Librarian Bomb, LSW zine number 2, now available

Mon 16 Nov 2009, 11:51 am

I’m finally ready to take orders for the latest LSW zine, Librarian Bomb.

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New LSW zine in time for Internet Librarian

Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:17 pm

Let’s make another zine, this time for the end of October, 2009.

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Charmingly Archaic: Zines in the Post-Print Age

Tue 7 Jul 2009, 10:43 am

The introduction to the LSW zine, Codslap!

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Obscurity

Thu 28 Feb 2008, 3:02 pm

Steven Bell wants to know if anyone is reading academic library journals and Heather Morrison says publishing in toll-access journals without self-archiving amounts to aiming for obscurity.

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A few thoughts on “University Publishing in a Digital Age”

Thu 9 Aug 2007, 9:12 am

Some of my notes on the recent report from Ithaka on the future of the university press.

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My OPAC…blows? And that’s…good?

Fri 1 Sep 2006, 2:23 pm

The September 2006 issue of Computers in Libraries has an article on the problems with OPACs, and the “OPACs Suck” meme.

It might be a great article, but I haven’t read it yet. I’m too busy snickering like an adolescent over the title and the pullquote.

The title is “Making OPACs Blow.”

And the pull quote is “Everyone [...]

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A Library 2.0 skeptic’s reading list

Fri 26 May 2006, 8:34 pm

Walt Crawford recently offered an “apology” of sorts on his blog Walt at Random for being the only person that the Library 2.0 proponents tend to cite as a Library 2.0 critic or skeptic. His January 2006 survey of the state of “Library 2.0 and ‘Library 2.0′” (link to pdf or html; it’s long, so [...]

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To be literate is to possess the cow of plenty

Fri 3 Feb 2006, 5:40 pm

To be literate is to possess the cow of plenty

Originally uploaded by Colorado College Tutt Library.

People have been throwing around Ranganathan’s five laws of library science so I thought I would take a look at the original.
I was pleasantly surprised to see [...]

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A Library 2.0 hangover

Tue 10 Jan 2006, 1:58 pm

Alternate titles for this post:

There is no such thing as Library 2.0 and this is a blog post about it. (Apologies for bastardizing the first line of Steven Shapin’s book The Scientific Revolution.)
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? And are pin-dancing angels really Library 2.0?

I have spent the last week [...]

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2005 Non-Required Reading

Tue 20 Dec 2005, 9:58 pm

I love the year-end lists. (If you love year-end lists, you surely know of the exhaustive annual Fimoculous meta-list). I have put together a little year-end non-required reading list of the library-related stuff I have read this year that has really stuck with me; that I have read and re-read, or recommended to others, or [...]

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The Successful Academic Librarian

Mon 3 Oct 2005, 3:13 pm

A little blurb for The Successful Academic Librarian: Winning Stratgeies from Library Leadersedited and with contributions by friends of mine.

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The ubiquitous library

Thu 8 Sep 2005, 11:22 am

A brief write-up of Lowry, Charles B. “Let’s Call it the ‘Ubiquitous Library’ Instead…” portal: Libraries and the Academy 5 (2005) 293-296.

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