This Week in LibraryBlogLand (October 16, 2006)

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending October 15, 2006

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More reaction to last week’s Lawrence (Kans.) anti-library opinion piece.

Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It) continues her series, A day in the life of a systems librarian: desktop support.

Chad Boeninger (Library Voice) writes about sharing tutorial source files.

Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector) really really doesn’t like library standards and OpenURL.

Ivan Chew (Rambling Librarian) revisit the question, “To give the fish, or to teach people how to fish? Steve Lawson (See Also) thinks about how and how much to help students with their research papers. More from Iris Jastram (Pegasus Librarian). Rory Litwin (Library Juice) offers the real reason students like Google better than our databases: readability.

Second Life Library: Grand Opening.

Amanda Etches-Johnson (blogwithoutalibrary.net) posted a list of Library 2.0 examples.

Should you find yourself having to publish an article in an Elsevier journal, first read Dorothea Salo’s (Caveat Lector) advice about copyright.

CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS

Perceptions of Users – MLC Annual Meeting 2006:
The Library Rebooted.

New Collaborative Relationships: The Role of Academic Libraries in the Digital Data Universe (September 26-27):
Science Library Pad.

iPRES 2006 (October 8-10):
Digitization 101More.

ASIDIC Fall Meeting (September 10-12):
SearchEngineWatchMore. Commentary from John Dupuis (Confessions of a Science Librarian).

NEASIST (October 3):
LACUNY Blog.

5th World with Jim Brazell:
Infomancy. – More.

NELINET IT Conference 2005 (October 13):
Library Voice.

Internet Librarian (October 23-25):
Information Today.

Access 2006 (October 11-14):
Quædam cuiusdam.
Science Library Pad.
One Big Library.

Florida Library Association Annual Conference 2006 (April 18-21)
CFLC Currents.

Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (October 12):
Twilight Librarian.

EDUCAUSE 2006 (October 9-12):
McMaster University Library.

Web 2.0 and Library 2.0: competing in a Google World (Stephen Abrams talk):
Connecting Librarian.
librariesinteract.info

VRA Great Lakes Chapter Fall Meeting 2006:
Brave New World.

i-Conference 2006 (October 15-17)
Filipino LibrarianMore.

LITA Forum (October 26-29) is looking for bloggers.

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending October 15, 2006

……….

More reaction to last week’s Lawrence (Kans.) anti-library opinion piece.

Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It) continues her series, A day in the life of a systems librarian: desktop support.

Chad Boeninger (Library Voice) writes about sharing tutorial source files.

Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector) really really doesn’t like library standards and OpenURL.

Ivan Chew (Rambling Librarian) revisit the question, “To give the fish, or to teach people how to fish? Steve Lawson (See Also) thinks about how and how much to help students with their research papers. More from Iris Jastram (Pegasus Librarian). Rory Litwin (Library Juice) offers the real reason students like Google better than our databases: readability.

Second Life Library: Grand Opening.

Amanda Etches-Johnson (blogwithoutalibrary.net) posted a list of Library 2.0 examples.

Should you find yourself having to publish an article in an Elsevier journal, first read Dorothea Salo’s (Caveat Lector) advice about copyright.

CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS

Perceptions of Users – MLC Annual Meeting 2006:
The Library Rebooted.

New Collaborative Relationships: The Role of Academic Libraries in the Digital Data Universe (September 26-27):
Science Library Pad.

iPRES 2006 (October 8-10):
Digitization 101More.

ASIDIC Fall Meeting (September 10-12):
SearchEngineWatchMore. Commentary from John Dupuis (Confessions of a Science Librarian).

NEASIST (October 3):
LACUNY Blog.

5th World with Jim Brazell:
Infomancy. – More.

NELINET IT Conference 2005 (October 13):
Library Voice.

Internet Librarian (October 23-25):
Information Today.

Access 2006 (October 11-14):
Quædam cuiusdam.
Science Library Pad.
One Big Library.

Florida Library Association Annual Conference 2006 (April 18-21)
CFLC Currents.

Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (October 12):
Twilight Librarian.

EDUCAUSE 2006 (October 9-12):
McMaster University Library.

Web 2.0 and Library 2.0: competing in a Google World (Stephen Abrams talk):
Connecting Librarian.
librariesinteract.info

VRA Great Lakes Chapter Fall Meeting 2006:
Brave New World.

i-Conference 2006 (October 15-17)
Filipino LibrarianMore.

LITA Forum (October 26-29) is looking for bloggers.

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