Kos: Ten Years Of Library Internet In A Small Town
This is not anything you don’t know, but it’s a nice eloquent “why you should support your public libraries” essay in a place you wouldn’t maybe otherwise see it. The local library near where I now...
View Articlethe best library wedding photos you are likely to see
“Sarah is a librarian of INES-National Institute of Deaf Education. I’ma librarian at UFRJ. We married and decided to make the official photos in two libraries. The first, the Royal Portuguese Reading....
View Articlea little thing I wrote
I wrote 5000 words about writing 100,000 words. Here’s my essay on In the Library with the Lead Pipe about thoughts I had on writing for print in an era of digital content.
View ArticleSXSW11 the year of the librarian say the Atlantic.
SXSW 2011 was the year of the librarian and I was glad to be a part of it. I’m still slowly heading homeward but you might enjoy this short Atlantic article.
View ArticleWhat happened to NJQ&A and why?
NJLA issues strong statement on NJ State Library/QandANJ, for more information read Peter Bromberg’s backgrounder post on what happened to this service and who made the decisions and why. Official...
View ArticleDataviz you can get behind, librarians as sees through a census lens
“Today, the marriage rate among librarians is the highest it has ever been with 62 percent of librarians married in 2009.” There is a lot of data in the world. Librarians are good at using census data...
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that’s one good use librarians have for facebook
As you know, Vermont was hit hard by Hurricane Irene and a lot of resultant flooding. I am fine and my house is fine. I’m not sure what the library damage assessment is at this point but I’ve been...
View ArticleTrademark battles – Koha, LibLime, US, New Zealand
I’ve been reading articles for the past few days talking about the ongoing debate between LibLime/PTFS and the Koha community working on a different version of the same software. Here is an article...
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Library as Incubator Project – the best new website you may not know about
There’s an ongoing theme in library programming: trying to find stuff that isn’t the stuff that’s already been done. While there are aspects of “Just play the hits, man” in a lot of the work we do,...
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Happy Ten Year Anniversary Unshelved!
A happy birthday to my friends over at Unshelved. I’m happy to have played whatever small part I had in their continued fame and awesomeness and I LOVE this jacket.
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A good old fashioned linkdump
Public domain photograph by: US Navy, National Science Foundation. Link. I’m back at home after meeting with a lot of terrific librarians in four different states. March is the busy month and after...
View ArticleHow do you search for something that’s NOT online, a fun and fascinating...
“Over the last week in my new first-year undergraduate course, Media Fluency for the Digital Age, my students have been wrestling with a very counterintuitive digital media assignment, and I think it’s...
View ArticleHow to solve impossible problems with Google… by Google
Like many library people, I get annoyed when I tell people I can’t find something on their website and they tell me how to search for it. That said, I know there are things I still don’t know about...
View ArticleRecent scribblings – managing high potential rock star librarians
Right after I got back from New York, Hurricane Sandy hit and I spent a lot of time in the quickweb spreading links about how people could help libraries affected by Hurricane Sandy (you still can –...
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some show and tell
Just having one of those days where I am in favor of a picture-based approach to what I’ve been interested in. Press release | official website Run your OPAC on a min computer that costs under $50....
View ArticleLink roundup, things you might like
When nerds collide – some advice on managing groups of volunteers for one-off library projects I failed to communicate the “why” of this project to the volunteers. Before turning my volunteers loose,...
View ArticleA link roundup, a redesign, and hey I’m still here
Hiya! I needed to fix a thing with my reading list so I needed a widget-ready theme so I changed to this one and had a “to do” item to update and then a number of things happened, none of which are...
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Twice a decade whether it needs it or not
This is a theme update. I was looking for a way to sort of merge this blog and my newsletter. I have not managed that, but I did get this site looking fairly decent for now and maybe like it was...
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