Tue 30 Nov 2010, 4:45 pm
A recent article argues that Google Scholar’s improved coverage of the online scholarly literature means that libraries should consider canceling abstracting and indexing databases. I can’t see how that would work out well.
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Wed 7 Apr 2010, 8:08 am
I wrote a book, and it is OK.
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Tue 30 Mar 2010, 10:58 am
Yesterday’s terminal of tomorrow, today!
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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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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:17 pm
Let’s make another zine, this time for the end of October, 2009.
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Tue 7 Jul 2009, 10:43 am
The introduction to the LSW zine, Codslap!
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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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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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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 [...]
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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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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 this beautiful design on the cover of the 1931 edition [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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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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