Free Range Librarian

(Note: this is the text version of the same discussion in last week’s podcast.)
Drivers wanted!
Two weeks ago, at the Ontario Library Association conference, over glasses of the local brew, Jennie “Shifted Librarian” Levine told me in no uncertain terms that girlfriend needs a logo on Free Range Librarian. Well, yes, I said, but [...]

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Have they no shame? AT&T is using ads on their own calling cards to lobby against the E-rate in an oily attempt to weasel out of $160 million they owe the public. The ads must be listened to before the hapless dialer can continue placing a call. AT&T’s calling-card advert–described off-line as a lengthy “diatribe,” [...]

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I’m pleased to say Free Range Librarian is now worthy of PR enquiries. In my capacity on this blog as Queen Of All She Surveys, I’ve been asked to announce an upcoming conference, Internet Librarian International, which is “a unique conference for information professionals who want to update their skills and learn about new strategies, [...]

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In the last decade, I have given dozens of presentations on topics ranging from intellectual freedom to technology trends. Due to my school schedule through summer 2006, my dog-n-pony shows not related to my day job at My Place of Work are limited to a few favorite stops, but if after that caveat you’d like [...]

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The topics for this week’s FRL podcast are a review of a USAToday article about podcasting, and a plea to Pimp My Blog. Text entries to FRL will follow in a day or two.
As the hymn goes, I woke up this morning with my mind on podcasting (when I should have been giving a [...]

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http://www.cadence90.com/wp/index.php?p=3548
A delightful, clear, device-neutral tutorial about podcasting by Lisa “Learning the Lessons of Nixon” Williams, found by way of Dan Gillmor.
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First, Jenny.
Cites & Insights is an interesting newsletter, but I confess that with my heavy non-work reading schedule I don’t always make personal time to print and read a 20-plus-page PDF that is essentially one guy’s take on the library world–sometimes fun, but the print format competes with my limited personal reading and my [...]

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Michael “Tame the Web” Stephens and Joe Sipocz are the dudes whose high-quality blogging earned their institution Library of the Month on (RSS-impoverished) Webjunction; see:
http://webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=548
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Everything new is old again, or at least that’s the premise of David “JOHO the Blog” Weinberger’s “Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web,” a collection of eight essays by David Weinberger, philosopher, software developer, and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto. If you missed this book in early 2002, pick it up [...]

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(Link to Friday’s Presentation, Old Wine in New Bottles)
Friday and Saturday I presented at the Ontario Library Association “Superconference.” What a fabulous experience! Friday was one of my all-over-the-map talks about Librarians’ Index, audio ebooks, podcasting, the roles of librarians in society, and just about anything else I could shovel into an hour-long talk. The [...]

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