Free Range Librarian

I attended the ARL usability Webcast held October 28. Well done! Thanks to Infopeople for negotiating a low-cost price for Californians.
The webcast was conducted with a surprisingly light touch, including a few well-chosen cartoons, examples grounded in everyday librarianship (such as library doors with handles that lead users astray), and quotes such as “Know [...]

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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.10.html
I really love Current Cites, freely available by e-mail and the Web. It’s scholarly, it’s funny and interesting, and it points me to resources that haven’t popped up on my radar scope.
It needs an RSS feed, and I just wrote to tell them that.
At any rate, in the latest issue, we learn that the [...]

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ISI repeatedly sent me review copies of EndNote when I wrote for American Libraries, but I only looked at this research and citation product once or twice back then. Now I find myself juggling hundreds of citations for my writing, so I downloaded the demo for version 8 from their site. I had some trepidation, [...]

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This is for a classmate, Lori, who has written about her hatred of Smooth Jazz. Lori, get in and drive!

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Today and tomorrow I’m wearing my hat as LITA Divisional Councilor for the American Library Association at the fall divisional and executive board meetings of ALA. I am having a great time at this meeting, learning a lot, absorbing, sharing, seeing quite a few old friends, meeting new people. (It doesn’t hurt that the meeting [...]

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Intriguing: a tool that assigns LCSH automatically. Catalogablog notes, “The software costs 60k, only those with deep pockets need check this one out.” Er–priced a cataloger lately? Wonder how well it works? Stay tuned. I continue to be impressed by many of the automated indexing tools, which I see as helper tools with the potential [...]

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(Originally posted to Web4Lib in slightly different form)
With all the biblioblogbuzz about OpenWorldCat, folks on Web4Lib brought up RLG’s RedLightGreen. So I walked it around the block once or twice.
I was impressed with the theory behind RedLightGreen, and with many of the features. I really liked the related subjects, ability to scope within a [...]

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I’m posting this, but I do have to point out that the form is a PDF that isn’t type-in fill-out. Hey, anyone out there with a typewriter? No? Me either. So get out your quill and your inkpot, hitch up your bustle, and nominate someone kewl. LJ is implicitly looking for younger folks on [...]

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By day, I am deep into ontological dances, planning the new MPOW. By night, I write, attend classes about writing, read, and think about writing. For school, I’m getting ready to write a meditation for next week, start on a workshop piece due in three weeks, and plow through a pile of readings. For work, [...]

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By Ed Summers: Follett by day, consultant at night; has published an article in Ariadne. (Yes, at MPOW we are talking about OAI. I am not a coder, but I do understand how OAI works, at least from a workpersonlike point of view.)
1. Brief overview of OAI-PMH
Well, actually he has launched into a discussion of [...]

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