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Sometimes we all need a little reminder…
Sometimes we all need a little reminder why we got into the library field in the first place. When you hear about the lack of a librarian shortage, the low…
Posted inour digital future
RFID in Berkeley?
This month’s big library RFID news came when the Berkeley Public Library announced that it was spending $650,000 to place RFID tags on 550,000 library items. This is a library…
Posted inblogging
Good tips for beginning bloggers
Starting a blog can be indimidating. I remember when I first started, I'd considered it more of an exercise in writing commentary than something I was writing for an audience.…
Posted inGeneral
Bill Maher and I are on the same wavelength!
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…
Posted inALA intellectual freedom
What is happening to our country?
I was more than a little frightened when I saw the survey, sponsored by the James L. Knight Foundation, which found that 35% of the high school students surveyed thought…
Posted inour digital future
WikiBibliography
The WikiBibliography pulls together articles and commentary on Wikis from a variety of areas. Most of the citations have links to the actual article, so it's a great resource for…
Posted inour digital future
Digitization 101
Thanks to digitizationblog, I just found an amazingly cool blog that I wanted to share with you. Digitization 101 is a blog created by Jill Hurst-Wahl for Hurst Associates. Hurst-Wahl…
Posted inlibraries
Questioning library terminology
I just found this very interesting website via TangognaT. John Kupersmith, a reference librarian at UC Berkeley has collected usability survey data from various libraries as well as the library…
Fabulous maps
Ever since I started this blog, I've made a big effort to post regularly. Unfortunately, I slacked off last week. Well, I don't know if packing, putting our junk into…
Posted inopen source
Firefox is on fire!!!
I was very excited to hear, via Research Buzz, that Firefox has been downloaded more than 25 million times! That's fabulous! Hopefully we'll see it replacing Internet Explorer more and…
Posted inblogging open source
The community in computing
The Linux Librarian has a great post on why open source and blogging are so great: This is why open source works. From my comments, from yesterday, from James Robertson:…
Posted inlibraries our digital future
Library websites that don’t suck
Thank you Librarian Avengers for spelling out what most of us say to ourselves day after day as we navigate library websites and library catalogs: most library websites suck. In…
Posted inblogging
Online Social Networks Conference
Michael Stephens and Aaron Schmidt (the Batman and Robin of the library blogging world) will be presenting The Library Blogosphere: Toward a Working Taxonomy at the Online Social Networks Conference,…
Posted inblogging
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
I know this article isn't new, but it's new to me and it may be new to you. Jon Udell wrote a concise and tremendously insightful article in InfoWorld entitled…
Posted inRSS and Syndication
RSS for lawyers (and us)
Feedmelegal is a blog all about RSS and blogging in the legal field. The author has a great list of links to tools for the growing world of RSS. Included…
Posted injob search
Darn that dream
I've applied and interviewed for jobs that I have not gotten. I've gotten used to rejection letters and all that. Usually I don't get my hopes up, so it's not…
Posted injob search libraries
The art of the interview
I've had many interviews, both in the social work and library fields. Some have gone great and some have been disasters. But the disasters haven't always been mine. I've read…
Posted inour digital future reference
What a wonderful Wiki world
If 2004 was the year of the blog, I think 2005 will be the year of the Wiki. Wikis first came to my attention in 2003 in the form of…
The cool yellow pages
If you haven't already, go check out A9.com, a yellow pages for the future. More a reference work than simply a "phone book", A9 allows users to not only search…
Posted inGeneral
Cool tool for bookmarklet multitasking
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…
