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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 28, 2007
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Online learning and its impact on public libraries: Carleen (woody+wired), then Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free), then Carleen again.

lislemck (Biblioblather) just finished one of those 23 Things Challenges. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) on blogging about the library experience.

Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib) is compiling a directory of experimental library tool sites. John Miedema posted his Eight laws of library technology.

Daniel Chudnov (One Big Library) points to two articles about the World Digital Library.

K. G. Schneider (Free Range Librarian) reports on OCLC’s report on sharing, privacy, and trust.

LIBRARIANSHIP

Back in August, Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack had some thoughts about library literature. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) responds.

Lazygal (Killin’ time being lazy) has some thoughts about what it means to be a “real” school librarian.

Krafty Librarian writes about the difference between academic medical librarians and hospital librarians. Krafty Librarian also notes that librarians can help decrease hospital length of stay.

John Miedema has some thoughts as he finds himself halfway through a part-time MLIS.

A volunteer’s first encounter with AACR2. (via)

SURVEYS

Survey on middle management in libraries.

Survey on library use of and relations with mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Ebay, My Space, YouTube and others.

Survey of academic websites. (via)

SUBJECT GUIDES

From Meredith Farkas, more about 2.0 subject guides.

ODDS & ENDS

Krafty Librarian with a reminder to check your domain name expiration date. [Ed.: but watch out for fake renewal emails]

T-shirt of the week (via)

The story of the superhero librarian who rescued the children from the scary monster.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

ASIS&T 2007 (October 19-24)
– Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rant).
– Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib).

Internet Librarian 2007 (October 29-31)
– Lots o’ bloggers
– Twitter.

AASL 2007 (October 24-28)
– Christopher Harris (Infomancy).

Strategic Thinking and Planning (with Larry Seaquist) (October 19-21)
– Duane McCollum (The Information Auditor)

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 28, 2007
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Online learning and its impact on public libraries: Carleen (woody+wired), then Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free), then Carleen again.

lislemck (Biblioblather) just finished one of those 23 Things Challenges. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) on blogging about the library experience.

Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib) is compiling a directory of experimental library tool sites. John Miedema posted his Eight laws of library technology.

Daniel Chudnov (One Big Library) points to two articles about the World Digital Library.

K. G. Schneider (Free Range Librarian) reports on OCLC’s report on sharing, privacy, and trust.

LIBRARIANSHIP

Back in August, Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack had some thoughts about library literature. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) responds.

Lazygal (Killin’ time being lazy) has some thoughts about what it means to be a “real” school librarian.

Krafty Librarian writes about the difference between academic medical librarians and hospital librarians. Krafty Librarian also notes that librarians can help decrease hospital length of stay.

John Miedema has some thoughts as he finds himself halfway through a part-time MLIS.

A volunteer’s first encounter with AACR2. (via)

SURVEYS

Survey on middle management in libraries.

Survey on library use of and relations with mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Ebay, My Space, YouTube and others.

Survey of academic websites. (via)

SUBJECT GUIDES

From Meredith Farkas, more about 2.0 subject guides.

ODDS & ENDS

Krafty Librarian with a reminder to check your domain name expiration date. [Ed.: but watch out for fake renewal emails]

T-shirt of the week (via)

The story of the superhero librarian who rescued the children from the scary monster.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

ASIS&T 2007 (October 19-24)
– Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rant).
– Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib).

Internet Librarian 2007 (October 29-31)
– Lots o’ bloggers
– Twitter.

AASL 2007 (October 24-28)
– Christopher Harris (Infomancy).

Strategic Thinking and Planning (with Larry Seaquist) (October 19-21)
– Duane McCollum (The Information Auditor)

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 21, 2007
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(Sorry if some of this is old news. I didn’t read library blogs while I was otherwise occupied, so everything I’m seeing in blogs this week is new to me.)
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While preparing a speech on social media, Shel Israel (Global Neighbourhoods) asked, What should I tell the librarians? Many answers in the comments. Another comment from BrandToBeDetermined.

Christine Schwartz (Cataloging Futures) points to an article by Alan Danskin about perceived threats to the future of cataloguing. Comments from Karen Coyle (Coyle’s InFormation). Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) has a few comments about cataloguing for the users.

Mary Carmen Chimato (Circ and Serve) wrote a couple of posts about A Day in the Life of an access services librarian.

Cynthia Taylor (Nebraska Library Commission Blog) points to the Library Career Resource Center.

Agnese Caruso (Slaw) reports on a NE2007 session that listed ways to communicate the value of special librarians to management (via)

New York Times: several research libraries say no to Google/Microsoft and yes to the Open Content Alliance for their book scanning projects.

SUBJECT GUIDES

Adrienne Furness (Homeschooling and Libraries) has posted the contents of her library’s subject kits for homeschoolers.

From iLibrarian, a librarian’s guide to creating 2.0 subject guides.

INTERVIEWS

Michael Stephens points to an interview with John Blyberg

Eight librarians were interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education about the future of the library profession. via librarian.net, here’s a temporary free link to the article. For the complete interviews: the questions are here; the answers are in the podcasts: Joe Sanchez; Susan Gibbons; Nick Baker; Casey Bisson; Jessamyn West; Sarah Kostelecky; Char Booth; Brian Mathews.

BLOGGING

Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has posted the results of her 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere.

Walt Crawford (Walt at Random) has been thinking about blogging. Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has been thinking about anonymous blogging.

LIBRARY HUMOR

Stephen Abram (Stephen’s Lighthouse) lists three library comic strips (plus another two).

ODDS AND ENDS

Probably the prettiest library t-shirt: Online Medieval & Classical Library.

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 21, 2007
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(Sorry if some of this is old news. I didn’t read library blogs while I was otherwise occupied, so everything I’m seeing in blogs this week is new to me.)
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While preparing a speech on social media, Shel Israel (Global Neighbourhoods) asked, What should I tell the librarians? Many answers in the comments. Another comment from BrandToBeDetermined.

Christine Schwartz (Cataloging Futures) points to an article by Alan Danskin about perceived threats to the future of cataloguing. Comments from Karen Coyle (Coyle’s InFormation). Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) has a few comments about cataloguing for the users.

Mary Carmen Chimato (Circ and Serve) wrote a couple of posts about A Day in the Life of an access services librarian.

Cynthia Taylor (Nebraska Library Commission Blog) points to the Library Career Resource Center.

Agnese Caruso (Slaw) reports on a NE2007 session that listed ways to communicate the value of special librarians to management (via)

New York Times: several research libraries say no to Google/Microsoft and yes to the Open Content Alliance for their book scanning projects.

SUBJECT GUIDES

Adrienne Furness (Homeschooling and Libraries) has posted the contents of her library’s subject kits for homeschoolers.

From iLibrarian, a librarian’s guide to creating 2.0 subject guides.

INTERVIEWS

Michael Stephens points to an interview with John Blyberg

Eight librarians were interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education about the future of the library profession. via librarian.net, here’s a temporary free link to the article. For the complete interviews: the questions are here; the answers are in the podcasts: Joe Sanchez; Susan Gibbons; Nick Baker; Casey Bisson; Jessamyn West; Sarah Kostelecky; Char Booth; Brian Mathews.

BLOGGING

Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has posted the results of her 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere.

Walt Crawford (Walt at Random) has been thinking about blogging. Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has been thinking about anonymous blogging.

LIBRARY HUMOR

Stephen Abram (Stephen’s Lighthouse) lists three library comic strips (plus another two).

ODDS AND ENDS

Probably the prettiest library t-shirt: Online Medieval & Classical Library.

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 15, 2007
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First off, apologies for being away so long. What was supposed to be a one-week distraction stretched to six weeks. I’m about caught up on things I neglected in that time, so today’s TWiL consists mostly of odds and ends I hadn’t used yet. I expect next week’s to be more like a normal TWiL. Thanks again for your patience.

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David Shedden (Poynter Online) wrote a history of digital news from 1969 to the present.

Speaking of space-age firsts: the Gail Borden Library (Elgin, Ill.) became the first public library to host a live chat with International Space Station astronauts.

T-shirt of the Week.

Cartoons:
– Questionable Content: “Have you ever seen a gaggle of drunken librarians?”

– Real Life Comics: think before you give books as gifts (language warning).

Quotes:
– “If you were giving the scholarship to an intellectually brilliant kid who happens to play a sport, that’s fine. But they give it to a functional illiterate who can’t read a cereal box, and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills. That’s not opportunity. If you want to give financial help to minorities, go find the ones who are at the library after school.” William Dowling, Confessions of a Spoilsport. (via)

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 15, 2007
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First off, apologies for being away so long. What was supposed to be a one-week distraction stretched to six weeks. I’m about caught up on things I neglected in that time, so today’s TWiL consists mostly of odds and ends I hadn’t used yet. I expect next week’s to be more like a normal TWiL. Thanks again for your patience.

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David Shedden (Poynter Online) wrote a history of digital news from 1969 to the present.

Speaking of space-age firsts: the Gail Borden Library (Elgin, Ill.) became the first public library to host a live chat with International Space Station astronauts.

T-shirt of the Week.

Cartoons:
– Questionable Content: “Have you ever seen a gaggle of drunken librarians?”

– Real Life Comics: think before you give books as gifts (language warning).

Quotes:
– “If you were giving the scholarship to an intellectually brilliant kid who happens to play a sport, that’s fine. But they give it to a functional illiterate who can’t read a cereal box, and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills. That’s not opportunity. If you want to give financial help to minorities, go find the ones who are at the library after school.” William Dowling, Confessions of a Spoilsport. (via)

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending August 19, 2007
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I didn’t get to the library feeds this week, so here are a couple of posts that I came across elsewhere.
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Economist Douglas Galbi (purple motes) notes that public libraries outperformed video rental businesses.

Book editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Making Light) requested titles of “scholarly or reference works so bad that you must never, ever cite them, lest you be cruelly mocked by your fellows.” 500+ responses and discussion as of Sunday night.

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending August 12, 2007
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Keeping up (time management): Anne in AZ (Booktending) lists her Six Handy Steps for keeping control of your work and keeping your sanity in libraryland.

Keeping up (skills): Laura Cohen (Library 2.0) touts self-reliance. Emily Clasper (Library Revolution) lists basic computer skills every librarian should have and compares her list to that of skills required of third graders.

Keeping up (learning): it’s the first anniversary of Learning 2.0, so how about some Learning 2.1?

Keeping up (professional reading): Alyson (Chapter Two) wants to hear how other people keep up with professional issues. Fiona Bradley (Blisspix) responds. Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) found out that SAGE Publications is offering free access (through September 30th) to current and back issues of half a dozen library and information journals.

Joyce Valenza (NeverEndingSearch) lists several Booktalking 2.0 resources. Jane Jorgensen (Reader’s Advisor Online Blog) warns against scaring off patrons by making too many suggestions.

ALA is running a survey re their website’s revised wireframes.

Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) responds to Lorcan Dempsey’s re running libraries like businesses.

Martha Yee’s Written Testimony to the LC Working Group.

Fire destroys century-old prep school library.

Lots of non-librarian discussion at obscurestore.com re noise, violence, and pervs at the library.

BLOGGING

Stephenie Willen Brown (CogSci Librarian) asks, which is better, blog- or print publishing? Jim Rettig (Twilight Librarian) responds.

THE LIGHTER SIDE

Two Unshelved strips: How to find things in a library and Shelve ’em all…

Library t-shirt of the week: Evolution of a Librarian (detail)

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS

Library 2.0 on the loose (August 3)
– Kathryn Greenhill (Librarians Matter)

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending August 12, 2007
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Keeping up (time management): Anne in AZ (Booktending) lists her Six Handy Steps for keeping control of your work and keeping your sanity in libraryland.

Keeping up (skills): Laura Cohen (Library 2.0) touts self-reliance. Emily Clasper (Library Revolution) lists basic computer skills every librarian should have and compares her list to that of skills required of third graders.

Keeping up (learning): it’s the first anniversary of Learning 2.0, so how about some Learning 2.1?

Keeping up (professional reading): Alyson (Chapter Two) wants to hear how other people keep up with professional issues. Fiona Bradley (Blisspix) responds. Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) found out that SAGE Publications is offering free access (through September 30th) to current and back issues of half a dozen library and information journals.

Joyce Valenza (NeverEndingSearch) lists several Booktalking 2.0 resources. Jane Jorgensen (Reader’s Advisor Online Blog) warns against scaring off patrons by making too many suggestions.

ALA is running a survey re their website’s revised wireframes.

Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) responds to Lorcan Dempsey’s re running libraries like businesses.

Martha Yee’s Written Testimony to the LC Working Group.

Fire destroys century-old prep school library.

Lots of non-librarian discussion at obscurestore.com re noise, violence, and pervs at the library.

BLOGGING

Stephenie Willen Brown (CogSci Librarian) asks, which is better, blog- or print publishing? Jim Rettig (Twilight Librarian) responds.

THE LIGHTER SIDE

Two Unshelved strips: How to find things in a library and Shelve ’em all…

Library t-shirt of the week: Evolution of a Librarian (detail)

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS

Library 2.0 on the loose (August 3)
– Kathryn Greenhill (Librarians Matter)

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Librarians, library bloggers, commenters, and anyone else in libraryblogland who live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, please comment in reply to let us know you’re okay (or that someone we haven’t heard from is okay).

Please add a comment to this post if you have any news to share. Thanks.

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending July 29, 2007
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More talk about Maricopa County (Ariz.) and Dewey: Karen G. Schneider (ALA TechSource) (see also the discussion); Andrew Lavallee (Wall Street Journal) (comments from Jessamyn West (librarian.net).)

Jessamyn West (librarian.net) explains why the digital divide is a library issue. Joyce Valenza (NeverEndingSearch) illustrates her networks, 2005 and 2007 versions. David Lee King answers the question, Why should staff learn Library 2.0 when patrons aren’t allowed to use it on library PCs? More from Kathryn Greenhill (Librarians Matter).

The Fashion section of the New York Times had an article about hip librarians. Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free) posted her response and links to several others.

More MSM library coverage, this one from CNET News.com (via)

WPA pro-library posters (1936-1943) (via)

Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free) links to several career advice posts.

Jessamyn West (librarian.net) discusses a Wisconsin survey on library use and non-use. Comments from Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It).

BLOGGING

Do you blog? Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free) is conducting a new Survey of the Biblioblogosphere.

THE LIGHTER SIDE

Video: Grand March of the Librarians (sequel to last winter’s March of the Librarians.

xckd: Wikipedian Protester.

Paul Waelchli (Research Quest) declares Fantasy Sports the official national sport of librarians.

Library t-shirt of the week: Books are weapons.

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS

List of scheduled library-related conferences.

WiLSWorld (July 25-26)
– Michael Golrick (Thoughts from a Library Administrator)
– Multitype Librarian.

Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium (GLLS) (July 22-24)
– Paul Waelchli (Research Quest)
– Michelle Boule (A Wandering Eyre)
– Beth Gallaway (Game On: Games in Libraries)

ALA Annual Conference 2007 (June 21-27)
– Wade Wyckoff (WadingIn)

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending July 29, 2007
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More talk about Maricopa County (Ariz.) and Dewey: Karen G. Schneider (ALA TechSource) (see also the discussion); Andrew Lavallee (Wall Street Journal) (comments from Jessamyn West (librarian.net).)

Jessamyn West (librarian.net) explains why the digital divide is a library issue. Joyce Valenza (NeverEndingSearch) illustrates her networks, 2005 and 2007 versions. David Lee King answers the question, Why should staff learn Library 2.0 when patrons aren’t allowed to use it on library PCs? More from Kathryn Greenhill (Librarians Matter).

The Fashion section of the New York Times had an article about hip librarians. Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free) posted her response and links to several others.

More MSM library coverage, this one from CNET News.com (via)

WPA pro-library posters (1936-1943) (via)

Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free) links to several career advice posts.

Jessamyn West (librarian.net) discusses a Wisconsin survey on library use and non-use. Comments from Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It).

BLOGGING

Do you blog? Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free) is conducting a new Survey of the Biblioblogosphere.

THE LIGHTER SIDE

Video: Grand March of the Librarians (sequel to last winter’s March of the Librarians.

xckd: Wikipedian Protester.

Paul Waelchli (Research Quest) declares Fantasy Sports the official national sport of librarians.

Library t-shirt of the week: Books are weapons.

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS

List of scheduled library-related conferences.

WiLSWorld (July 25-26)
– Michael Golrick (Thoughts from a Library Administrator)
– Multitype Librarian.

Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium (GLLS) (July 22-24)
– Paul Waelchli (Research Quest)
– Michelle Boule (A Wandering Eyre)
– Beth Gallaway (Game On: Games in Libraries)

ALA Annual Conference 2007 (June 21-27)
– Wade Wyckoff (WadingIn)

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When I left on vacation, I forgot that I would be coming back to a midnight Harry Potter event and a weekend shift. So, This Week in LibraryBlogLand will return one week later than I’d said. Sorry about the delay. The next issue will appear on Monday, July 30.