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Bill Maher and I are on the same wavelength!

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

In the LA Times yesterday, Bill Maher echoed the sentiments I expressed yesterday about what is going on in our country and how it is reflected in today’s high school students. Of course he’s way funnier than I am and somehow finds a way to make even serious concerns hilarious (and thus, more palatable). Take [...]

Cool tool for bookmarklet multitasking

Monday, January 31st, 2005

Are you torn between using furl, del.icio.us, and the growing number of similar sites? Well worry no longer friends! Steven Cohen just posted about one of the cooler bookmarklet tools I’ve seen. Delicious Furled Tea Bookmarklet Maker allows users to post websites to several bookmarking sites (del.icio.us, furl, Connotea, etc.) at the same time. It [...]

PLA blog is up!

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

The PLA Blog is now up and running! It will have some great public library-related reports from the ALA Midwinter Conference by some very familiar faces in the library blogging world. It’s almost as good as being there! I’d wanted to go, but couldn’t really justify the expense considering my current lack of employment. I [...]

Archiving Digital Images from Film: My Approach

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

I’d mentioned in a previous story that i’ve set out on the horrid task of digitizing about 5,000 – 6,000 of my family’s 35mm slides, dating from the early 1960s until the present day. I want to free all our old pictures from the prison of the slide carousel, where they’ve sat for – literally [...]

5 Things I like

Friday, January 7th, 2005

Meredith asked me to write about 5 things i think work pretty well. And i do as i’m told. So here they are. 1) Konica/Minolta DiMAGE Scan Dual IV This is a so-called ‘film scanner’ or ‘slide scanner’. It lets you scan 35mm film negatives or slide positives into the computer. The resulting output is [...]

If the NY Times says it…

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

The New York Times has an article on how libraries are reaching out online and about the resurgence of e-books. It’s not exactly earth-shattering, but so nice to see the New York Times recognizing what’s going on in libraries today.

Holiday gifts for geeks (like me)

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Can’t think of what to get for the geek on your list? Take a look at some of the holiday product guides and 2004 best of guides from Wired, Ars Technica, PC Mag, Forever Geek, Extreme Tech, and Think Geek. And if those weren’t enough, Gizmodo has a huge list of holiday gift guides for [...]

Hope for those with Linux-compatibility issues

Friday, December 3rd, 2004

I’m surprised I hadn’t heard more about this news before I found this encouraging CNET article via Librarian’s Happen. Apparently, Adobe is moving into open source software development and marketing. They won’t specify exactly what their plans are, but the fact that they are hiring a Director of Linux Market Development and a computer scientist [...]

Tech vs. Traditional in Library School and Libraries

Monday, November 29th, 2004

I’m probably grossly oversimplifying this, but I think there are two types of librarians: those who embrace technology and those who are antagonistic towards it or ignore it. I have seen this in my work at a public library and, surprisingly to me, at library school. I have been amazed that many people in my [...]

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