Site redesign
I just spent much of the day redesigning my site. The first time I designed my site, I was in school and my time was at a premium. I know…
Laptop hunt
Since I may be moving to a very tiny apartment in Chicago soon, I thought it best to trade in my old desktop for a swanky new laptop (the CPU…
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Questions about the Google Library Project
Barbara Quint has put together a list of questions and answers about the Google Library Project that have been pondered by various people in the library and search worlds. Some…
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MLS: Buyer beware?
Last night, when I got home from my New Year's Eve revelry (which consisted of baking cookies with a five-year-old, playing Chutes and Ladders, and drinking sparkling cider), I found…
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Didn’t know I was being antisocial
The New York Times featured another study furthering the notion that Internet use is socially isolating and takes people away from other activities. I'm perfectly willing to grant them the…
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Happy New Year!
Sorry I didn't have time to post anything today (been working on cover letters ALL day) but I wanted to wish everyone a happy and safe New Year. I'm just…
Open Access
I guess this is the day to post intros! Peter Suber, at Open Access News, has published a very concise introduction to the concept of open access. A Very Brief…
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An Introduction to Feeds
From Resource Shelf, I have found An Introduction to Feeds, which does an excellent job of describing what RSS is and how to use aggregators. I will definitely send this…
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Dispaches from the job hunt
Today, Dorothea at Caveat Lector wrote about Them jobhuntin’ blues. Oh yes, I do feel your pain. After applying for jobs since late September, I really think I could get…
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Searching handwritten manuscripts and Google
Earlier this month, I had reported on a new way to search handwritten manuscripts that was developed by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Today, the New York Times has…
What we have…
I don't know what I could say that hasn't already been said about the disaster in southeast Asia on Sunday. It is a tragedy beyond my comprehension -- easily the…
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New Cites & Insights and Simpsons puzzle
Hi! The newest issue (Jan '05) of Cites and Insights is out with some commentary on conference blogging, blogging ethics, and a bit on Google Print. Walt Crawford brings up…
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Happy Holidays
This will be my last post before Christmas. My posts may be a bit sporadic until Tuesday as my adorable niece and nephew are coming down for a visit with…
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Digital library program
D-Lib has an article about a new grant-funded partnership between the library and information studies departments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Indiana University at Bloomington to develop…
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Digitization’s long-term implications
The Librarian in Black pointed the way to a fabulous tutorial on digital preservation. Anyone interested in the subject should take a look at Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies…
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A Net Nanny with an MLS
Wow! In an age of shrinking budgets and shrinking staffs, the Phoenix Public Libraries has secured $175,000 to hire one full time professional librarian and three paraprofessionals to police their…
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Eyes on the prize (money?)
Here is a disappointing story about the licensing and intellectual property rights . The award-winning documentary, Eyes on the Prize, about the civil rights movement, can no longer be aired…
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The sound of silence
I'm not one of those people who really notices the sound my computer makes. All through college I practically slept with my laptop on the bed next to me (how…