I just spent four hours keying misspelled terms into a search engine we’re evaluating to see how well it does. I may be rooned for lyfe. (Note: because vendors may be reading my blog, I’m not using any of the terms used in our evaluation.)
I really shouldn’t be keyboarding during my lunch break–it would be [...]
The Library of Congress recently announced “that it will cease to provide controlled series access in the bibliographic records that its catalogers produce.” This has created quite a tizzy in some circles, with most of the tizzying on the order of:
* But series work is important!
* LC is supposed to provide it for us!
* LC [...]
People are leaving their farewells for John Iliff at his memorial page. I posted something there, and another message at PUBLIB–where the body of the email announcing his death was “scrubbed” from the server, to my great irritation; I can imagine John rolling his eyes over that–and this post is somewhere between a prayer and [...]
The problem with Michael Gorman “leading” on the issue of library education–however important that topic is to our profession–is that you have to gnaw off a leg to follow him. Witness his column in the May issue of American Libraries:
“If you believe, as I do, that there is a crisis in library education that [...]
I gave myself a few days on this issue to let the flavors mellow. It’s Saturday morning, it’s been a good week at My Place Of Work, it’s been a good if challenging personal week (Lil’ Brown-nose co-presented on research methods to her MFA lit class, and they loved it) and I’m ready to tackle [...]
LJ has a feed called Breaking News I just subscribed to for their, um, breaking news. I wish they called it LJ Breaking News or Library Journal Breaking News or even Breaking News What Comes From That Which Is Not American Libraries, because Breaking News is just a twee generic. Even CNN isn’t quite that [...]
I know that what you’re really thinking today is “When RLG merges with OCLC, will they become OCLCRG” (with the spare “library” dropped)? AWK-el-kerg–there’s a suitable acronym for Them What Intends To Rule All Things Biblish.
However, while you’re rearranging that acronym in your head, give yourself time to ponder the Sloppy Seconds With Opal [...]
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Here it is: the last reading assignment. I read it over Christmas, then re-read it a month ago, and again last week. It is a true account of grief, as a friend commented last week, one that refuses to place mourning along a pat chronology but shows Didion moving [...]
Pals in the sun
Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.
This is how I feel these days–it’s slightly illusory, since I have to finish my major project (and I have a revision of a revision to turn in next week, as well). Has it been almost two years since [...]
From ALA HQ: Roy elected–dues increase passes–turnout excellent–bylaws change passes–all good news. William Crowe ran an honorable campaign and is a good guy, but Roy will make a terrific ALA president. Too busy to do more than paste and run! — kgs
———–from ALA Council list—————–
Following are the results of the 2006 ALA Bylaws Amendment [...]
