This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 21, 2007
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(Sorry if some of this is old news. I didn’t read library blogs while I was otherwise occupied, so everything I’m seeing in blogs this week is new to me.)
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While preparing a speech on social media, Shel Israel (Global Neighbourhoods) asked, What should I tell the librarians? Many answers in the comments. Another comment from BrandToBeDetermined.
Christine Schwartz (Cataloging Futures) points to an article by Alan Danskin about perceived threats to the future of cataloguing. Comments from Karen Coyle (Coyle’s InFormation). Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) has a few comments about cataloguing for the users.
Mary Carmen Chimato (Circ and Serve) wrote a couple of posts about A Day in the Life of an access services librarian.
Cynthia Taylor (Nebraska Library Commission Blog) points to the Library Career Resource Center.
Agnese Caruso (Slaw) reports on a NE2007 session that listed ways to communicate the value of special librarians to management (via)
New York Times: several research libraries say no to Google/Microsoft and yes to the Open Content Alliance for their book scanning projects.
SUBJECT GUIDES
Adrienne Furness (Homeschooling and Libraries) has posted the contents of her library’s subject kits for homeschoolers.
From iLibrarian, a librarian’s guide to creating 2.0 subject guides.
INTERVIEWS
Michael Stephens points to an interview with John Blyberg
Eight librarians were interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education about the future of the library profession. via librarian.net, here’s a temporary free link to the article. For the complete interviews: the questions are here; the answers are in the podcasts: Joe Sanchez; Susan Gibbons; Nick Baker; Casey Bisson; Jessamyn West; Sarah Kostelecky; Char Booth; Brian Mathews.
BLOGGING
Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has posted the results of her 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere.
Walt Crawford (Walt at Random) has been thinking about blogging. Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has been thinking about anonymous blogging.
LIBRARY HUMOR
Stephen Abram (Stephen’s Lighthouse) lists three library comic strips (plus another two).
ODDS AND ENDS
Probably the prettiest library t-shirt: Online Medieval & Classical Library.
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 21, 2007
……….
(Sorry if some of this is old news. I didn’t read library blogs while I was otherwise occupied, so everything I’m seeing in blogs this week is new to me.)
……….
While preparing a speech on social media, Shel Israel (Global Neighbourhoods) asked, What should I tell the librarians? Many answers in the comments. Another comment from BrandToBeDetermined.
Christine Schwartz (Cataloging Futures) points to an article by Alan Danskin about perceived threats to the future of cataloguing. Comments from Karen Coyle (Coyle’s InFormation). Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) has a few comments about cataloguing for the users.
Mary Carmen Chimato (Circ and Serve) wrote a couple of posts about A Day in the Life of an access services librarian.
Cynthia Taylor (Nebraska Library Commission Blog) points to the Library Career Resource Center.
Agnese Caruso (Slaw) reports on a NE2007 session that listed ways to communicate the value of special librarians to management (via)
New York Times: several research libraries say no to Google/Microsoft and yes to the Open Content Alliance for their book scanning projects.
SUBJECT GUIDES
Adrienne Furness (Homeschooling and Libraries) has posted the contents of her library’s subject kits for homeschoolers.
From iLibrarian, a librarian’s guide to creating 2.0 subject guides.
INTERVIEWS
Michael Stephens points to an interview with John Blyberg
Eight librarians were interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education about the future of the library profession. via librarian.net, here’s a temporary free link to the article. For the complete interviews: the questions are here; the answers are in the podcasts: Joe Sanchez; Susan Gibbons; Nick Baker; Casey Bisson; Jessamyn West; Sarah Kostelecky; Char Booth; Brian Mathews.
BLOGGING
Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has posted the results of her 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere.
Walt Crawford (Walt at Random) has been thinking about blogging. Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has been thinking about anonymous blogging.
LIBRARY HUMOR
Stephen Abram (Stephen’s Lighthouse) lists three library comic strips (plus another two).
ODDS AND ENDS
Probably the prettiest library t-shirt: Online Medieval & Classical Library.
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on LISNews every Monday. [Feeds]
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