Visiting the Denver Zine Library
Tue 31 Jul 2007, 10:33 pm
I visited the excellent Denver Zine Library with my colleagues Lisa and Jessy.
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Archive for July, 2007
Happy SysAdmin Day
Fri 27 Jul 2007, 1:05 pm
Happy SysAdmin day to Blake, LISHost, and all y’all sysadmins who keep the tubes clear.
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Harry Potter and the Pirated Torrents
Thu 19 Jul 2007, 11:17 pm
The supposed pirate copies of the new Harry Potter book had me re-reading Robert Darnton on book piracy in 18th century France.
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The O'Reilly Radar blog takes a look at the downward trend in circulation and reference questions at ARL libraries. Interesting comments from all angles, including a hectoring librarian. (via corplibrarian/LSW)
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Anil Dash: toread is tobehuman
Dash: "But the reason ‘toread’ is profound is because it’s the biggest tag in an invisible tag cloud that surrounds us all…. Aside from those quiet desires that lurk inside us, though, there is something simple and beautiful about the desire to come b
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Summer video series at my library
Fri 6 Jul 2007, 4:07 pm
Thanks to Michael Sauers‘ suggestion in his comment on my post about the documentary Good Copy Bad Copy, we have done a brown bag lunch and video screening the past two weeks at my library. Both times we have had a nice mix of attendees from the library, academic technology, and the writing center. Last [...]
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More thoughts on Facebook
Thu 5 Jul 2007, 5:04 pm
In writing that previous post about Facebook, I had a few other thoughts that didn’t really fit. I have collected them here. Privacy and the Facebook feed Facebook users are familiar with the news feed of what is going on with their friends. In general, when your Facebook friends make updates to their profile, you [...]
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Facebook to library apps: drop dead
Tue 3 Jul 2007, 10:13 pm
Update, 2007-07-05: Ken Varnum’s comment on this post indicates that Facebook can change its decision on these kinds of apps with some patient explanation on the library’s part. It’s not clear to me if we can interpret this as a green light, or just a single happy outcome. [Note: some of the links in this [...]
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