I installed a del.icio.us plugin but haven’t disabled the other thingy that makes del.icio.us posts show up on this site, so for a day or two you may see multiple posts with the same links. It’s August, it’s the weekend…
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My new job is fine… I’ve just been busy at night moving the church website and email from a local, Windows-only ISP (where Sandy couldn’t retrieve her work email anywhere than… work, unless you count Squirrelmail as a serious webmail client, and I don’t) to Dreamhost (for the website) and Fastmail (for the hosted domain [...]
Beyond Google: How do students conduct academic research?
Outstanding article by Dr. Alison Head on how students conduct research.
(tags: research students Google discovery)
Scan This Book! - 8/15/2007 - Library Journal
Interview with Brewster Kahle about the Open Content Alliance.
(tags: OCA Kahle google)
Xerxes : Articles : Improving the SFX menu
Twenty-minute presentation from David Walker.
(tags: SFX metasearch xerxes)
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Limits of self–organization: Peer production and “laws of quality”
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Inside CDL: eXtensible Text Framework (XTF)
(tags: RDF XTF libraries CDL indexing xml)
Standards: choice, reality, and concerns - Tech Tidbits
“For me, the point is that standards work is hampered by our individual, collective and conflicting points of view.”
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The Purpose of Authority Control « Bibliographic Wilderness
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I’ve been up since 4 a.m. — want to be productive? Try menopause! — so I’ll keep this to one heartfelt recommendation: Garrison Keillor’s short essay, “Bridges aren’t supposed to fall down.” (Though if you’re up for a second recommendation — same broad topic, in a way, but much subtler — read “Exit Wounds,” Pankaj [...]
Over at ACRLBlog, Steven Bell fressed that “library resources” got the big ignore on a list of “top 100 e-learning tools.”
My first bit of advice (which I also shared on the blog) is that when we see this happening we should skip the hand-wringing and take action. Why not pull together a dozen librarian e-learning [...]
One nice part about life is how many do-overs you get, on everything from your love life to your hair color. Tomorrow I get my first Tallahassee Do-Over, where I start a new full-time job that sounds like a great match. But like relationships, good jobs don’t happen on their own; they take work, commitment, [...]
(Note: this review is based on an advance reader’s edition provided by the publisher through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. Per the publisher’s request, I do not quote directly from the uncorrected proof.)
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be math geeks. That is at least part of the message from Gifted, an ambitiously-crafted, [...]
Free Range Librarian is taking a short break. I’ll be back in several days. I had thought I’d do one last now-I’m-going-off-the-grid-and-here’s-my-last-gasp post, but then I flew into an office-cleaning frenzy, complete with flying rags and huge bags stuffed with old paper… I’m so enchanted with my efforts; I’m just five bookends away from perfection.
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Fridge door handle broken
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I came home from the 9 a.m. service scheming to whip up a special surprise brunch for Sandy. The surprise was on me when a fridge handle snapped off in my hand. I’ve been much better about getting to aerobics classes at the YMCA… yet I still [...]
