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Making digitization easier

Wow! File this under amazingly cool tools for digitization. Some computer science folks from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have come up with a took that can search handwritten…

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Library education in the 21st century

I think our ALA president-elect, Michael Gorman, has the right idea on what the ALA should be focusing on. Education. According to the Library Journal, in a meeting entitled "The…

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On Being a 21st Century Librarian

Yesterday, at my job interview, I was asked to talk about the 21st century library and what I would bring to it. I wish I had read this article by…

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Libraries and RSS

Tame the Web this week has a great little guide on Teaching RSS to Reference Librarians. He's got great links to other resources that will educate and inspire librarians to…

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Recent articles on blogging (some great, some not so great)

There have been a number of recently published or written scholarly articles on blogging. Communications of the ACM has devoted most of their December 2004 anniversary issue to articles about…

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Citizen journalism meets the wiki phenomenon

Amateur journalists take note: according to Wired, the makers of Wikipedia have now created Wikinews, which allows anyone to write and edit news articles (subject to a similar review process…

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Tech vs. Traditional in Library School and Libraries

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…

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What about open source in libraries?

I couldn't agree more with what Aaron Schmidt wrote about in his Ten Things to Stay Tech Current, but I think he should add a number eleven to his list:…

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Commonsense tech advice for libraries

Everyone working at or interested in libraries should read Top Ten Things to Stay Tech Current by Aaron Schmidt at Walking Paper.

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Freevo is looking better and better

A couple of months ago, I was impressed by how well TiVo was courting consumers by lowering their price and marketing to busy people rather than to couch potatoes. But…

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A-List Weblogs

I recently read an interesting article for my Information Retrieval course about Power Laws and Weblogs, which I found very interesting in light of my recent forrays into blogging. The…

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RSS and the death of print newspapers

The Washington Post, in a series of focus groups, discovered that young people are far less likely to subscribe to newspapers than people 35 and over. Frankly, that wasn't a…

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Google scholar buzz, consolidated

If you want to read as much as you can about Google Scholar all in one place, there is now a blog devoted entirely to the subject. It's interesting to…

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PSA

I just wanted to encourage everyone to watch series of lectures on C-SPAN organized by the Library of Congress entitled The Digital Future. There are some great people who are…

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It was bound to happen

One of the many wonderful things about RSS feeds is that they are blissfully devoid of advertising. That may not be the case much longer. According to Wired News, "a…

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Grrrrr…

Our servers were down for almost seven hours today. This is really unprecedented. At first I thought I'd somehow caused it, but fortunately (or not) it was not my fault.…

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If it didn’t work for the RIAA…

The MPAA has filed their first bunch of lawsuits against people who offer movies for download. Apparently they were inspired by the rousing success of the RIAA's campaign to sue…

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Glad they didn’t have these when I was in school!

Cutting class -- almost a right of passage in high school -- is no longer an option for Houston area students. According to the NY Times, children in Houston area…

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Wilkommen

Welcome to my new and improved blog. I'd really wanted to keep the old one, but alas, I had to upgrade and am far too lazy to move my old…

Making digitization easier

Library education in the 21st century

On Being a 21st Century Librarian

Libraries and RSS

Recent articles on blogging (some great, some not so great)

Citizen journalism meets the wiki phenomenon

Tech vs. Traditional in Library School and Libraries

What about open source in libraries?

Commonsense tech advice for libraries

Freevo is looking better and better

A-List Weblogs

RSS and the death of print newspapers

Google scholar buzz, consolidated

PSA

It was bound to happen

Grrrrr…

If it didn’t work for the RIAA…

Glad they didn’t have these when I was in school!

Wilkommen

On 20 Years of Blogging at Information Wants to be Free

A review of Information Literacy and Social Media by Santamaría and Pfannenstiel

Community Time and Enoughness: The heart of slow librarianship

Queer Time, Crip Time, and Subverting Temporal Norms