This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 17 September 2005
Sorry about the past couple of weeks. I started a couple of new projects, which took extra time in start-up, and then my mouse-related elbow trouble flared up, which slowed everything down. But I’m back now.
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Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) explains that finding a job is about as difficult as finding love. Betsy, one of the Librarians at the Gate writes about starting library school.
Should your blog’s feed be full-text or summary-based? Steven Cohen (LibraryStuff) notes the effects on his site stats.
Meredith Farkas has posted the results of her Survey of the Bibioblogosphere in four parts: Demographics, Blog Demographics, Attitudes and Behaviors, and Why We Blog. Joy at Wanderings of a Student Librarian writes about what she won’t blog about.
Morgan Wilson (explodedlibrary.info) writes about the right to link. More here.
Angel, the Gypsy Librarian, has been thinking about leadership.
Library Dust’s Michael McGrorty found, yet again, library books in the second-hand store. Tara Murray, the DIY Librarian, on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s article about Saving Secondhand Bookstores.
TangognaT points to a Low Road guest entry about comics and libraries where the author says: “As someone who wants to encourage fine work in graphic novel publishing—not to mention the graphic novel writers and designers themselves—shouldn’t I buy them myself, rather than borrow them?” Steven Cohen (Library Stuff) asks, given the current climate re copyright and IP, would libraries as we know them exist if they were being invented now?
Loomware’s Mark Leggott points to a summary on how to determine when items fall into the public domain. Misseli at Confessions of a Mad Librarian blogged a talk by law professor Tyler Ochoa about the Grokster decision. whitneydt, the :30 Librarian, tried to use her (his?) new digital audio player and ran against the limits of copyright law.
Mary Minow at LibraryLaw Blog writes about letter from the government, gag orders, and new ACLU petition.
Peter Morville, one of the authors of the polar bear book, has a blog about findability. Luke Rosenberger (lbr) writes about it. Rikhei, the Lethal Librarian, responds to Thomas Mann’s article about Google keywords and LC cataloging/classification.
If, as Stephen Robertson of Microsoft Research Cambridge says, the first generation of information retrieval operated on Boolean principles and the second generation provide relevance-ranked lists, what’s the third generation? Jenn Riley, the Inquiring Librarian, wonders whether it will be grouping in search results. Dave Hook, the Industrial Librarian, discusses the psychology of search.
Michael Stephens discovers tag clouds. So does Joy Weese Moll.
Andrea Mercado reviews the Target online Book Club.
Peter Welsch at Sampo blogged Jessamyn’s West’s Sept. 16 talk at the Indiana Library Federation Reference Division Meeting. Marydee Ojala at ONLINE Insider also blogged Jessamyn’s talk (“Sensible Approaches to Technology in Libraries”) as well as Scott Pfitzinger’s presentation (“Hot New Communication Tools for Reference”).
David Bigwood (Catalogablog) has posted an MP3 of his upcoming talk, Free MARC Tools.
Fiona Bradley (Blisspix) has a short write-up about the Research Applications in Information and Library Studies Seminar (RAILS2) at the National Library in Canberra.
Carleen Huxley (Library Shrine), soon to be NextGen librarian, is “very much at odds with this label and the group of people who seem to be leading it.”
After reading the book, The Experience Economy, by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, David (dave’s blog) King wrote a five part series about experience planning.
Joy Weese Moll thinks about professional culture and organizational culture.
Chris Jowaisas at TechnoBiblio has some thoughts about usage of OPAC stations at libraries.
Christina (Christina’s LIS Rant) has more on IM at the reference desk.
Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) paid a virtual visit to the State Library of Australia via Skype and Jybe.
Rochelle “Random Access” Mazar writes about academic librarians, faculty status, and how faculty relate to librarians. A couple of weeks ago, Robert Hadden wrote on LIBREF-L about the Public Librarian as Local Intellectual.
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on LISNews.com every Monday before noon (Central time).
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 17 September 2005
Sorry about the past couple of weeks. I started a couple of new projects, which took extra time in start-up, and then my mouse-related elbow trouble flared up, which slowed everything down. But I’m back now.
……………………………..
Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) explains that finding a job is about as difficult as finding love. Betsy, one of the Librarians at the Gate writes about starting library school.
Should your blog’s feed be full-text or summary-based? Steven Cohen (LibraryStuff) notes the effects on his site stats.
Meredith Farkas has posted the results of her Survey of the Bibioblogosphere in four parts: Demographics, Blog Demographics, Attitudes and Behaviors, and Why We Blog. Joy at Wanderings of a Student Librarian writes about what she won’t blog about.
Morgan Wilson (explodedlibrary.info) writes about the right to link. More here.
Angel, the Gypsy Librarian, has been thinking about leadership.
Library Dust’s Michael McGrorty found, yet again, library books in the second-hand store. Tara Murray, the DIY Librarian, on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s article about Saving Secondhand Bookstores.
TangognaT points to a Low Road guest entry about comics and libraries where the author says: “As someone who wants to encourage fine work in graphic novel publishing—not to mention the graphic novel writers and designers themselves—shouldn’t I buy them myself, rather than borrow them?” Steven Cohen (Library Stuff) asks, given the current climate re copyright and IP, would libraries as we know them exist if they were being invented now?
Loomware’s Mark Leggott points to a summary on how to determine when items fall into the public domain. Misseli at Confessions of a Mad Librarian blogged a talk by law professor Tyler Ochoa about the Grokster decision. whitneydt, the :30 Librarian, tried to use her (his?) new digital audio player and ran against the limits of copyright law.
Mary Minow at LibraryLaw Blog writes about letter from the government, gag orders, and new ACLU petition.
Peter Morville, one of the authors of the polar bear book, has a blog about findability. Luke Rosenberger (lbr) writes about it. Rikhei, the Lethal Librarian, responds to Thomas Mann’s article about Google keywords and LC cataloging/classification.
If, as Stephen Robertson of Microsoft Research Cambridge says, the first generation of information retrieval operated on Boolean principles and the second generation provide relevance-ranked lists, what’s the third generation? Jenn Riley, the Inquiring Librarian, wonders whether it will be grouping in search results. Dave Hook, the Industrial Librarian, discusses the psychology of search.
Michael Stephens discovers tag clouds. So does Joy Weese Moll.
Andrea Mercado reviews the Target online Book Club.
Peter Welsch at Sampo blogged Jessamyn’s West’s Sept. 16 talk at the Indiana Library Federation Reference Division Meeting. Marydee Ojala at ONLINE Insider also blogged Jessamyn’s talk (“Sensible Approaches to Technology in Libraries”) as well as Scott Pfitzinger’s presentation (“Hot New Communication Tools for Reference”).
David Bigwood (Catalogablog) has posted an MP3 of his upcoming talk, Free MARC Tools.
Fiona Bradley (Blisspix) has a short write-up about the Research Applications in Information and Library Studies Seminar (RAILS2) at the National Library in Canberra.
Carleen Huxley (Library Shrine), soon to be NextGen librarian, is “very much at odds with this label and the group of people who seem to be leading it.”
After reading the book, The Experience Economy, by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, David (dave’s blog) King wrote a five part series about experience planning.
Joy Weese Moll thinks about professional culture and organizational culture.
Chris Jowaisas at TechnoBiblio has some thoughts about usage of OPAC stations at libraries.
Christina (Christina’s LIS Rant) has more on IM at the reference desk.
Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) paid a virtual visit to the State Library of Australia via Skype and Jybe.
Rochelle “Random Access” Mazar writes about academic librarians, faculty status, and how faculty relate to librarians. A couple of weeks ago, Robert Hadden wrote on LIBREF-L about the Public Librarian as Local Intellectual.
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on LISNews.com every Monday before noon (Central time).
Glad you are back
Just glad to see the Week in Blogland feature. It always brightens my blog reading since you always manage to find interesting things as well as some curious ones that may otherwise slip under the radar. Do keep it up and best.
Re:Glad you are back
I’m glad this is back too, I’m always finding some posts that I’ve missed in the previous week.