By way of the Disruptive Library Technology Jester, I found this announcement of a survey of bibliobloggers (which I am using to play with Blockquotes inside Blockquotes, and also because I’m in a rush due to various deadlines):
Meredith Farkas is conducting a survey of those in the library and information science profession who blog:
After two [...]
Tags: Blogging
Dorothea offers her own take on the Ithaka Report, which to borrow her excellent summary, is primarily about “the state of university presses and libraries vis-a-vis scholarly publishing.” Coincidentally, between power outages yesterday I read the Ithaka Report line-by-line and privately offered my own thoughts to several people, as a kind of throat-clearing for some [...]
Tags: Top Tech Trends
Frog Strangler
Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian
About two o’clock today, the house began to twitch… well, not really, but we had a thunderstorm so loud I levitated the first time it cracked the sky. The power went out several times. The cats flattened themselves in the back [...]
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To fulfill a contractual obligation to submit a “small paper” in addition to delivering a plenary session at NASIG’s 2007 conference, from now through August 24 (or earlier, if I feel I’m done — “small paper” is a nice loophole) I will be writing a series of posts based on my presentation, State of Emergency. [...]
Tags: NASIG Paper
Yes, the long national nightmare is over! I have real employment, with great people in a wonderful organization!
As a: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
(It was capitalized in the job announcement, so I assume that’s how it is usually spelled, OH, AND WHY NOT!)
And it is at:
College Center for Library Automation (CCLA)
Which despite not being [...]
Tags: Tallahassee Living · This and That · Uncategorized
Tonight the Tallahassee Writers Association featured a talk about description by Janet Burroway, FSU writing prof and author of the classic textbook, Writing Fiction. I was cranky and had a pounding headache when I arrived, but Burroway engaged so wonderfully with her audience that I forgot all about the challenges of the day as she [...]
Tags: Uncategorized · Writing
Do you stagger out of meetings moaning how you hate, hate, hate meetings? Do you yearn for anything — earthquake, hurricane, building collapse — to get out of the meeting you’re in? Do meetings have to be so awful?
The bad meetings always stand out in my memory, but actually, I’ve attended many good meetings, as [...]
Tags: Business 2.0
The if:book folks have released CommentPress, a fascinating WordPress theme that allows paragraph-by-paragraph commentary. CommentPress has great potential… at some point I suggested it could be used for public discussion of license agreements, such as those from Google Book Project.
I was privileged to test CommentPress before release — you can visit my test site here [...]
Tags: Blogging · Hot Tech · Writing
Caution to FRL readers: this gets a little geeky. If your eyes glaze over after the second sentence, just skip it.
A year ago in Techsource I wrote a series about the problems with OPACs, and in the course of it wrote about relevance ranking. I said, quite accurately, that TF/IDF was a technology used [...]
Tags: Next Gen Catalog
Yes, it’s another opportunity to weigh in on interesting issues *and* get you or your organization mentioned in an online journal read by IT managers in and out of LibraryLand!
For an upcoming article, I’m writing about best practices for managing/supervising virtual employees or contractors (sometimes known as satellite workers). Before you say “but we don’t [...]
Tags: Writing