This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending June 19, 2005
Linda Absher, The Lipstick Librarian, asks, Where is the true library visionary?? Anna (the eclectric librarian), doesn’t believe we need a new Ranganathan yet.
In response to “Silence in the Stacks,” John Dupuis argues that a community of academic librarian bloggers already exists among scitech librarians.
In response to Daniel Brandt’s FOIA request, the University of Michigan has posted its digitization contract with Google [pdf]. Comments from Brandt and Jessamyn.
Michael McGrorty (Library Dust) explains the need for libraries to reach out to those who need it most but won’t/can’t come in. Ivan Chew (Rambling Librarian) agrees that, although it can be disheartening work, “we public service librarians just have to do it, because no one else will.”
Tom Morris sent the British Library several questions about their reader privacy policies. The BL replied.
A while back, Steven Cohen (Library Stuff) wrote that he considers Information Overload (IO) to be a myth. In reply, Steve Matthews (Vancouver Law Librarian) defines IO as “the negotiation between information want & need.”
The Henderson District (Nev.) Public Libraries broke the Guinness World Reading Record: 100 hours (and 33 minutes) of continous out-loud reading. Blog. Photoblog.
Michael McGrorty suggests that public libraries and county agencies need to work together to provide services to the homeless.
Liz Burns at Pop Goes the Library wishes that people who know nothing about YA lit and can’t even be bothered to read it would stop judging it.
Alane at It’s all good asks, “Why, oh why, have librarians not been busy building recommender systems for their collections?”
Infomancy’s Christopher Harris wonders if we couldn’t “create an automated script that would process an RSS feed and convert it into a MARC record to upload into our catalog.”
In response to Rochelle re summer reading programs, Greg (Open Stacks) explains [mp3, at 5:00] that the programs’ main goal is to help public libraries survive by boosting stats.
Conference reports:
– SLA 2005: here, here, here (June 11-15), here, and here.
– CLA 2005: here and here.
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending June 19, 2005
Linda Absher, The Lipstick Librarian, asks, Where is the true library visionary?? Anna (the eclectric librarian), doesn’t believe we need a new Ranganathan yet.
In response to “Silence in the Stacks,” John Dupuis argues that a community of academic librarian bloggers already exists among scitech librarians.
In response to Daniel Brandt’s FOIA request, the University of Michigan has posted its digitization contract with Google [pdf]. Comments from Brandt and Jessamyn.
Michael McGrorty (Library Dust) explains the need for libraries to reach out to those who need it most but won’t/can’t come in. Ivan Chew (Rambling Librarian) agrees that, although it can be disheartening work, “we public service librarians just have to do it, because no one else will.”
Tom Morris sent the British Library several questions about their reader privacy policies. The BL replied.
A while back, Steven Cohen (Library Stuff) wrote that he considers Information Overload (IO) to be a myth. In reply, Steve Matthews (Vancouver Law Librarian) defines IO as “the negotiation between information want & need.”
The Henderson District (Nev.) Public Libraries broke the Guinness World Reading Record: 100 hours (and 33 minutes) of continous out-loud reading. Blog. Photoblog.
Michael McGrorty suggests that public libraries and county agencies need to work together to provide services to the homeless.
Liz Burns at Pop Goes the Library wishes that people who know nothing about YA lit and can’t even be bothered to read it would stop judging it.
Alane at It’s all good asks, “Why, oh why, have librarians not been busy building recommender systems for their collections?”
Infomancy’s Christopher Harris wonders if we couldn’t “create an automated script that would process an RSS feed and convert it into a MARC record to upload into our catalog.”
In response to Rochelle re summer reading programs, Greg (Open Stacks) explains [mp3, at 5:00] that the programs’ main goal is to help public libraries survive by boosting stats.
Conference reports:
– SLA 2005: here, here, here (June 11-15), here, and here.
– CLA 2005: here and here.
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