac; that’s the WordPress front-end on an Innovative Interfaces catalog, described by Casey in his post WPopac: An OPAC 2.0 Testbed.
In other OPAC news, Library Thing impresario Tim Spalding has a nice post on [...]
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