Geepers, with all these toolbars thrown our way, we barely have desktop space for our browsers any more! But I had to give a go at the latest meme, the Yahoo-OCLC toolbar that “provides one-click access to Open WorldCat as well as Yahoo! Search’s Web search engine.” Using my zip code (94306), I used Yahooclc, [...]
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I sit here in my corporate bathrobe catching up after the great California Library Association conference in San Jose last week. Nice location, great tech support, super high attendance, good food… hey, Toto, I know we’re not in Ontario any more (site of last year’s conference, and a dump that was). Kudos to everyone involved [...]
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Went to a CLA preconference today on FRBR, and drank the KoolAid! I so get it. From the cataloger’s point of view, it is nice and tidy. From the public service point of view, FRBR (or things FRBRish, such as RedLightGreen) is absolutely the best thing to happen to the library catalog since the invention [...]
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I had a review copy of Tara Calishain’s “Web Search Garage,” but it vanished in a September household move. And sad I was until her book resurfaced, because I know when Tara’s name is on a book that I’m going to like it, and it is all that and then some: fun to read; full [...]
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I’m still not naming it, but if you look close you’ll see what it is.
I began sweating this Monday, even though Janway PROMISED our SWAG for our booth at the annual state library conference would arrive this week. Popped out to mail some work things today, came back five minutes later to find two [...]
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I can’t believe I just wasted time doing this on a busy week before the state conference, but I generated my blogger code:
B5 d+ t+ k+ s u– f i+ o+ x- e l c
Oh, and here’s the decoder (thanks to Eclectic for pointing out this omission). And here’s this blurb from the decoder:
My [...]
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Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox for November 8 argues that usability factors–particularly how the two candidates used newsletters–helped elect Bush: “In summary, Kerry used his newsletter to collect money. Bush used his to increase voter turnout, and he won because he was better at turning out his base. Understanding the strength of email newsletters thus directly contributed [...]
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Great article in the New York Times, about Claudia Marquez Linares, an independent journalist in Cuba whose husband was one of the dissidents jailed in the spring 2003 crackdown.
I know in Libraryland we care so very, very much about censorship and intellectual freedom. I’m intrigued by Umansky’s reference to “De Cuba,” which Umansky calls [...]
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http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2004/11/weve_gone_map_c.html
I try not to cross-blog too much, but this collection of electoral maps is delightful. I particularly enjoyed the link to how the youth voted, and the reminder that the last time youth turned out in such high numbers, the president who won had to resign two years later. Let the healing begin, bwah hah [...]
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http://shirky.com/writings/group_user.html
“The assumption that the computer is a box, used by an individual in isolation, is so pervasive that it is adhered to even when it leads to investment of programmer time in improving every aspect of mailing lists except the interaction that makes them worthwhile in the first place.”
As a long-time list co-moderator (for PUBLIB, [...]
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