This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 23 October 2005
Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector) realizes she needs to evangelize to faculty re open access.
With all the problems others have with data migration, David Bigwood (Catalogablog) is especially thankful that MARC records are so stable. Jenn Riley (Inquiring Librarian) writes about MARC and OPACs and the need to separate data entry from data structure and darcusblog discusses bibliographic metadata and modeling references relationally.
Over at libdev, ebyryan wonders where OPACs fit within the list of Ages of finding information online.
Aaron Schmidt (walking paper) has some more info about SELU’s texting the reference desk and lists 10 points about IM in libraries. Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) posted his wishlist for chat reference software. Speaking of online reference: Steve Lawson (See Also) points to a great reference transaction on Ask MetaFilter.
Meanwhile, Christopher Harris (Infomancy) writes about undergrads: technology literate, but not necessarily information literate. Steven Bell (the Kept-Up Academic Librarian) points to an article about a student project where students help students with technology.
Jenny Levine (Shifted Librarian) announced the Games, Learning, and Libraries Symposium (December 5-6, Chicago).
Laura Solomon (Library Geek Woes) has questions about Web 2.0 and libraries. Michael Casey, at LibraryCrunch, writes about working towards a definition of Library 2.0. Oct. 24-28: Emerging Technologies: online event to discuss Web 2.0 (via) [For more about Web 2.0, check out Richard McManus’ blog, Web 2.0 Explorer]
Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) responds to Stephen Abram’s piece by applying the five stages of the Gartner Hype Cycle to LIS blogs.
Karen G. Schneider (ALA TechSource) starts a series about libraries and Hurricane Katrina.
Responses to ALA’s announcement to hold the 2006 Annual in New Orleans: Walt Crawford (Walt at Random); Michael Golrick (Thoughts From a Library Administrator)); Karen Schneider (Free Range Librarian); Fiona Bradley (Blisspix); more.
A Day in the Life: Jessamyn West (librarian.net) writes about her day; so does Amanda Robertson (Data Obsessed). John Dupuis (Confessions of a Science Librarian) resumes his series, “My job in 10 years,” with Collections pt. 2.
Michael McGrorty (Library Dust) writes, “the problem of lower starting pay is largely created by librarians to be suffered by librarians.” Speaking of jobs, Joy Weese Moll (Wanderings of a Student Librarian) points out that networking works. Doug Johnson (Blue Skunk Blog) explains what he looks for in the people he recommends for hiring as school media specialists.
Michael Lorenzen (Information Literacy Land of Confusion) writes about Machiavelli and leadership and wonders, how does one enter into evil in a library as a leader?
Andrea Mercado (LibraryTechtonics) tackles the questions, “How are libraries adapting to life in the 21st century?” and “What is the role of the library in promoting literacies?” Others respond at LISNews. Karen Schneider (Free Range Librarian) points to a Paul Gandel article about the future of libraries.
Federated search: Krafty Librarian points to an article about using a federated search engine to access ebooks. Amanda Etches-Johnson (blogwithoutalibrary) points to the blog of the Federated Search Engines and Link Resolvers working group.
Jenne (Redhaired (Future) Librarian), Angel (Gypsy Librarian), and Mark Lindner (the thoughts are broken) respond to Jakob Nielsen’s “Weblog Usability – The Top Ten Design Mistakes.”
Jane (A Wandering Eyre) wishes that college students received more than just a one hour session on library research.
In the Bookroom, the new blog from the Library Journal book reviewers, included three posts about reviewing books [1, 2, 3].
Dave Hook (Industrial Librarian) shares some lessons learned from conducting a user survey.
LibraryPlanet writes about Google Print, publishers, and libraries. Tom Peters (ALA TechSource) muses re copying and copyright. Danny Sullivan (SearchEngineWatch) writes about index versus caching & how google print doesn’t reprint.
Report: RFID and the San Francisco Public Library (pdf) (via)
Will Richardson (Weblogg-ed) responds to “Blogs are NOT a valid school subject.
knitvixen (Russet Vixen) asks re humanities researchers, do researchers not use reference librarians because they know that their expertise is not up to scratch, or because they think that it isn’t?
In a Library Journal article, Karen Glover says, “Don’t discredit my online degree.” Mark Lindner (the thoughts are broken) responds.
Follow-up: Scott McLemee, who wrote in June about the lack of blogs about academic librarianship, writes about reaction to that column and also has comments about the new ACRLog. Following the news about bloggers being denied tenure, Michael Bérubé discusses academic blogging and Mike Madison (madisonian.net) agrees with him that blogging by law professors is less frowned upon than blogging by other academics..
Follow-up: Angel (Gypsy Librarian) tackles Mark Lindner’s questions about gatekeepers and widely-read bloggers.
Follow-up: Anna (eclectic librarian) has comments re to tenure or not to tenure.
(conference notes and presentations are below the cut)
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 23 October 2005
Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector) realizes she needs to evangelize to faculty re open access.
With all the problems others have with data migration, David Bigwood (Catalogablog) is especially thankful that MARC records are so stable. Jenn Riley (Inquiring Librarian) writes about MARC and OPACs and the need to separate data entry from data structure and darcusblog discusses bibliographic metadata and modeling references relationally.
Over at libdev, ebyryan wonders where OPACs fit within the list of Ages of finding information online.
Aaron Schmidt (walking paper) has some more info about SELU’s texting the reference desk and lists 10 points about IM in libraries. Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) posted his wishlist for chat reference software. Speaking of online reference: Steve Lawson (See Also) points to a great reference transaction on Ask MetaFilter.
Meanwhile, Christopher Harris (Infomancy) writes about undergrads: technology literate, but not necessarily information literate. Steven Bell (the Kept-Up Academic Librarian) points to an article about a student project where students help students with technology.
Jenny Levine (Shifted Librarian) announced the Games, Learning, and Libraries Symposium (December 5-6, Chicago).
Laura Solomon (Library Geek Woes) has questions about Web 2.0 and libraries. Michael Casey, at LibraryCrunch, writes about working towards a definition of Library 2.0. Oct. 24-28: Emerging Technologies: online event to discuss Web 2.0 (via) [For more about Web 2.0, check out Richard McManus’ blog, Web 2.0 Explorer]
Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) responds to Stephen Abram’s piece by applying the five stages of the Gartner Hype Cycle to LIS blogs.
Karen G. Schneider (ALA TechSource) starts a series about libraries and Hurricane Katrina.
Responses to ALA’s announcement to hold the 2006 Annual in New Orleans: Walt Crawford (Walt at Random); Michael Golrick (Thoughts From a Library Administrator)); Karen Schneider (Free Range Librarian); Fiona Bradley (Blisspix); more.
A Day in the Life: Jessamyn West (librarian.net) writes about her day; so does Amanda Robertson (Data Obsessed). John Dupuis (Confessions of a Science Librarian) resumes his series, “My job in 10 years,” with Collections pt. 2.
Michael McGrorty (Library Dust) writes, “the problem of lower starting pay is largely created by librarians to be suffered by librarians.” Speaking of jobs, Joy Weese Moll (Wanderings of a Student Librarian) points out that networking works. Doug Johnson (Blue Skunk Blog) explains what he looks for in the people he recommends for hiring as school media specialists.
Michael Lorenzen (Information Literacy Land of Confusion) writes about Machiavelli and leadership and wonders, how does one enter into evil in a library as a leader?
Andrea Mercado (LibraryTechtonics) tackles the questions, “How are libraries adapting to life in the 21st century?” and “What is the role of the library in promoting literacies?” Others respond at LISNews. Karen Schneider (Free Range Librarian) points to a Paul Gandel article about the future of libraries.
Federated search: Krafty Librarian points to an article about using a federated search engine to access ebooks. Amanda Etches-Johnson (blogwithoutalibrary) points to the blog of the Federated Search Engines and Link Resolvers working group.
Jenne (Redhaired (Future) Librarian), Angel (Gypsy Librarian), and Mark Lindner (the thoughts are broken) respond to Jakob Nielsen’s “Weblog Usability – The Top Ten Design Mistakes.”
Jane (A Wandering Eyre) wishes that college students received more than just a one hour session on library research.
In the Bookroom, the new blog from the Library Journal book reviewers, included three posts about reviewing books [1, 2, 3].
Dave Hook (Industrial Librarian) shares some lessons learned from conducting a user survey.
LibraryPlanet writes about Google Print, publishers, and libraries. Tom Peters (ALA TechSource) muses re copying and copyright. Danny Sullivan (SearchEngineWatch) writes about index versus caching & how google print doesn’t reprint.
Report: RFID and the San Francisco Public Library (pdf) (via)
Will Richardson (Weblogg-ed) responds to “Blogs are NOT a valid school subject.
knitvixen (Russet Vixen) asks re humanities researchers, do researchers not use reference librarians because they know that their expertise is not up to scratch, or because they think that it isn’t?
In a Library Journal article, Karen Glover says, “Don’t discredit my online degree.” Mark Lindner (the thoughts are broken) responds.
Follow-up: Scott McLemee, who wrote in June about the lack of blogs about academic librarianship, writes about reaction to that column and also has comments about the new ACRLog. Following the news about bloggers being denied tenure, Michael Bérubé discusses academic blogging and Mike Madison (madisonian.net) agrees with him that blogging by law professors is less frowned upon than blogging by other academics..
Follow-up: Angel (Gypsy Librarian) tackles Mark Lindner’s questions about gatekeepers and widely-read bloggers.
Follow-up: Anna (eclectic librarian) has comments re to tenure or not to tenure.
(conference notes and presentations are below the cut)
Conference Notes and Presentations:
Karen G. Schneider (Free Range Librarian) posted a virtual handout for her presentation, “Blogs: Not Just Another Ugly Neologism.”
Access 2005 & Hackfest: Pam Ryan posted the winner of the Poetry Slam; conference notes from Peter Binkley (Quædam cuiusdam); Geoff Harder (blogdriverswaltz); Mark Leggott (Loomware); Paul Pival (Distant Librarian); darcusblog; Ross Singer (Dilettante’s Ball); Lorcan Dempsey; Dan Chudnov (dchud’s work log); darcusblog; Chris Hammond-Thrasher (thrashor) comments re Gene Smith’s tagging and folksonomies presentation; Flickr pool; more photos; more posts collected at Planet Access.
3rd International Evidence Based Librarianship Conference: conference blog (via)
EDUCAUSE 2005: notes from StevenB (ACRLog), who also points to blog posts on the conference’s website. More posts at the Chronicle’s Wired Campus Blog (e.g., this one and this one).
CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI4): webcasts. Notes from Jeremy (Digital Librarian) start here.
Internet Librarian: notes at the InfoToday Blog; from Michael Stephens (Tame the Web); Stephen M. Cohen (Library Stuff); Sarah Houghton (LibrarianInBlack); Elizabeth Jane Lawley (mamamusings); Aaron Schmidt (walking paper). Need more? The website has a list of bloggers who will be covering this. Another list. Blogdigger group. The Technorati and Flickr tag is IL05.
Symposium on Free Culture and the Digital Library 2005: T. Scott writes about Siva Vaidhyanathan’s and Lawrence Lessig’s talks.
Fall 2005 Phineas L. Windsor Lecture: Mark Lindner (the thoughts are broken) took notes before and during Roy Tennant’s talk.
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Always useful, lots of notes
As I looked over this week’s selection, I found myself making notes on items I want to revisit. A few of them I will likely reread and write responses to. Others have provided me with prompt ideas to write new things. No matter how much I read around, I always manage to find many new things here. Again, an excellent service to the librarian community.
Not just a question of stability but usability
If Mr Bigwood thinks that MARC records are so stable, then so are typewriters. DOS databases like dBASE were stable too, and files in DBF format can be migrated too, but its usefulness has expired. So, it’s not just a question of stability but usability.