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Free Range Librarian comprises the public, oft-daily mumblings and grumblings of one K.G. Schneider, a writer and librarian who has published over 100 articles and 2 books, primarily about Internet technologies for [...]
For some time I had wondered why I hadn’t seen recent issues of “Less Access to Less Information by and about the U.S. Government,” which ALA began publishing in 1981. I found out today that it ceased publication in 1998, when its author Anne Heanue, retired from the ALA Washington Office. Fellow ALA [...]
http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/05/2032241
LISNews is only 160 entries away from reaching the 10,000-entry mark. To celebrate, they are requesting images or photos (why not ASCII art, folks?) that pay homage to “10,000.” “Get out [your] digital cameras, crayons, colored pencils, Photoshop or MS Paint and send us something that shows us how happy you are that [...]
As a Councilor, I have an obligation to be up front about my own position on the issue I’m about to discuss. In a nutshell, this stinks.
The ALA Council list has had a flurry of posting activity related to the question of internal candidate endorsements, starting with a resolution posted by a current [...]
… I wish. Liz Lawley commented at Internet Librarian that wireless access for attendees is now matter of course for most of the conferences she attends (as a professor at RIT who has “crossed over” from librarianship). Not so for ALA. We don’t request it as a conference service, we don’t push [...]
Found this well-tempered blog on RSS in government through a mention on the Shifted Librarian:
http://www.rssgov.com/
One of the managing editors is Ray Matthews, an RSS disciple based in the Utah state government. Ray has done a lot to champion RSS, and his “workshop,” though primarily geared toward the implementor (versus the end-user), is terrific.
Bookmark [...]
Jessamyn West lists a number of good Web resources on librarian.net.
AIDS inspired one of my first real-time, patron-in-front-of-the-desk Internet searches for reference, in 1993, when I worked at the science/business/government desk at Newark (NJ) Public Library. A man walked up to the desk and announced, “I’ve been diagnosed with AIDS.” I walked to [...]
