This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending June 12, 2005
Ivan Chew, The Rambling Librarian, suggests that public librarians should act as “‘creative information consultants’ to users rather than just ‘information technicians’.”
Speaking of creative: storytelling on the commuter train.
Scott McLemee asks, Where are the academic librarian bloggers? Responses from Steven Bell, Meredith Farkas, Karen Coombs, Caveat Lector, TangognaT, and Jane.
On a related note, Rochelle at Random Access Mazar notes that academics who blog end up with larger audiences and new problems.
Karen Schneider tackles the question of how Michael Gorman got elected. Greg McClay, at SHUSH, responds.
At Dilettante’s Ball, Ross Singer reports on the NAAUG-SMUG 2005 Annual Conference.
from Singapore, a library patron’s paean to her local library.
Rochelle at Tinfoil + Raccoon says she’s not a huge fan of summer reading programs.
At TechnoBiblio, Stephanie Wright sees the American Chemical Society’s attempts to restrict PubChem as yet another example of a dangerous trend.
Steven Cohen at the PLA Blog interviews Lynn Dennis, of the Roselle (Ill.) Public Library about the library’s Blogger Book Club.
Follow-up: Luke Rosenberger at lbr responds to Karen Schneider re Wikipedia.
On the lighter side, Hong Te at Marginal Librarian (Vol. 12 no. 2) offers “a list of three of my favorite librarians who had a hand in saving the world.”
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending June 12, 2005
Ivan Chew, The Rambling Librarian, suggests that public librarians should act as “‘creative information consultants’ to users rather than just ‘information technicians’.”
Speaking of creative: storytelling on the commuter train.
Scott McLemee asks, Where are the academic librarian bloggers? Responses from Steven Bell, Meredith Farkas, Karen Coombs, Caveat Lector, TangognaT, and Jane.
On a related note, Rochelle at Random Access Mazar notes that academics who blog end up with larger audiences and new problems.
Karen Schneider tackles the question of how Michael Gorman got elected. Greg McClay, at SHUSH, responds.
At Dilettante’s Ball, Ross Singer reports on the NAAUG-SMUG 2005 Annual Conference.
from Singapore, a library patron’s paean to her local library.
Rochelle at Tinfoil + Raccoon says she’s not a huge fan of summer reading programs.
At TechnoBiblio, Stephanie Wright sees the American Chemical Society’s attempts to restrict PubChem as yet another example of a dangerous trend.
Steven Cohen at the PLA Blog interviews Lynn Dennis, of the Roselle (Ill.) Public Library about the library’s Blogger Book Club.
Follow-up: Luke Rosenberger at lbr responds to Karen Schneider re Wikipedia.
On the lighter side, Hong Te at Marginal Librarian (Vol. 12 no. 2) offers “a list of three of my favorite librarians who had a hand in saving the world.”
Great Summary
“People (not just academics) have read what this guy has written. How many academics can say that? How many academics actually have some reach into the world at large? “
-From Rochelle’s post. Lovely question.
Luke Rosenberger’s post is wonderful reading, I think Karen & Luke are two of the best writers we have.
Keep the “This Week in LibraryBlogLand” coming!
Gatekeepers, Free Rangers and Ranganathan’s
The Schneider Rosenberger exchange is wonderful, a must read, and proof positive there is some wonderfully insightful writing being done by bloggers. I think I’d tend to agree more with Rosenberger on this. For whatever that’s worth.
It’s funny, I just started to type “this would make a wonderful journal article” but I stopped, because I can’t imagine why that would help. Taking this to a printed journal would make it less useful. We’d lose the ability to comment, it would take 6 months to get printed, and it probably wouldn’t be read by as many people: “People (not just academics) have read what this guy has written. How many academics can say that? How many academics actually have some reach into the world at large?”
So I think this would lose something being printed. I hope Schneider is working on a reply! [not to me, but to Rosenberger]
Re:Great Summary
Thanks! I’m finding a lot of good stuff out there.