October 2005

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 30 October 2005

After reading about Liz Lawley’s keynote speech at Internet Librarian 2005, Steve Matthews (Vancouver Law Librarian Blog) wrote about folksonomies and tagging.

Laura at RFID in Libraries wonders about the cost of RFID tagging library CDs and DVDs.

Ryan Eby (libdev) is starting to see the potential in OpenWorldCat now that he’s seen the BBC Audio Annotation project. Lorcan Dempsey comments.

Rebecca Hedreen (Frequently Answered Questions) writes about using bookmarking services for organizing citations.

Paul Miller wrote an article for Ariadne Magazine about Web 2.0 and libraries. Michael Casey (LibraryCrunch) tries for a definition of Library 1.0. Richard Akerman (Science Library Pad) writes about the object-oriented web.

David Rothman (TeleRead) points to several blog posts about OpenLibrary.

Greg Schwartz (Open Stacks) posted his Podcasting Cybertour) (mp3 and powerpoint). Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) posted a demo of his library’s reference desk wiki and online tutorials. Phil Bradley has put together a page of utilities that help you do stuff you want to.

Meanwhile, the Krafty Librarian writes about the frustrations of hospital libraries that “want to provide great service but are handcuffed within our own hospital’s IT departments.”

Steve Lawson (See Also) writes about what is lost when text is digitized.

Jack Stephens (Conservator) points to a July article about the National Archives and the “pending ‘tsunami’ of digital records.”

Blogging: Elizabeth Lane Lawley (mamamusings) muses about being a corporate research blogger and comments re Collin Brooke’s post about academia and blogging practices. Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) points to Steven Bell’s article about academic library blogs. Laura Crossett (lis.dom) muses on the uses of the biblioblogosphere. Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) responds. Phil Bradley is trying to put together a list of British librarians who are blogging.

Rochelle Mazar (Random Access Mazar) takes up the “if you could change only one thing” challenge.

Heidi Dolamore (quiddle) writes about mentors and how to do well in job interviews. After reading “Don’t Discredit My Online Degree,” luzclarita wonders about positive/negative reactions from employers or co-workers to online degrees.

Michael Casey (LibraryCrunch) examines the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library controversy.

The Krafty Librarian points to a study about the value of hospital libraries.

Karen G. Schneider (Free Range Librarian) writes about ALA and political resolutions. Response from Jane (A Wandering Eyre).

Mark Lindner the thoughts are broken) would like to start a monthly online journal-article discussion group.

T. Scott comments re scholarly society publishers’ “offer to NIH to set up a system of direct links from PubMed to the articles in the journals that they publish.”

Phil Bradley points to a CILIP legal opinion paper re police access to library records (England and Wales).

Mary Minow (LibraryLaw Blog) notes that the Copyright Office is requesting comments re “controversial law that makes it criminal to tamper with DMCA.” And what about the library exception that is in the law?

eternitat, on the Livejournal libraries, wonders, Is an LIS Ph.D. worth it? Amanda Robertson (Data Obsessed) responds.

Follow-up: Steven Bell (ACRLog) responds to Paul Gandel’s “Libraries: Standing at the wrong platform waiting for the wrong train.” More from Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector), Blake (LISNews.com), and Greg McClay (SHUSH).

Follow-up: The Krafty Librarian and Dave Hook (Industrial Librarian) comment on Jakob Nielsen’s “Top Ten Weblog Design Mistakes of 2005.”

(conference notes and presentations are below the cut)

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 30 October 2005

After reading about Liz Lawley’s keynote speech at Internet Librarian 2005, Steve Matthews (Vancouver Law Librarian Blog) wrote about folksonomies and tagging.

Laura at RFID in Libraries wonders about the cost of RFID tagging library CDs and DVDs.

Ryan Eby (libdev) is starting to see the potential in OpenWorldCat now that he’s seen the BBC Audio Annotation project. Lorcan Dempsey comments.

Rebecca Hedreen (Frequently Answered Questions) writes about using bookmarking services for organizing citations.

Paul Miller wrote an article for Ariadne Magazine about Web 2.0 and libraries. Michael Casey (LibraryCrunch) tries for a definition of Library 1.0. Richard Akerman (Science Library Pad) writes about the object-oriented web.

David Rothman (TeleRead) points to several blog posts about OpenLibrary.

Greg Schwartz (Open Stacks) posted his Podcasting Cybertour) (mp3 and powerpoint). Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) posted a demo of his library’s reference desk wiki and online tutorials. Phil Bradley has put together a page of utilities that help you do stuff you want to.

Meanwhile, the Krafty Librarian writes about the frustrations of hospital libraries that “want to provide great service but are handcuffed within our own hospital’s IT departments.”

Steve Lawson (See Also) writes about what is lost when text is digitized.

Jack Stephens (Conservator) points to a July article about the National Archives and the “pending ‘tsunami’ of digital records.”

Blogging: Elizabeth Lane Lawley (mamamusings) muses about being a corporate research blogger and comments re Collin Brooke’s post about academia and blogging practices. Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) points to Steven Bell’s article about academic library blogs. Laura Crossett (lis.dom) muses on the uses of the biblioblogosphere. Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) responds. Phil Bradley is trying to put together a list of British librarians who are blogging.

Rochelle Mazar (Random Access Mazar) takes up the “if you could change only one thing” challenge.

Heidi Dolamore (quiddle) writes about mentors and how to do well in job interviews. After reading “Don’t Discredit My Online Degree,” luzclarita wonders about positive/negative reactions from employers or co-workers to online degrees.

Michael Casey (LibraryCrunch) examines the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library controversy.

The Krafty Librarian points to a study about the value of hospital libraries.

Karen G. Schneider (Free Range Librarian) writes about ALA and political resolutions. Response from Jane (A Wandering Eyre).

Mark Lindner the thoughts are broken) would like to start a monthly online journal-article discussion group.

T. Scott comments re scholarly society publishers’ “offer to NIH to set up a system of direct links from PubMed to the articles in the journals that they publish.”

Phil Bradley points to a CILIP legal opinion paper re police access to library records (England and Wales).

Mary Minow (LibraryLaw Blog) notes that the Copyright Office is requesting comments re “controversial law that makes it criminal to tamper with DMCA.” And what about the library exception that is in the law?

eternitat, on the Livejournal libraries, wonders, Is an LIS Ph.D. worth it? Amanda Robertson (Data Obsessed) responds.

Follow-up: Steven Bell (ACRLog) responds to Paul Gandel’s “Libraries: Standing at the wrong platform waiting for the wrong train.” More from Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector), Blake (LISNews.com), and Greg McClay (SHUSH).

Follow-up: The Krafty Librarian and Dave Hook (Industrial Librarian) comment on Jakob Nielsen’s “Top Ten Weblog Design Mistakes of 2005.”

(conference notes and presentations are below the cut)CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS
[in the case of multiple posts in a blog, link points to the earliest post]

About conferences: After covering several conferences, Richard Akerman (Science Library Pad) writes about what is needed to make successful conference blogs and wikis. Humor: Usability of reception sandwiches.

Quarantine the Plagiarism Plague: Collaborative Consciousness Raising (pdf): Short report from Mark Meola (ACRLog)).

Internet Librarian 2005: presentation links; notes, reports, photos, etc., at InfoToday Blog; and from Chris Jowaisas (TechnoBiblio); Sarah Houghton (LibrarianInBlack); Jane Dysart (Dysart & Jones); Michael Sauers (Travelin’ Librarian); oldjoe; David King (dave’s blog); Paul Pival (Distant Librarian); Jenny Levine (Shifted Librarian); Andrea Mercado (LibraryTechtonics); Steve Lawson (See Also); Joy Weese Moll (Wanderings of a Student Librarian); Michael Porter (Libraryman); Sherri Vokey (schwagbag); Elizabeth Lane Lawley (mamamusings); Aaron Schmidt (walking paper); Karen Coombs (Library Web Chic); Marydee Ojala (ONLINE Insider); Steven M. Cohen (Library Stuff); BlogJunction; Jessamyn West (librarian.net); Karen G. Schneider (Free Range Librarian); Erica Reynolds (Queequeg’s Content Saloon); Technorati tags: IL2005, IL05, and Internet Librarian 2005. Flickr tags: IL05, and librarians with giant calculators. Internet Librarian 2005 Wiki and blog.

2005 Nevada Library Association annual conference: reports from Daniel.

Open Content Alliance inaugural event: report from InfoToday Blog and Jim Michalko (hangingtogether.org).

2005 World Library and Information Conference: IFLA reports (via)

Netspeed: Geoff Harder posted the Ten Minute Madness: Social Software and Libraries presentation.

New York Library Association Conference: notes from Christopher Harris (Infomancy).

eifl Pre-Conference Workshop on Open Source Software for Libraries: brief notes from Mark Leggott (Loomware).

ASIS&T 2005: notes from Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rant); Jonathan Furner (025.431: The Dewey Blog); Conference blog – wiki – message board.

OCLC Members Council: report from George Needham (It’s all good).

Missouri Library Association Conference: reports from Redhaired (Future) Librarian.

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Daniel writes “The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has put together an Alaska Wildlife Curriculum aimed at teachers looking to provide lessons on plants and animals who live in the forests and tundras of Alaska.

School librarians across the country might find this an interesting site for kids and teachers.”

cronopi0 writes “I’d like to invite customers of all SirsiDynix products to a new independent collaborative blog for the combined SirsiDynix user community: The Gordian Knot .

The Gordian Knot is an independent effort — not sponsored by SirsiDynix, CODI or UUGI — to try to begin bringing those users together to make their voices heard at this critical time of development of the new, merged company. It’s important for customers of Sirsi products and Dynix products to get to know each other — and to get to know each other’s products and ideas — so that the future direction of the merged company can really be about taking the best qualities of its products and moving them forward in response to the needs of libraries and their patrons.

We’d like for The Gordian Knot to become a collaborative space for customers to talk about news from the merged company and its customer libraries, discuss the features and foibles of its products, report on national and regional user group conferences and other meetings, and look at important trends and new developments in librarianship and discuss how we would like to see the company respond.

Please join us!”

JET writes “BROKEN SHELVES

a more natural way of shelving books.
the new structure that appears through the broken shelves gives space to differently sized books.

one element provides a place to sit and read inside the shelves.”

-wow this is interesting – it was so hard to picture before I saw the actual books on the shelves! – A.K.

http://search-engines-web.com/ writes “Information Today, Inc. returns to Monterey in 2005 to present the ninth annual Internet Librarian – the ONLY conference for information professionals who are using, developing, and embracing Internet, Intranet, and Web-based strategies in their roles as information architects and navigators,Webmasters and Web managers, content evaluators and developers, taxonomists, searchers, community builders, information providers, trainers, guides, and more.

http://www.infotodayblog.com/

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/internet-librarian-b log

http://www.infotoday.com/il2005/“

The diligent folks at the Urban Legends Pages have updated their list of Halloween legends for 2005. A topical link for all the scary questions you’ll get Monday.

If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History

This site is hilarious and may even offend some of you.

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1ldyn/id2.html

These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques. Their owners might or might not have intended for them to be public. But they obviously are. Many of them are security cameras in companies or semi-public places. If you hover over the picture you’ll see what location information is available. If you click on it, a window will open and you can see a live video feed, plus comments and ratings and other information. 1288 webcams are available as of last scan. I’ve seen several libraries come up from time to time.
All these cams Should Be safe for viewing at the reference desk, though I make no promises.

If you want to go hunting for new cams, See More Googleable unsecured webcams, Still more random Googleable webcams or Googling unsecured webcams, from BoingBoing.

“Friday Time Killers” is a new “just for fun” topic @LISNews. Each Friday we’ll point to a fun & interesting site. Suggestions Are Welcomed.

GregS* writes “Interesting article by John J. Miller at National Review discussing the order the Narnia books should be read in as opposed to the way they are now packaged. Also some personal tidbits concerning C.S. Lewis and his views of writing: He believed that readers should try to share a poet’s consciousness rather than study it. “I look with his eyes, not at him,” wrote Lewis. “The poet is not a man who asks me to look at him; he is a man who says ‘look at that’ and points; the more I follow the pointing of his finger the less I can possibly see of him.”“

Cortez writes “Amerik Kachigian never met a book he didn’t like…he still has every one he’s ever read, starting at age 9.
St. Louis Post Dispatch

“I tell people, ‘The day he dies, before I bury him, I’m going to get a Dumpster and throw them all out,'” said Norma Kachigian, 65. “They’re everywhere. They’re in my basement. They’re in my garage.” And if she dies first? “Well, they won’t find his body for all the books. You think I’m kidding? I’m serious.”
About 35 years ago, Kachigian constructed “Charlie,” a small wooden suitcase that allows him to tote 10 books – along with pens, paper, a ruler, a highlighter and a big mug of soda – into the bathroom.”