Archive for May, 2007

Eight random things

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Rachel tagged me with a new meme and challenged me to come up with eight random things about myself. I feel like I’ve disclosed a lot on this blog, so I had a hard time coming up with anything anyone would find remotely interesting. Here goes nothing!

My favorite author right now (and for the past [...]

You too could have a Walt Crawford!

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I’m sure you’ve all heard that our dear Walt Crawford will be free of his job at OCLC at the end of September 2007 (if you don’t recognize the name, you certainly know his excellent monthly publication Cites and Insights or you almost certainly have his MARC for Library Use somewhere in your professional collection [...]

Couldn’t have said it better…

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

I have to remember to give Sarah Houghton-Jan a big pat on the back next time I see her for her post on social networking software. In it she risks ostracism de-friending to articulate some of her gripes about the dilution of social networks. One gripe in particular is one I’ve been thinking [...]

The journey home

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

I’m back from my whirlwind vacation. I returned Monday night, but I’ve been so exhausted since then that I haven’t had the energy to post (and yesterday was my birthday, so I had to devote lots of time to eating pie). It was a physically and mentally exhausting trip. Lots of hiking, lots of driving [...]

Yes, another update on Social Software in Libraries

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

I’m at the airport right now heading off to the second part of my 2-week vacation. However, I’ve gotten a bunch of panicked e-mails from people who have ordered their books through Amazon and received an e-mail that the book is not available and that their order has been cancelled. I just wanted to say [...]

Update on Social Software in Libraries

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

I’m sure those of you who have ordered Social Software in Libraries are wondering when your books will be coming. Believe me, I’m more anxious than anyone to see the new and pristine version (see this post for background on the first printing snafu). I have been assured by John Bryans, Editor-in-Chief of Information Today [...]

Looking forward and finding balance

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

I’m coming to the point in my year when things really start to get crazy. I’ve got in the neighborhood of six or seven talks coming up in the next seven weeks. I have a book chapter on librarians and library services being embedded into online courseware due at the end of this month for [...]

Through her eyes

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

I have always enjoyed reading books and articles about certain places written by foreigners. Whether it is the British writer Jonathan Raban writing about America, the early 20th century British adventurer, Freya Stark, writing about “Arabia”, or American journalist, Adam Gopnick, writing about Paris, there is something special in their writing that comes from seeing [...]

Any readers of my blog from Quebec? (y a-t-il des lecteurs Québécois de mon blog?)

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Ok, enough of my very rusty and pathetic French.
Tomorrow I’ll be heading up to beautiful Montreal for the Quebec Library Association Conference. I’ll be giving a talk on the afternoon of May 4th entitled Building Collaboration with Wikis (the description — in English and French naturellement — is available in the program).
If [...]

Let 100 wikis bloom?

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

In Please, Not Another Wiki Casey Bisson complains about the proliferation of wikis:
Perhaps I cringe at any suggestion to create a new wiki because I wonder why that content can’t be published on an existing wiki. Perhaps I cringe because I wonder if the proprietary motivation to create a new wiki is itself in conflict [...]