January 2007

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending January 28

……….

Ryan Deschamps (The Other Librarian) lists his Top 10 library 2.0 “No-brainers” for public libraries. Mary Carmen Chimato (Circ and Serve) asks, can access services be included in Library 2.0? Meredith Farkas (Web4lib) points to Bonaria Biancu’s Library 2.0 meme map. Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) posts his 2006 article about the most important traits of Librarian 2.0. Comments from Scott Pfitzinger (BiblioTech Web). Sarah Clark (The Scattered Librarian) writes about what she perceives to be The Dark Side of Library 2.0.

Jon Udell points out the difference between use experience and user experience and notes the importance of the “aha” moment.

Follow-up re Karen Schneider’s article about IT planning by non-IT departments: comments from Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack) and Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It). LIGHTER SIDE: Sean (ACPL’s IT blog) presents a PC-and-Mac-style ad about librarians and the IT dept.”

When you digitize, are you preserving the content or the original item? Some thoughts from Jill Hurst-Wahl (Digitization 101). Mary Minow (LibraryLaw Blog) explains how the Kahle v. Gonzales decision is bad for libraries. Jessamyn West (librarian.net) comments re U.S. National Archives/footnote.com digitization deal. More about it from Jill Hurst-Wahl. More comments from Jeanne Kramer-Smyth (Spellbound Blog) and Dan Cohen.

Jessamyn West says, go read “More on What is Going on at the Library of Congress.” David Bigwood agrees and also points to a paper about the elimination of Series Authority Records. Thom Hickey (Outgoing) has a short note about finding legendary characters in bibliographic records.

Dave Pattern (Self-plagiarism is style) has also been working on adding user ratings to the OPAC. Richard Akerman (Science Library Pad) comments about the D-Lib Magazine article about OPACs. Also many comments about Karen Coyle’s article, “Resource Description and Access: Cataloging for the 20th Century” in her blog (Coyle’s InFormation).

About John Blyberg’s SOPAC: comments from techxplorer (librariesinteract.info). Josh Neff (the goblin in the library) says it’s the code-sharing that is the most significant aspect and that we should do more of it.

Want to play with an Open Source CMS? Ryan Deschamps (The Other Librarian) is proposing to let up to 20 people ‘play’ with the backend of a Joomla-powered website on a test-server.

Ryan Eby (ebyblog) points to Nelsonville Public Library’s Q&A about their 2003 move to Koha.

Follow-up re Wired News article about libraries, OverDrive, and DRM: comments from Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack); David Fulton (Daveman’s Tech Tips).

Peter Suber (Open Access News) has several posts about the Association of American Publishers’s (AAP) PR campaign against open access. More comments from Barbara Fister (ACRLog), Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector), Iris Jastram (Pegasus Librarian), and Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rants). Also from Dorothea Salo, AAP/PSP’s response, translated.

Information Today, Inc.’s 2007 InfoTubey Awards: “InfoTubies recognize those libraries or individuals who have created YouTube library-related productions that promote a library, or library services, or enhance the library’s value. Deadline for submissions: February 14, 2007.” (via)

Eri (Z Words) responds to DC librarian’s lament. More from Jason (Thus Spoke Pragmatic Librarian). Eri (Z Words) also points to a Christian Science Monitor editorial calling for more classics in school reading lists.

Weeding: David Bigwood (Catalogablog) points to the SUNLINK Weed of the Month Archive.

Joy Weese Moll (Wanderings of a Student Librarian) has more job searching advice.

Another custom search engine: ALA-RUSA Best Free Reference Web Sites (via)

Karen A. Coombs (Library Web Chic) explains her love-hate relationship with ALA. Michael Golrick (Thoughts from a Library Administrator wishes there were a way to follow ALA Council proceedings from afar.

Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free) writes at length about when distance learning goes bad.

Doug Johnson (The Blue Skunk Blog) posts his 1995 column, “How Important is Certification?

Mary Minow (LibraryLaw Blog) writes about best policies for dealing with unattended children.

Mary Carmen Chimato (Circ and Serve) writes about Circ/Ill/Reserves’ collective self-esteem problems.

David Rothman (davidrothman.net) writes about using iPods for library training.

Paul R. Pival (The Distant Librarian) comments on a preliminary study of Google Scholar.

Mary Beth (Imprompty Librarian) points out a shooting incident at the Anderson County (SC) Library. [Google News]

T. Tallent (Yes to Know) that golf pencils are “a perfect little example of old ideas or practices that aren’t really serving us any more in libraries.” (via)

Mita (new jack librarian) has strong feelings about collection development policies.

Getting the word out: Nichole (nichole’s auxiliary storage) points to a Feb 2007 Macworld article that includes “Use your local library” among the tips and tools to “find the good stuff fast.”

From St. Joseph Public Library: “Top 10 things you probably didn’t know your library offered” (via(. Jason (Thus Spoke Pragmatic Librarian) tackles the question, Should libraries offer video games?

HOW TO choose CD/DVD archival media (via)

Mark Leggott (LoomWare) points to Laura Rein’s article (Inside Higher Ed) about the changing “place” of the library.

More food metaphors: Rochelle Mazar (Random Access Mazar) explains how information is like beef brisket.

Dave Lankes (Virtual Dave…Real Blog) points to the ALA-OITP/IIS technology brief, “Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation.”

Michel-Adrien Sheppard (Library Boy) comments on the recent study on book snobbery.

From LISNews: 10 blogs to read in 2007. Sarah Clark (The Scattered Librarian) is planning to do a weekly round-up of posts she has marked in her feed reader.

[More after the jump]

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending January 28

……….

Ryan Deschamps (The Other Librarian) lists his Top 10 library 2.0 “No-brainers” for public libraries. Mary Carmen Chimato (Circ and Serve) asks, can access services be included in Library 2.0? Meredith Farkas (Web4lib) points to Bonaria Biancu’s Library 2.0 meme map. Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) posts his 2006 article about the most important traits of Librarian 2.0. Comments from Scott Pfitzinger (BiblioTech Web). Sarah Clark (The Scattered Librarian) writes about what she perceives to be The Dark Side of Library 2.0.

Jon Udell points out the difference between use experience and user experience and notes the importance of the “aha” moment.

Follow-up re Karen Schneider’s article about IT planning by non-IT departments: comments from Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack) and Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It). LIGHTER SIDE: Sean (ACPL’s IT blog) presents a PC-and-Mac-style ad about librarians and the IT dept.”

When you digitize, are you preserving the content or the original item? Some thoughts from Jill Hurst-Wahl (Digitization 101). Mary Minow (LibraryLaw Blog) explains how the Kahle v. Gonzales decision is bad for libraries. Jessamyn West (librarian.net) comments re U.S. National Archives/footnote.com digitization deal. More about it from Jill Hurst-Wahl. More comments from Jeanne Kramer-Smyth (Spellbound Blog) and Dan Cohen.

Jessamyn West says, go read “More on What is Going on at the Library of Congress.” David Bigwood agrees and also points to a paper about the elimination of Series Authority Records. Thom Hickey (Outgoing) has a short note about finding legendary characters in bibliographic records.

Dave Pattern (Self-plagiarism is style) has also been working on adding user ratings to the OPAC. Richard Akerman (Science Library Pad) comments about the D-Lib Magazine article about OPACs. Also many comments about Karen Coyle’s article, “Resource Description and Access: Cataloging for the 20th Century” in her blog (Coyle’s InFormation).

About John Blyberg’s SOPAC: comments from techxplorer (librariesinteract.info). Josh Neff (the goblin in the library) says it’s the code-sharing that is the most significant aspect and that we should do more of it.

Want to play with an Open Source CMS? Ryan Deschamps (The Other Librarian) is proposing to let up to 20 people ‘play’ with the backend of a Joomla-powered website on a test-server.

Ryan Eby (ebyblog) points to Nelsonville Public Library’s Q&A about their 2003 move to Koha.

Follow-up re Wired News article about libraries, OverDrive, and DRM: comments from Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack); David Fulton (Daveman’s Tech Tips).

Peter Suber (Open Access News) has several posts about the Association of American Publishers’s (AAP) PR campaign against open access. More comments from Barbara Fister (ACRLog), Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector), Iris Jastram (Pegasus Librarian), and Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rants). Also from Dorothea Salo, AAP/PSP’s response, translated.

Information Today, Inc.’s 2007 InfoTubey Awards: “InfoTubies recognize those libraries or individuals who have created YouTube library-related productions that promote a library, or library services, or enhance the library’s value. Deadline for submissions: February 14, 2007.” (via)

Eri (Z Words) responds to DC librarian’s lament. More from Jason (Thus Spoke Pragmatic Librarian). Eri (Z Words) also points to a Christian Science Monitor editorial calling for more classics in school reading lists.

Weeding: David Bigwood (Catalogablog) points to the SUNLINK Weed of the Month Archive.

Joy Weese Moll (Wanderings of a Student Librarian) has more job searching advice.

Another custom search engine: ALA-RUSA Best Free Reference Web Sites (via)

Karen A. Coombs (Library Web Chic) explains her love-hate relationship with ALA. Michael Golrick (Thoughts from a Library Administrator wishes there were a way to follow ALA Council proceedings from afar.

Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free) writes at length about when distance learning goes bad.

Doug Johnson (The Blue Skunk Blog) posts his 1995 column, “How Important is Certification?

Mary Minow (LibraryLaw Blog) writes about best policies for dealing with unattended children.

Mary Carmen Chimato (Circ and Serve) writes about Circ/Ill/Reserves’ collective self-esteem problems.

David Rothman (davidrothman.net) writes about using iPods for library training.

Paul R. Pival (The Distant Librarian) comments on a preliminary study of Google Scholar.

Mary Beth (Imprompty Librarian) points out a shooting incident at the Anderson County (SC) Library. [Google News]

T. Tallent (Yes to Know) that golf pencils are “a perfect little example of old ideas or practices that aren’t really serving us any more in libraries.” (via)

Mita (new jack librarian) has strong feelings about collection development policies.

Getting the word out: Nichole (nichole’s auxiliary storage) points to a Feb 2007 Macworld article that includes “Use your local library” among the tips and tools to “find the good stuff fast.”

From St. Joseph Public Library: “Top 10 things you probably didn’t know your library offered” (via(. Jason (Thus Spoke Pragmatic Librarian) tackles the question, Should libraries offer video games?

HOW TO choose CD/DVD archival media (via)

Mark Leggott (LoomWare) points to Laura Rein’s article (Inside Higher Ed) about the changing “place” of the library.

More food metaphors: Rochelle Mazar (Random Access Mazar) explains how information is like beef brisket.

Dave Lankes (Virtual Dave…Real Blog) points to the ALA-OITP/IIS technology brief, “Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation.”

Michel-Adrien Sheppard (Library Boy) comments on the recent study on book snobbery.

From LISNews: 10 blogs to read in 2007. Sarah Clark (The Scattered Librarian) is planning to do a weekly round-up of posts she has marked in her feed reader.

[More after the jump]

BLOGGING
 
Doug Johnson (Blue Skunk Blog) writes about personal blogging and professional common sense.
 

Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) has a couple of posts about team blogs and institutional provision of blogs.
 

Is your listing in the Open Directory Project wrong or outdated? You probably can’t fix the listing, but Darlene Fichter (Blog on the Side) shows how to fix some search engine results.
 

Angel Rivera (The Gypsy Librarian) has collected some posts on finding ideas for blogging.
 

  THE LIGHTER SIDE
 

The winners of Overdue Media’s (“the Unshelved guys”) Pimp My Bookcart contest.
 

  The Library Predic-o-matic 3000 (by Dave Pattern (Self-plagiarism is style).
 

Videos: David Rothman (davidrothman.net) points to a trailer for independent film Shelf Life, a “dark comedy of petty office politics in a library. Also via David, Three of a Kind: The One at the Library.
 

Mark Lindner (Off the Mark) is “collecting songs ‘about’ cataloging, classification, naming, lexicography, language issues, and a small group of related topics not fully explicated (yet).”
 

  Illustrated Librarian Temporary Tattoos. (via)
 

  Bad Librarian haikus.
 

  CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS
 

In the February Cites & Insights,* Walt Crawford combined a lot of advice about conference speaking.
 

StevenB (ACRLog) has some thoughts for better conference discussions. He also discusses the idea of having research paper programs at ALA.
 

  Open Repositories Conference 2007 (Jan. 23-26)

 
– Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector).

 
– Karen A. Coombs (Library Web Chic)
 
 

  Association for Library and Information Science (ALISE) Annual (Jan. 15-18)

 
– Joyce Valenza (NeverEndingSearch Blog) attended ALISE and ALA back to back. Short report.
 

  Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting (Jan. 18-20)

 
– Barbara Fister (ACRLog)
 
 

  ALA Midwinter 2007 (Jan. 19-24)
LITA Blog
Katie (Young Librarian)
David Lee King
PLA Blog
Anna Creech (eclectic librarian)
QuestionPoint blog
Rochelle Hartman (Tinfoil + Raccoon)
Michael Porter
(Libraryman).
Andrew Pace (Hectic Pace)
Jim Rettig (Twlight Librarian)
Jonathan Rochkind posted a report as a comment in FRBR Blog. (via)
– More bloggers at the MidWinter2007 wiki.
 
 

  * Yes, I know C&I is not a blog.
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  This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday. [Feeds]

Saturday’s Sinfest shows the devil figuring out what reading choices are controversial these days.

Here’s a link to Saturday’s strip.

Rich writes “The Patriot Ledger of Quincy Mass. reported last Tuesday that 4 communities in the Old Colony Network cut off borrowing privileges to Randolph residents on July 1 because the town’s Turner Free Library no longer meets state standards. “The library is now open 40 hours a week, far short of the 63 hours required for a community Randolph’s size to receive state aid. The state Board of Library Commissioners on Jan 4 revoked the library’s accreditation. That will cost the town $30,000 in state library aid.”
Here’s The Story“

The New Yorker Google intends to scan every book ever published, and to make the full texts searchable, in the same way that Web sites can be searched on the company’s engine at google.com.

This one’s sure to ruffle somebody’s feathers…

John Kelso of the Austin-American Statesman suggests that ”
Since nobody wants it, put Bush’s library at Virtual U. The obvious solution to the problem of finding a site for the George W. Bush presidential library? Since the thing causes a stink whenever someone suggests putting it at a real university, why not put it at an online university such as the University of Phoenix?

If the library were confined to the Internet, it would eliminate Bush just showing up on campus and embarrassing the administration.”

Maybe this is the wave of the future?

Cabot writes “The Ottawa Chapter of the Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services, a division of the Canadian Library Association, recently hosted a workshop on Library and Archive Canada’s new Legal Deposit of Publications Regulations. The focus of the session was on the new requirement for the deposit of on-line publications.

A summary of the presentation by John Stegenga, LAC’s manager of legal deposit, is available on the CASLIS Ottawa blog.

A copy of the presentations are accessible from the CASLIS Ottawa Web site.”

stevenj writes “The Family Circus cartoon for Jan. 27 is another classic. Since FC isn’t online until a month after the comic appears in print (just open up the newspaper folks) here’s the gist of the cartoon. Billy and Dolly are coming out of the library. Dolly says to Billy “To be a librarian, all you have to learn is how to say “SHH!”. We all know Dolly isn’t the brightest light on the comics page, but now she’s spreading that old librarian stereotype. I think this calls for Leslie Burger to lay the smackdown on Bill Keane. It could be worse. Maybe next month Dolly will touch off a real firestorm by telling Jeffy “I may be dumb, but I’m a lot smarter than all those librarian bloggers.””

Kate L writes “The management committee of the Feminist Library in London is calling an emergency meeting on Saturday 24th February 2007 to decide on whether to close the library for good. This meeting is a last ditch attempt to rally feminists to support our library and, if we are not able to come up with a solution, to discuss finding another suitable home for the collection.

Kate L writes “The management committee of the Feminist Library in London is calling an emergency meeting on Saturday 24th February 2007 to decide on whether to close the library for good. This meeting is a last ditch attempt to rally feminists to support our library and, if we are not able to come up with a solution, to discuss finding another suitable home for the collection.Those of you who have not been in touch for a while might like to know that the collection now also includes 75 boxes of material that was the Women’s Health Library that we rescued from being thrown in a skip over the summer.

For a number of years the Feminist Library has existed in a state of
permanent emergency, with a dwindling number of volunteers to take part in
running the library, a precarious financial situation, uncertainty about its
location, and a lack of womanpower to pursue crucial funding applications.

The current group of volunteers is no longer able to sustain the situation,
and the library will be forced to close without an injection of new volunteers. Therefore the meeting will have a dual function: to decide on
whether or not the library will continue to stay open, and to gather
experience, advice and new volunteers to reinvigorate the management
committee, or help the committee find a suitable home for the collection if
the decision is taken to close.

The meeting will take place at 11am at the Feminist Library on Saturday 24th February. There will be the opportunity to look around the library and to
chat to us, followed by a more formal discussion.

Please distribute this invitation to attend as widely as possible. Feedback
from the many feminist groups and individuals who have an interest in the
library is very important to us, as well as the need to get extra help.

As a basis for discussion at the meeting, we are preparing a short document
on the library’s current plight and what our future options could be. If you
would like to receive a copy before the meeting, or have other questions, or
are considering volunteering, please contact us by email, [email protected]“

Bruce Fulton writes “The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science and the University of Arizona Office of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach are now accepting applications from students interested in a new post-baccalaureate certificate program in Digital Information Management (DigIn). DigIn will provide hands-on experience and focused instruction for people seeking new careers in or improving their skills and knowledge of digital archives, digital libraries, digital document repositories and other kinds of digital collections.

The explosion of digital information and the growth of on-line digital resources has led to a shortage of individuals with an understanding of the disciplines of libraries, document management and archives who also have the technical knowledge and skills needed to create, manage and support digital information collections. The six course 18 credit hour graduate program will provide both new students and working professionals with a balanced mix of content that includes practical applied technology skills along with a foundation in the theory and practice of building and maintaining today’s digital collections. Certificate holders will be well positioned for careers in libraries, archives, local, state and federal government and the private sector.

All coursework is online, so students will not need to take time off work or travel for courses. The program may be completed in 18-30 months and starts each summer with two required courses, Introduction to Applied Technology and Introduction to Digital Collections. The certificate program has been developed in cooperation with The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. Major funding for program development comes from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which has also provided funding for a limited number of scholarships. For more information and to apply, visit the University of Arizona Office of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach website at http://ceao.arizona.edu/dist/sirls_welcome.html. The deadline for scholarship applications and admission to the program starting this summer is March 1, 2007.”

Bruce Fulton writes “The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science and the University of Arizona Office of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach are now accepting applications from students interested in a new post-baccalaureate certificate program in Digital Information Management (DigIn). DigIn will provide hands-on experience and focused instruction for people seeking new careers in or improving their skills and knowledge of digital archives, digital libraries, digital document repositories and other kinds of digital collections.

The explosion of digital information and the growth of on-line digital resources has led to a shortage of individuals with an understanding of the disciplines of libraries, document management and archives who also have the technical knowledge and skills needed to create, manage and support digital information collections. The six course 18 credit hour graduate program will provide both new students and working professionals with a balanced mix of content that includes practical applied technology skills along with a foundation in the theory and practice of building and maintaining today’s digital collections. Certificate holders will be well positioned for careers in libraries, archives, local, state and federal government and the private sector.

All coursework is online, so students will not need to take time off work or travel for courses. The program may be completed in 18-30 months and starts each summer with two required courses, Introduction to Applied Technology and Introduction to Digital Collections. The certificate program has been developed in cooperation with The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. Major funding for program development comes from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which has also provided funding for a limited number of scholarships. For more information and to apply, visit the University of Arizona Office of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach website at http://ceao.arizona.edu/dist/sirls_welcome.html. The deadline for scholarship applications and admission to the program starting this summer is March 1, 2007.”

mdoneil writes “Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has asked two questions on yahoo answers.

When the Senator wants a discussion, to chat, to have a dialogue she knows where to go.

Anyone want to buy some computers?”