This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending July 4, 2005
Two on the joys of librarianship: Librarian Lia, formerly from the corporate world, believes the pay cut was worth it, and the Feel-good Librarian emphasizes the good we manage to do despite the generation clash and libraries’ changing place in society.
Scott Douglas (McSweeney’s) posted the latest of his Dispatches from a Public Librarian. Chad Boeninger at Library Voice responds to the part about social software.
Confessions of a Science Librarian’s John Dupuis continues to look at what his job might be like in ten years.
Grokster decision: Statement from the Library Copyright Alliance. Eric Goldman summarizes law blog reactions.
Sixty years after Vannevar Bush proposed the Memex (“a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility”), Art Rhyno (LibraryCog) looks at how the web is/isn’t meeting Bush’s goals.
A British Library report projects a switch from print to digital publishing by the year 2020. Walt Crawford (Walt at Random) responds.
Luke Rosenberger connects Chris Anderson’s “Long Tail,” Ranganathan’s Third Law, and Chris Dodge’s two recent articles in Utne.
Rochelle at Random Access Mazar talks about keeping a blog and keeping your job. More on the topic from Caveat Lector, Samantha (Distance Education Library Services) and Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free).
Library Dust’s Michael McGrorty responds to Councilor Jim Casey’s comments about the Allied Professional Association.
Follow-up: Chad Boeninger agrees with Rochelle Mazar’s post about radical reference.
Follow-up: Rikhei discusses Sarah Houghton and Aaron Schmidt’s ONLINE article re web chat versus IM.
Shifted Librarian reports further on the Games, Learning, and Society Conference (see also webcasts).
Christina Wodtke (elegant hack) reports (starts June 28) on Vertical LEAP, a search engine conference.
ALA 2005 (June 23-29):
[More below the cut]
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending July 4, 2005
Two on the joys of librarianship: Librarian Lia, formerly from the corporate world, believes the pay cut was worth it, and the Feel-good Librarian emphasizes the good we manage to do despite the generation clash and libraries’ changing place in society.
Scott Douglas (McSweeney’s) posted the latest of his Dispatches from a Public Librarian. Chad Boeninger at Library Voice responds to the part about social software.
Confessions of a Science Librarian’s John Dupuis continues to look at what his job might be like in ten years.
Grokster decision: Statement from the Library Copyright Alliance. Eric Goldman summarizes law blog reactions.
Sixty years after Vannevar Bush proposed the Memex (“a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility”), Art Rhyno (LibraryCog) looks at how the web is/isn’t meeting Bush’s goals.
A British Library report projects a switch from print to digital publishing by the year 2020. Walt Crawford (Walt at Random) responds.
Luke Rosenberger connects Chris Anderson’s “Long Tail,” Ranganathan’s Third Law, and Chris Dodge’s two recent articles in Utne.
Rochelle at Random Access Mazar talks about keeping a blog and keeping your job. More on the topic from Caveat Lector, Samantha (Distance Education Library Services) and Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free).
Library Dust’s Michael McGrorty responds to Councilor Jim Casey’s comments about the Allied Professional Association.
Follow-up: Chad Boeninger agrees with Rochelle Mazar’s post about radical reference.
Follow-up: Rikhei discusses Sarah Houghton and Aaron Schmidt’s ONLINE article re web chat versus IM.
Shifted Librarian reports further on the Games, Learning, and Society Conference (see also webcasts).
Christina Wodtke (elegant hack) reports (starts June 28) on Vertical LEAP, a search engine conference.
ALA 2005 (June 23-29):
[More below the cut]
Session reports and some informal reports (scroll down) at PLA Blog, LITA Blog, Shifted Librarian, Information Wants To Be Free, James B. Casey (on Library Juice), Wanderings of a Student Librarian, and ALA Chicago Wiki.
More reports at viaProni, librarian.net, lisdom, Walt at Random, ONLINE Insider, Tinfoil + Raccoon, Hidden Peanuts, A Wandering Eyre, Samantha, and the Dewey Blog. Photos: Tame the Web, Flickr.
OCLC’s Blogger Salon: It’s all good (lots of photos), Library Stuff, BlogJunction, A Wandering Eyre, LITA Blog, Information Wants To Be Free, and ALA Chicago Wiki. The Song by Joe Anderson [about the song.] More photos: Rikhei, Michael Stephens, Shifted Librarian, bentley.
Book Cart Drill Team Championship: UW-Madison SLIS Laboratory Library (lots of photos), Flickr, WisBlawg, Demco.com, and ALA Chicago Wiki. Two paragraphs in the ALA press release.
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