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Monthly Archives: June 2006

Banned Books Week Podcasts

Hey, what could be more fun for Banned Books Week than these PSAs distributed as MP3s? It almost makes up for the conference event planner (more on that later)! Bookmark to:

The Next Catalog: Drivers Wanted

From another list, and from Eric Lease Morgan, someone I greatly respect. Whether you join the list and share in the discussion, or whether you follow the list through its web archives (see below), you are participating. Join in! ———————– A mailing list has been created called NGC4Lib — Next Generation Catalogs for Libraries. See: […]

Californians: Go, Vote yes on 81, Right Now

If you’re like me you woke up this morning and thought, wasn’t I supposed to do something today? Then you remembered: it’s election day, and the primary choice seems to be between the gingham cat and the calico dog, ripping themselves apart on prime-time TV. Forget them. Go to the poll and vote. Vote yes […]

The User Is Not Broken: A meme masquerading as a manifesto

Launched after a discussion with a passionate young librarian who cares. Please challenge, change, add to, subtract from, edit, tussle with, and share these thoughts. —————— All technologies evolve and die. Every technology you learned about in library school will be dead someday. You fear loss of control, but that has already happened. Ride the […]

Leslie Burger Wants YOU!

I’m posting the following letter on request of ALA President-elect Leslie Burger, who wants stories of transformation. Champion that inner change agent and send in that story! (You’ll see this posted several places–feel free to copy and share.) —————–LetterFollows——————– I would like to enlist your help for a very exciting and interactive project that will […]

Take Michael Stephens’ Survey

Come on, I know you want to! If you haven’t taken his latest survey about social software, it’s here. Feel free to link to this (though by now it’s pretty well blogged). Bookmark to: