This Week in LibraryBlogLand (March 19, 2007)

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending March 18

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Karen G. Schneider (ALA TechSource) writes a letter to the Library of Congress re its bibliographic control public meeting at Google headquarters. Response from John Berry (Blatant Berry Blog). [see also Conferences, below]

Alec (Librarians at the Gate) writes on his library’s comprehensive weeding plan.

Tangognat points to a Chronicle of Higher Education article about the free-ness of interlibrary loans.

Christopher Harris (Infomancy) started a classification discussion when he asked why folktales and fairy tales are shelved as non-fiction.

After a particularly unpopular change at her library, Rochelle Hartman (Tinfoil + Raccoon) wonders, when should a library try something new if patrons have not expressed a desire for change.

Archivist Jeanne Kramer-Smyth (Spellbound Blog) has some thoughts about how Google’s new log retention policy could affect future historians.

San Jose State’s SLIS Associate Director (slis21) has made the school’s 312pp. re-accreditation self-study available for download

BLOGGING

Rochelle Hartman (Tinfoil + Raccoon) posted links to the “16 much-visited librarian bloggers” featured in the March American Libraries.

LIGHTER SIDE:

Analog tagging.

– Fun with WorldCat and del.icio.us: Lorcan Dempsey links to the list of Top 1000 Works in WorldCat.

CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS

Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (March 8)
– (see also posts at the top of this TWiL).
– many detailed notes from Karen Coyle (Coyle’s InFormation)
– thoughts and report from Andrew K. Pace (Hectic Page) before and after.
Brief Meeting Summary on the LOC website.

Five Weeks to a Social Library (Feb. 12 – March 17)
blogs, course.

Discussion at the Buena Vista Branch of the Burbank Public Library (March 14)
– report from George (It’s all good)

L2 unconference Melbourne (March 2)
unconference blog
– report from Michelle McLean (Connecting Librarian)
– report from Genevieve Tucker (reeling and writhing)

unconference for Western Australian libraryland (date tba)
– planning report from Kathryn Greenhill (Librarians Matter)

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending March 18

……….

Karen G. Schneider (ALA TechSource) writes a letter to the Library of Congress re its bibliographic control public meeting at Google headquarters. Response from John Berry (Blatant Berry Blog). [see also Conferences, below]

Alec (Librarians at the Gate) writes on his library’s comprehensive weeding plan.

Tangognat points to a Chronicle of Higher Education article about the free-ness of interlibrary loans.

Christopher Harris (Infomancy) started a classification discussion when he asked why folktales and fairy tales are shelved as non-fiction.

After a particularly unpopular change at her library, Rochelle Hartman (Tinfoil + Raccoon) wonders, when should a library try something new if patrons have not expressed a desire for change.

Archivist Jeanne Kramer-Smyth (Spellbound Blog) has some thoughts about how Google’s new log retention policy could affect future historians.

San Jose State’s SLIS Associate Director (slis21) has made the school’s 312pp. re-accreditation self-study available for download

BLOGGING

Rochelle Hartman (Tinfoil + Raccoon) posted links to the “16 much-visited librarian bloggers” featured in the March American Libraries.

LIGHTER SIDE:

Analog tagging.

– Fun with WorldCat and del.icio.us: Lorcan Dempsey links to the list of Top 1000 Works in WorldCat.

CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS

Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (March 8)
– (see also posts at the top of this TWiL).
– many detailed notes from Karen Coyle (Coyle’s InFormation)
– thoughts and report from Andrew K. Pace (Hectic Page) before and after.
Brief Meeting Summary on the LOC website.

Five Weeks to a Social Library (Feb. 12 – March 17)
blogs, course.

Discussion at the Buena Vista Branch of the Burbank Public Library (March 14)
– report from George (It’s all good)

L2 unconference Melbourne (March 2)
unconference blog
– report from Michelle McLean (Connecting Librarian)
– report from Genevieve Tucker (reeling and writhing)

unconference for Western Australian libraryland (date tba)
– planning report from Kathryn Greenhill (Librarians Matter)

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday. [Feeds]