This Friday I’m giving a talk at the Ontario Library Association Superconference , and months ago, I wrote a wide-open program description. I said I would “describe the outer limits of digital libraries,” share “radical and contrarian views,” and offer “mind-bending predictions.” I really wrote that? And I really said, oh sure, I can prepare [...]
Tags: Digital Divide Issues
(Note: this introduces another weekly feature for FRL: Must-Read Blogs.) Librarylaw.com, by library-law lawyer and consultant Mary Minow, is a no-nonsense (but often lightly humorous) must-read blog about legal issues for librarians, board members, library lovers, and other stakeholders in the library community. Through several posts a week, Mary walks us through the phalanx of [...]
Tags: Intellectual Property · Must-Read Blogs
I’ve noticed that twice as many of you are subscribed to the FRL RSS 1 feed. If your aggregator (blog reading software) supports it, consider switching to FRL’s RSS 2 feed, http://freerangelibrarian.com/index.xml (also listed on the purple navigation bar). You’ll get the full post in most cases, and your aggregator will get updated when people [...]
Tags: Recto and Verso
A response I made on a recent Web4Lib thread about lists versus blogs…
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Web4Lib continues to be an excellent resource for me, but I have found that when I post something here, it stays here, and when I post something to my blog it grows legs and walks into what I call the biblioblogosphere, and then [...]
Tags: Hot Tech
Jenny “Shifted Librarian” Levine and I got a link from Jay Rosen’s Pressthink, as he exhorted newspapers to open their archives.
Jay’s exhilarating clarion call to open newspaper archives won’t get any argument (and could possibly get quite a bit of support) from Libraryland. It just needs development and refinement. He could continue his discussion [...]
Tags: Hot Tech
I had to set aside tinkering with my blog and render unto Caesar for a few hours, but then the whistle blew and I could play some more. (Really! At the end of an LII shift, a whistle blows and we take off our aprons, grab our lunch pails, and march home in two straight [...]
Tags: FRL Spotlight Reviews
If you try to comment on a post and the page looks really, really odd, scroll down. I’m having problems with the display of some pages in Movable Type. I’m uploading this particular post so I can show it to MT support.
I also have problems with the BookQueueToo plugin–I wanted to link to a [...]
Tags: Movable Type
In the great children’s classic “Caddie Woodlawn,” I recall–if I have it right–a painfully funny moment where she stands in front of her class and misquotes an aphorism: “If at first you don’t fricasee, fry, fry a hen.”
I had the same experience Tuesday night, when I took a beloved writing idea I really wanted [...]
Tags: Writing
I lay in bed in the dark this morning, awake far too early, not willing to admit I was not going to get back to sleep, hearing the same sentences tapped out over and over like a military tattoo: How I could write anything so awful, so stupid, so murky? What was I thinking?
Last [...]
Tags: Writing
“Joining the animated fray, the United Church of Christ today (Jan. 24) said that Jesus’ message of extravagant welcome extends to all, including SpongeBob Squarepants - the cartoon character that has come under fire for allegedly holding hands with a starfish.”
See the release at http://www.ucc.org/news/r012405.htm and be sure to browse the picture gallery!
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Tags: This and That