Tue 1 Nov 2011, 1:33 pm
My younger son, Nick, is in first grade, which means that homework is still an interesting novelty for him. His class was studying owls for a while, which captured his imagination. He checked out some books from the school library on owls and we read them together. He told his teacher some of the things [...]
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Tue 20 Sep 2011, 2:48 pm
I’m sitting in on (or “embedded in” as we say for some reason in libraryland) a first year experience class at my college. It’s a combination introduction to poetry and history of the English language class, and it’s wonderful, and I expect I’ll tell more later. But for today, limericks. The class had me going [...]
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Wed 31 Aug 2011, 11:10 pm
A philosophy of librarianship? Here are some up-past-my-bedtime thoughts. It’s hard to beat Ranganathan’s Five Laws. They are surprisingly durable and flexible. A librarians’ goal when working with people isn’t to create little librarians, just as a doctor shouldn’t expect patients to become little doctors. The goal is to help people be more mindful, more [...]
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Thu 25 Aug 2011, 2:27 pm
This week, I have seen a lot of discussion around two measures of information literacy. The first is the ERIAL report that studied Illinois college students and their information-seeking behavior, while the second is Alexis Madrigal’s post at The Atlantic, Why Using Control+F May Be the Most Important Computing Skill. I have a few thoughts rattling [...]
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Tue 23 Aug 2011, 2:15 pm
It happens every summer. I spend a few months feeling a bit adrift, spending too much time alone in my office, working half-heartedly at a few projects. I start to feel like a bad librarian, a bad employee, a bad person. Then late August hits. And there’s always a day – this year it came [...]
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Mon 18 Apr 2011, 1:53 pm
In a private post on FriendFeed, Dorothea Salo says: So, speaking as a provocateur: “Provocative” is not the same thing as “immune to objections.” You don’t get to hide behind it, PENN STATE. You don’t get to hide behind it, TAIGA. I’ve taken a fair amount of flak for my more provocative writing and speaking. [...]
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Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:41 am
“Information wants to be free.” It’s such a commonplace as to be virtually meaningless. I wonder if that’s yet another possible reading of the phrase: information wants to be free of meaning. But I recently came across the accepted origin of the phrase, and the additional context has helped me find new life in the [...]
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Sat 5 Feb 2011, 12:20 am
Three small posts on thinking and talking, loosely joined.
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Fri 13 Aug 2010, 2:04 pm
Update, November 12, 2010: I changed my mind. We are coming up on the fifth anniversary of the start of See Also. Which seems like a good time to shut things down around here. I’m happy that See Also has been part of the whole wave of library blogs, but like all waves, I think [...]
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Wed 25 Nov 2009, 1:44 pm
My library’s copy of El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos.
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Mon 31 Aug 2009, 4:20 pm
Libraries kick ass when they expand our imagination.
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Fri 21 Aug 2009, 12:19 am
Pick a noun, any noun.
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Mon 17 Aug 2009, 10:18 am
Four years and still going. Thanks for being here with me.
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Fri 3 Jul 2009, 7:32 am
I have been away. I have reasons.
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Tue 5 May 2009, 9:44 am
Announcing a new series of interviews with library types who I find interesting. Expect it to appear irregularly.
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Mon 20 Apr 2009, 10:25 am
Time to bring Shovers and Makers to a close. May 15, 2009 will be the last day to post a profile.
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Mon 12 Jan 2009, 5:12 pm
A little video for a slow lunchtime.
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Wed 24 Dec 2008, 2:31 pm
Revisiting my “do it now” post from the spring with a few more inspirational bits.
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Wed 26 Nov 2008, 10:59 am
It’s the time to be thankful, and I’m thankful for family, health, work, libraries, the Internets, and the friends I have made online. Thanks!
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Mon 3 Nov 2008, 3:05 pm
On my birthday, please vote for Barack Obama.
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Sun 17 Aug 2008, 9:37 pm
A Wordle word cloud in honor of the third anniversary of See Also….
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Wed 30 Apr 2008, 10:03 am
My entry on the “passion quilt” meme: do it now.
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Fri 28 Mar 2008, 10:45 am
So, I just met this guy named Steve Lawson. And yes, this is another post about Twitter. I’m sure you can deal.
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Sun 17 Feb 2008, 11:09 pm
Jumping in on a little memlet: just how technologically ignorant are you? And why is that important?
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Wed 6 Feb 2008, 11:00 pm
Iris Jastram asks (via memetag) why I’m a librarian and I give an answer.
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Tue 5 Feb 2008, 12:19 am
I nuked the blog. But it appears to be back now.
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Fri 1 Feb 2008, 5:28 pm
Life trumps blogging, getting sick trumps everyday life, and so on.
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Mon 21 Jan 2008, 10:47 pm
What makes a blog worth following?
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Thu 29 Nov 2007, 11:50 pm
Headed to the Computers in Libraries conference in April 2008 to talk about the Library Society of the World.
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Sat 22 Sep 2007, 10:11 pm
Just catching up on a few recent topics of conversation.
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Fri 17 Aug 2007, 12:58 pm
Two years of See Also…! Thank you all for reading, commenting, and making me think.
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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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Mon 4 Jun 2007, 2:01 pm
A few random non-library notes.
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Sun 27 May 2007, 10:47 pm
Josh Neff tagged me for some meme about eight random things. So I memed-up.
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Mon 21 May 2007, 2:48 pm
Neat photo from the Maker Faire. I wanna go next time!
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Thu 19 Apr 2007, 11:20 am
About my participation at the CLiC Spring Workshop in Pueblo, including meeting Five Weeks to a Social Library participant, Karen Pardue.
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Sun 8 Apr 2007, 10:38 pm
HOT Originally uploaded by Hatchibombotar. Does Michael Stephens still say “HOT!” all the time? All I know is that I thought of him when I saw this on the Colorado College campus. I walk behind one of the science buildings usually twice a day to and from the parking lot, but I only recently noticed [...]
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Thu 15 Mar 2007, 10:31 pm
I’m making changes to the blog tonight so that my del.icio.us links will no longer be a separate sidebar/footer item, but will be individual posts of their own. This probably resulted in an onslaught of “new” posts from me in your feed reader tonight. Now I’m going to work trying to style those entries differently [...]
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Mon 5 Mar 2007, 10:55 pm
This is my life:
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Thu 22 Feb 2007, 10:55 pm
I screw up the blog, salvage the blog, and shuffle away from the computer.
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Wed 24 Jan 2007, 10:11 pm
See Also… is doing alpha testing on a new WordPress theme. Take a look!
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Fri 12 Jan 2007, 1:41 pm
Don’t feed the trolls, and I’m a pathetic drama junkie nerdboy.
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Mon 1 Jan 2007, 9:04 pm
OK, I’m flipping the switch on the FeedBurner RSS feed today, and kicking off the blog at http://stevelawson.name/seealso/. If you are getting this post in your aggregator, you are all set. I’ll start sending reminders to the old feed addresses, and keep them up for the month of January. I’ll try to keep these throat-clearing [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Wed 29 Nov 2006, 9:42 pm
Update 2006-12-03: OK, got all the gunk scraped off the blog. Turns out that deleting 400 comments at a time was about as much as my system could handle; much more than that, and it would return an error. For Movable Type 3.2 users, be aware that there is a “known issue” regarding the auto-deletion [...]
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Tue 7 Nov 2006, 9:52 am
And all I got was this lousy sticker.
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Tue 19 Sep 2006, 10:38 pm
Last year’s Internet Librarian conference was a great combination of a kick-in-the-pants good time and a valuable professional development experience (see my posts tagged il2005 for details), so I had assumed that I would head for Monterey again this fall. But a few months back, just as I was starting to feel bad about not [...]
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Fri 8 Sep 2006, 1:53 pm
It would seem that I have Google bomb”>googlebombed my own catalog. I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry.
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Thu 31 Aug 2006, 11:28 pm
The official See Also… seal comes from The Official Seal Generator, which I first saw on 43 Folders. Apologies to Jessamyn “putting the rarin’ back in librarian” West for nicking her “putting the X in Y” language.
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Fri 18 Aug 2006, 7:41 am
Birthday cake by Tom-Tom on Flickr As I mentioned earlier this week, yesterday was the first blogversary for See Also…. I guess this is a low-key celebration, not a multimedia extravaganza like some people put on for their blog’s anniversary. I had originally hoped to celebrate with a big redesign of the site, or at [...]
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Mon 14 Aug 2006, 11:47 pm
[Warning: we are entering the first anniversary week for See Also, so expect more navel gazing than usual this week. -SL] In my first post to See Also, almost a year ago, I wrote about Walt Crawford’s first biblioblogosphere survey in Cites & Insights. I finished with this: So the next time Crawford does his [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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Fri 28 Apr 2006, 3:31 pm
I love the web. And I love the “biblioblogosphere.” But I am getting repetitive strain injury from hitting command-R in NetNewsWire to refresh my RSS subscriptions. And I stay up late reading Metafilter or trying to get my Second Life avatar just the right shade of blue instead of doing the dishes. I read ten [...]
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Thu 27 Apr 2006, 3:01 pm
I just installed the Email Whitelister plugin for Movable Type and populated it with the email addresses of all the folks who have already commented on this blog. So if you have ever left a message here before (and you use the same email address as you have in the past), your comment should be [...]
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Mon 17 Apr 2006, 4:52 pm
Edited 2006-04-28, 06:45: So far so good. If you try this on Movable Type, don’t forget that you still need to get a free WordPress API key via WordPress.com and fill it in under the settings for the Akismet plugin. If you forget that step, and you disable your other spam blockers as Akismet suggests, [...]
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Thu 13 Apr 2006, 9:02 am
[Warning: whining and complaining ahead. -SL] I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by: Comment spam. Like Walt Crawford, I’m getting hammered with stupid comment spam. It isn’t the amount as much as it is the seemingly innocuous nature of the spam is making it past my filter. I want to make it so that if you [...]
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Wed 5 Apr 2006, 11:01 am
As Michael Stephens has pointed out, putting yourself out there on the web can lead to strange and interesting encounters. On Monday, I got an email from Jessica E. Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal. She was writing an article about how people use online mapping services, and had come across my See Also post [...]
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Mon 20 Mar 2006, 10:09 pm
Back in 2002, I was the Digital Projects Librarian at the Science and Engineering Library at the University of California, San Diego. My boss at the time, Anna Gold, suggested that I could make myself useful by trying to keep the rest of the staff up-to-date on what was happening with the Digital Library Program [...]
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Sat 4 Mar 2006, 10:28 pm
The comments on this blog have really picked up lately, which is exciting for me. Last week I added a “recent comments” section to the right-hand sidebar on all pages, but it wasn’t updating properly on pages that weren’t getting “rebuilt” by Movable Type, so now it’s just on the home page. In addition, I [...]
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Fri 3 Mar 2006, 9:51 pm
map symbol – 100 Originally uploaded by LeoL30. This is post number 100 on See Also, coming about six and a half months since I started this thing. We hit 100 comments a few days ago with this comment from Lorcan Dempsey (Lorcan has won a free lifetime subscription to See Also for being the [...]
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Fri 24 Feb 2006, 1:51 pm
“Speak of the devil and he is bound to appear” has been running through my mind lately. Now that everyone who would like to be anyone on the web has ego feeds set up through Technorati, PubSub, IceRocket, etc., it seems that all one needs to do is name that person and link to him [...]
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Tue 14 Feb 2006, 7:48 am
At the risk of being extra dorky, I thought of some other lists of four (four more lists, to be exact) that might be fun/illuminating/not horrible. Four intimidating books I haven’t read, but plan to someday, once I finish reading all these comic books graphic novels: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne The Arcades Project by [...]
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Sun 12 Feb 2006, 10:07 pm
I’m getting close to the deadline for that Library 2.0 article for Colorado Libraries that I have mentioned before, and I’m finding it a bit of a challenge to break my habit of writing for the web. I’d like to write a paragraph or two about the current state of the ILS and the online [...]
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Fri 10 Feb 2006, 9:18 pm
I am such a loser. I was doing dishes thinking “No one has tagged me for the ’4 Things’ meme,” and feeling ambivalent–I don’t like chain letters, but I don’t like feeling left out, either. So I hit NetNewsWire to find out that my man Michael Stephens has tagged me. Gosh, I haven’t really thought [...]
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Mon 6 Feb 2006, 11:44 pm
So Walt Crawford did a post the other day about how he composes his blog posts, titled The joys of real-time wordsmithing. I have been meaning to do something along those lines to talk about the tools I use, so here goes. Warning: serious geeking out ahead. TextWrangler I write just about everything in a [...]
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Tue 3 Jan 2006, 11:22 pm
I don’t follow college football in any serious way, but I have a big soft spot for Penn State coach, Joe Paterno. Joe and his wife, Sue, were the co-chairs of the expansion campaign for the PSU library in the 1990s, and, in addition to raising $14 million, they gave a quarter of a million [...]
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Sun 1 Jan 2006, 8:20 pm
I didn’t really intend to take the time off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, but that’s how it worked out. Here, one day late, is my personal wrap-up of 2005. Blogs I started this blog back in August, and so far the experience has lived up to my expectations. I haven’t posted as often [...]
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Mon 5 Dec 2005, 2:49 pm
Those of you who subscribe to this blog via RSS probably noticed a change yesterday; the main feed for the site now also includes the “link blog” that appears in the right column on the site, and is consists of items in my del.icio.us bookmarks that I tag with see_also. I hope none of you [...]
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Thu 24 Nov 2005, 10:31 pm
Michael Stephens of Tame the Web has an interesting post entitled The Unintended Consequences of Social Software (or Putting Yourself Out There) It is interesting not just because he links to my family photos under “happy times,” (which is sweet) or because he has nice things to say about the Tutt Library Flickr page that [...]
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Wed 9 Nov 2005, 12:08 pm
This Friday and Saturday, I’ll be at the Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL) 2005 conference in Denver. If you are there too, keep an eye out for me, and please say “hi.” I won’t be blogging this conference to death like I did for Internet Librarian, but I will be lugging the laptop along, and [...]
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Thu 27 Oct 2005, 12:01 am
Internet Librarian 2005 kicked my ass, mostly in good ways. And I am not, wish as I might, Libraryman.
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Tue 25 Oct 2005, 2:49 pm
Had a good, inexpensive, enormous sandwich from Troia’s Market, up the hill on Del Monte Ave. from the convention center. Monterey must be penny-crushing machine capital of the frikkin’ Western Hemisphere. Just sayin’. Why would the Tarot/wicca (I almost wrote “wiki”) shop across the street from the Marriott have a sign saying “call ahead for [...]
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Sun 23 Oct 2005, 2:51 pm
The airport! Sorry; I was flashing back to when phones on airplanes were a novelty and every conversation from them began with “guess where I’m calling from?” Anyway, off to Internet Librarian 2005 in Monterey by way of San Francisco. Earlier today, I saw that Andrea Mercado of Library Techtonics has put up an Internet [...]
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Fri 21 Oct 2005, 2:07 pm
Since having an author bio is number one on Jakob Nielsen’s weblog usability list, it seemed like a good time to post my scintillating biography.
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Wed 19 Oct 2005, 2:50 pm
I’ll be there, trying to type and listen at the same time, along with about 15 others; I may not be unique, but I am certainly in good company, even if I am at the bottom of the list (hey!). According to Nancy Garman of Information Today, we will have a “press room” at our [...]
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Wed 5 Oct 2005, 3:45 pm
Upgrading the blog to Movable Type 3.2.
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Tue 20 Sep 2005, 10:20 pm
I don’t like working with my hands, but I do like working with HTML/CSS.
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Mon 5 Sep 2005, 9:17 pm
Setting up the sidebar to display posts to http://del.icio.us/bevedog/see_also.
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Thu 18 Aug 2005, 2:50 pm
On starting a design from scratch when the site is already up.
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Wed 17 Aug 2005, 10:56 pm
“Hello, world,” “first post!” and all that.
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