This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending December 17, 2006
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Note (corrected): TWiL will return on January 8.
lib-web-cats (a directory of libraries throughout the world) now has a powerful search engine. About.
meebo feels the librarian love. (via)
Rikhei (Nevertheless…) has no love for QuestionPoint; Caleb (L-net staff information blog) points out the problem with it; while Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) loves the service, not the software.
Suzi (CFLC Currents) posted a list of websites and mailing lists useful for reference work. Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) posted the list of links that should’ve gone with his article about “Firefox at the Reference Desk.”
Jon-Lenois Savage (L3NOIS) explains RSS in ASL (American Sign Language) (via)
OPL Plus points to an article about taking passwords to the grave. Speaking of passwords: MySpace passwords aren’t so dumb (via).
Annoyed Librarian muses on tenure, publishing, and scholarship.
Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector) writes about blogs v. journals as learning/discovery/recommendation systems. Comment from washtublibrarian.
Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) lists the techie blogs he reads. From Dave Pattern, an up-to-date biblioblogosphere tag cloud.
Judith A. Siess (OPL Plus) points to Avinash Kaushik’s list of Top Ten Blogging Tips/Insights and Steve Matthews (Vancouver Law Librarian Blog) points to Kevin O’Keefe’s 9 keys to networking via blogs for introverts.
About Casey Bisson’s WordPress-based open-source OPAC: Tim (Thing-ology); Dan Chudnov (One Big Library); washtublibrarian; Library 2.0 Gang discussion podcast.
Tim (Thing-ology) proposes bringing back Cutter Classification “as the first free, open and socially assisted classification system.”
Iris Jastram (Pegasus Librarian) reports that the NGC4Lib mailing list have decided to create an open database of book cover images.
The Annoyed Librarian is annoyed about ALA’s Ambassador program.
Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) writes about the accessibility of resources in digital repositories.
Laura Cohen (Library 2.0) has many thoughts about transforming academic library websites. StevenB (ACRLog) asks, is the itinerant academic librarian in our future?
Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector) sees “a ton of downside” for publishers in Google’s offer to digitize journal backruns for free.
Laura Cohen (Library 2.0) asks, should library administrators have hands-on technical skills?
Laura Solomon (Library Geek Woes) says, how realistic is libraries’ goal to become the virtual center of the community?
T. Scott has comments re hospital librarians, open access, and myths and truths about library services.
Richard Akerman (Science Library Pad) comments on a Globe and Mail article about library online media loans.
Scau on library_grrls (Livejournal) asks how to convince people that librarians “do more than just putting books away.” The libraries Livejournal community has job prospect advice for a jittery new-librarian-to-be.
LISTS
John Hubbard (Library Link of the Day) posted on LISNews the Ten Stories That Shaped 2006.
Read/Write Web has an article about 2006 Web Technology Trends (via)
THE LIGHTER SIDE
Iris Jastram (Pegasus Librarian) has found the difference between librarians and web programmers.
T-shirts: CarlsonJJ’s Library Gear.
Cartoon: Web 3.0.
CONFERENCE META
Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector) has some hints for making slides with Apple Keynote.
StevenB (ACRLog) wonders whether the Internet is leading to higher expectations for presentations.
CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS
– Libraries, IT and Everything (December 15, 2006).
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday. [Feeds]
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending December 17, 2006
……….
Note (corrected): TWiL will return on January 8.
lib-web-cats (a directory of libraries throughout the world) now has a powerful search engine. About.
meebo feels the librarian love. (via)
Rikhei (Nevertheless…) has no love for QuestionPoint; Caleb (L-net staff information blog) points out the problem with it; while Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) loves the service, not the software.
Suzi (CFLC Currents) posted a list of websites and mailing lists useful for reference work. Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) posted the list of links that should’ve gone with his article about “Firefox at the Reference Desk.”
Jon-Lenois Savage (L3NOIS) explains RSS in ASL (American Sign Language) (via)
OPL Plus points to an article about taking passwords to the grave. Speaking of passwords: MySpace passwords aren’t so dumb (via).
Annoyed Librarian muses on tenure, publishing, and scholarship.
Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector) writes about blogs v. journals as learning/discovery/recommendation systems. Comment from washtublibrarian.
Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) lists the techie blogs he reads. From Dave Pattern, an up-to-date biblioblogosphere tag cloud.
Judith A. Siess (OPL Plus) points to Avinash Kaushik’s list of Top Ten Blogging Tips/Insights and Steve Matthews (Vancouver Law Librarian Blog) points to Kevin O’Keefe’s 9 keys to networking via blogs for introverts.
About Casey Bisson’s WordPress-based open-source OPAC: Tim (Thing-ology); Dan Chudnov (One Big Library); washtublibrarian; Library 2.0 Gang discussion podcast.
Tim (Thing-ology) proposes bringing back Cutter Classification “as the first free, open and socially assisted classification system.”
Iris Jastram (Pegasus Librarian) reports that the NGC4Lib mailing list have decided to create an open database of book cover images.
The Annoyed Librarian is annoyed about ALA’s Ambassador program.
Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) writes about the accessibility of resources in digital repositories.
Laura Cohen (Library 2.0) has many thoughts about transforming academic library websites. StevenB (ACRLog) asks, is the itinerant academic librarian in our future?
Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector) sees “a ton of downside” for publishers in Google’s offer to digitize journal backruns for free.
Laura Cohen (Library 2.0) asks, should library administrators have hands-on technical skills?
Laura Solomon (Library Geek Woes) says, how realistic is libraries’ goal to become the virtual center of the community?
T. Scott has comments re hospital librarians, open access, and myths and truths about library services.
Richard Akerman (Science Library Pad) comments on a Globe and Mail article about library online media loans.
Scau on library_grrls (Livejournal) asks how to convince people that librarians “do more than just putting books away.” The libraries Livejournal community has job prospect advice for a jittery new-librarian-to-be.
LISTS
John Hubbard (Library Link of the Day) posted on LISNews the Ten Stories That Shaped 2006.
Read/Write Web has an article about 2006 Web Technology Trends (via)
THE LIGHTER SIDE
Iris Jastram (Pegasus Librarian) has found the difference between librarians and web programmers.
T-shirts: CarlsonJJ’s Library Gear.
Cartoon: Web 3.0.
CONFERENCE META
Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector) has some hints for making slides with Apple Keynote.
StevenB (ACRLog) wonders whether the Internet is leading to higher expectations for presentations.
CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS
– Libraries, IT and Everything (December 15, 2006).
………………..
This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday. [Feeds]
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