Note: Next week’s report will be a day or two late because of the 4th of July holidays.
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending June 26, 2005
Nitro Librarian, whose library is near a middle school, explains how her library is an island in the storm.
Jenny Levine (Shifted Librarian) on blogs, voice, and reputation. Somewhat related: Karen Schneider notes that information is becoming increasingly synchronous.
Rochelle at Random Access Mazar says “radical reference is about answering questions as they emerge, where they emerge.”
thrashor’s Chris Hammond-Thrasher comments on whether ALA safeguarding its PATRIOT Act report findings on a server in Canada really puts the records outside U.S. jurisdiction.
Jessamyn (librarian.net) points to two library-related articles in the July/August issue of Utne.
Job stuff: As Michael McGrorty (Library Dust) prepared to go to Chicago for ALA Annual, he wondered about job interview questions–the good, the bad, and the ugly. Morgan Wilson at Exploded Library adds an Australian point of the view to the “library shortage” debate. Meanwhile, at Confessions of a Science Librarian, John Dupuis begins to imagine how his job will change in the next ten years.
Old guard vs. new guard: While Information Wants to be Free’s Meredith Farkas gets tired of condescending “old guard” librarians and vendors pulling the age and experience card, Millenial skagirlie over at playing in the library agrees with the Beck and Wade quote, “A boomer who can’t pick up a new computer program is basically just not trying.” More comments on the latter at Tame the Web.
Tech stuff: Before heading to ALA, Karen Schneider asked readers for their opinions about technology trends and issues. More responses at LITA Blog from Eric Lease, Sarah Houghton, Thomas Dowling, Roy Tennant, Marshall Breeding, Leo Klein, and Rick Roche. Genny at LITA Blog has a report about the ALA Top Tech panel.
re the July/August Online article, “Web-Based Chat VS. Instant Messaging” (by Aaron Schmidt and Sarah Houghton): long comments at the L-net staff information blog, lbr, Library Voice, and Digital Reference (Teaching Librarian).
Follow-up re Christopher Harris’ idea about turning RSS feeds into Marc records: comments at his blog (Infomancy), at Catalogablog, and at Library Web Chic.
Follow-up re Steven Bell’s question about where are the academic librarian bloggers: Chad Boeninger (Library Voice) explains “Why This Academic Librarian Blogs.
Con report: “Games, Learning, and Society Conference” (Madison, Wisc.): reports from Jenny Levine, June 23-24 (start here).
More SLA reports, from scitech library question and the information auditor (start here).
Tons o’ reports from ALA Chicago. A few of them are here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. A list of ALA bloggers here.
Also from ALA Chicago, several video clips of Barack Obama’s speech here.
Note: Next week’s report will be a day or two late because of the 4th of July holidays.
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending June 26, 2005
Nitro Librarian, whose library is near a middle school, explains how her library is an island in the storm.
Jenny Levine (Shifted Librarian) on blogs, voice, and reputation. Somewhat related: Karen Schneider notes that information is becoming increasingly synchronous.
Rochelle at Random Access Mazar says “radical reference is about answering questions as they emerge, where they emerge.”
thrashor’s Chris Hammond-Thrasher comments on whether ALA safeguarding its PATRIOT Act report findings on a server in Canada really puts the records outside U.S. jurisdiction.
Jessamyn (librarian.net) points to two library-related articles in the July/August issue of Utne.
Job stuff: As Michael McGrorty (Library Dust) prepared to go to Chicago for ALA Annual, he wondered about job interview questions–the good, the bad, and the ugly. Morgan Wilson at Exploded Library adds an Australian point of the view to the “library shortage” debate. Meanwhile, at Confessions of a Science Librarian, John Dupuis begins to imagine how his job will change in the next ten years.
Old guard vs. new guard: While Information Wants to be Free’s Meredith Farkas gets tired of condescending “old guard” librarians and vendors pulling the age and experience card, Millenial skagirlie over at playing in the library agrees with the Beck and Wade quote, “A boomer who can’t pick up a new computer program is basically just not trying.” More comments on the latter at Tame the Web.
Tech stuff: Before heading to ALA, Karen Schneider asked readers for their opinions about technology trends and issues. More responses at LITA Blog from Eric Lease, Sarah Houghton, Thomas Dowling, Roy Tennant, Marshall Breeding, Leo Klein, and Rick Roche. Genny at LITA Blog has a report about the ALA Top Tech panel.
re the July/August Online article, “Web-Based Chat VS. Instant Messaging” (by Aaron Schmidt and Sarah Houghton): long comments at the L-net staff information blog, lbr, Library Voice, and Digital Reference (Teaching Librarian).
Follow-up re Christopher Harris’ idea about turning RSS feeds into Marc records: comments at his blog (Infomancy), at Catalogablog, and at Library Web Chic.
Follow-up re Steven Bell’s question about where are the academic librarian bloggers: Chad Boeninger (Library Voice) explains “Why This Academic Librarian Blogs.
Con report: “Games, Learning, and Society Conference” (Madison, Wisc.): reports from Jenny Levine, June 23-24 (start here).
More SLA reports, from scitech library question and the information auditor (start here).
Tons o’ reports from ALA Chicago. A few of them are here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. A list of ALA bloggers here.
Also from ALA Chicago, several video clips of Barack Obama’s speech here.
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