This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending June 3, 2007
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Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack) has been thinking about social networks and “friending.” Lots more from Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free).
Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) a short discussion of the frustrations of finding JSTOR articles on Google searches when your library doesn’t subscribe to JSTOR. He also discusses reference services and Twitter.
Hedgehog Librarian responds to Money Magazine’s article about Attracting the twentysomething worker.
Katie Dunneback (Young Librarian) on achieving–and defining–success
Katherine Gould (PVLD Director’s Blog) discusses her library’s current classification and compensation study.
There’s some discussion at LibrarianInBlack’s about Maricopa County’s Dewey-less branch. More from Bo Kinney (The Letter Z) and Emily Clasper [more] (Library Revolution).
Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has some thoughts about change, transparency, and customer relations.
CATALOGING
Planet Cataloging: a new “automatically-generated aggregation of blogs related to cataloging and metadata.”
Christine Schwartz (Cataloging Futures) has a short response to Jennifer Lang’s article about Google as a cataloguing aid. Wade Wyckoff (WadingIn) has also been using Google as a cataloguing tool.
Jonathan Rochkind (Bibliographic Wilderness) explains how “our current metadata environment is seriously and fundamentally broken in several ways.”
Christine Schwartz also has a short response to Roy Tennant’s article about hanging out with catalogers.
LIBRARIAN EDUCATION
Christine Schwartz (Cataloging Futures) asks, What skills do traditional catalogers lack for becoming metadata librarians?
Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) wonders why library schools don’t encourage students to keep up with the literature.
What did you learn in library school? Answers from Jeff Scott (Gather No Dust) and Emily Clasper (Library Revolution).
OTHER LIBRARYBLOGLANDS
– Singapore LibraryBlogLand
– Australian library blogland
ODDS & ENDS
lolbrarians (huh?)
The April 2007 issue of Making Spaces, the online newsletter of the Project for Public Spaces, focused on libraries.
Via Techdirt: According to the Library of Congress, saying that your product is better than theirs constitutes endorsement, and that’s not allowed.
For the Doctor Who fans: BBC Wales will be filming scenes of Sarah Jane Adventures in Cardiff University’s Science Library on June 8.
CONFERENCES NOTES & PRESENTATIONS
Mid-Atlantic Library Futures Conference (May 7-8, 2007)
– website
– Three interview videos taped by Phil Bowerman (Speculist): If I live to be 100 – The future of libraries – Futures, past, present.
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday. [Feeds]
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending June 3, 2007
……….
Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack) has been thinking about social networks and “friending.” Lots more from Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free).
Stephen Francoeur (Digital Reference) a short discussion of the frustrations of finding JSTOR articles on Google searches when your library doesn’t subscribe to JSTOR. He also discusses reference services and Twitter.
Hedgehog Librarian responds to Money Magazine’s article about Attracting the twentysomething worker.
Katie Dunneback (Young Librarian) on achieving–and defining–success
Katherine Gould (PVLD Director’s Blog) discusses her library’s current classification and compensation study.
There’s some discussion at LibrarianInBlack’s about Maricopa County’s Dewey-less branch. More from Bo Kinney (The Letter Z) and Emily Clasper [more] (Library Revolution).
Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has some thoughts about change, transparency, and customer relations.
CATALOGING
Planet Cataloging: a new “automatically-generated aggregation of blogs related to cataloging and metadata.”
Christine Schwartz (Cataloging Futures) has a short response to Jennifer Lang’s article about Google as a cataloguing aid. Wade Wyckoff (WadingIn) has also been using Google as a cataloguing tool.
Jonathan Rochkind (Bibliographic Wilderness) explains how “our current metadata environment is seriously and fundamentally broken in several ways.”
Christine Schwartz also has a short response to Roy Tennant’s article about hanging out with catalogers.
LIBRARIAN EDUCATION
Christine Schwartz (Cataloging Futures) asks, What skills do traditional catalogers lack for becoming metadata librarians?
Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) wonders why library schools don’t encourage students to keep up with the literature.
What did you learn in library school? Answers from Jeff Scott (Gather No Dust) and Emily Clasper (Library Revolution).
OTHER LIBRARYBLOGLANDS
– Singapore LibraryBlogLand
– Australian library blogland
ODDS & ENDS
lolbrarians (huh?)
The April 2007 issue of Making Spaces, the online newsletter of the Project for Public Spaces, focused on libraries.
Via Techdirt: According to the Library of Congress, saying that your product is better than theirs constitutes endorsement, and that’s not allowed.
For the Doctor Who fans: BBC Wales will be filming scenes of Sarah Jane Adventures in Cardiff University’s Science Library on June 8.
CONFERENCES NOTES & PRESENTATIONS
Mid-Atlantic Library Futures Conference (May 7-8, 2007)
– website
– Three interview videos taped by Phil Bowerman (Speculist): If I live to be 100 – The future of libraries – Futures, past, present.
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday. [Feeds]
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