Free Range Librarian

Update, several hours later: I want to clarify my concerns here. The problem is not that the Copyright Office is saying that its site will only be compatible with IE. The Copyright Office is saying that its site will not be compatible with HTML standards. It is also saying it purchased a production tool [...]

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I keep meaning to write this meticulously thought-out post where I list my top ten BlogHer take-aways. I’m busy, it’s August, the conference now seems six months ago. But I am really, really grateful and proud to have been a BlogHer Scholar, with my attendance underwritten by Six Apart (as I scribbled on my badge). [...]

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I’ve been so busy between the launch of the new MPOW, my own writing, and the sundry demands of summer, that Free Range Librarian has been hard to attend to. But the French have it right: taking a breather in August is a good idea. September will come, and with it the usual efforts. [...]

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Once again attempting to videoblog, if you call “blogging” a post that goes live (fingers crossed) eight days after the event. The first twenty miles are the hardest. This time the video blog (a brief greeting from LITA keynoter danah boyd) is in MP4 format and posted here to FRL, rather than to ourmedia.org. Does [...]

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Lorcan Dempsey responds to Tom Dowling’s critique of Open Worldcat by saying that the Big O will make Open WorldCat OpenURL-compliant “in due course. … The current syntax is simple, human-readable, and human-constructable. We will complement it with OpenURL-based access which will allow additional service possibilities.”
I’m glad Lorcan addressed the question head-on, but I [...]

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Not sure this works, but if it does, the LITA folks can blog it over LITA-way. This is a QT video of danah boyd (SIMS student, LITA keynoter, etc.) taken at the BlogHer Conference last weekend. Excuse the background noise… that’s just happy, empowered women drinking wine and noshing.
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Just so you know, we disabled search yesterday on the new MPOW so we could work on it and get the last features in place. You might be able to do an “or” search (it’s the only search that works), but aside from that, search is currently out of commission on the development site. Consider [...]

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I woke up this morning before it was even really morning yet, feeling the need to read from The Best of Creative Nonfiction. Annie Dillard’s introduction was thick with encouragement, so much so that I printed off an essay I’ve been planning to submit for publication, wrote a cover letter, found stamps for the [...]

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(Sorry, that title came from my military vocabulary…)
I’m excruciatingly tired from two days of database training (complete with obscenely early arisals and late-night email catchup, because the job doesn’t disappear just because I do). Still, I was… excited! thrilled! transfixed! …to read that the Big O had made yet another VCR (very cool refinement) to [...]

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Sorry that the PowerPoint URL was mangled. Here it is again: http://freerangelibrarian.com/presentations/stanford07052.ppt
The owners of the fake Eichler we rent in Palo Alto are making their annual visit tomorrow, so after a day of MySQL training, I dashed home to work with Sandy in mopping and folding and scrubbing. We own a condo in Point Richmond, [...]

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