Free Range Librarian

I’ve been blogging every month at ALA Techsource for two years, and have decided it’s time to move on. Here’s my last post.
It was a good run and I look forward to seeing where it goes (just as I was pleased to see Joe Janes step in as the Internet Librarian, a column I started [...]

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dweinberger posts this today: “stopped by a fruit-sniffing beagle at US customs Confiscated my apple, a well-known gateway fruit.”
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I baked it just for you. As the title suggests (”Wikipedia’s Awkward Adolescence”), I tried to hit the middle ground; like Google and the Big O, Wikipedia isn’t going away any time soon, so I’d rather be constructive than dismissive, especially for a tool I use every day.
Wikipedia is a hugely fascinating culture; to my [...]

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Here’s my favorite del.icio.us link for September 27th:

Harrison library charges fine for late mom’s overdue book - “He seemed to have ice in his veins, and he had the demeanor of a robot.” That was the library clerk who refused to waive a 50-cent fine for a woman who died.
if:book: the googlization of everything: a [...]

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Here’s my favorite del.icio.us link for September 27th:

Harrison library charges fine for late mom’s overdue book - “He seemed to have ice in his veins, and he had the demeanor of a robot.” That was the library clerk who refused to waive a 50-cent fine for a woman who died.
if:book: the googlization of everything: a [...]

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So Wyoming rolls out this ad campaign for libraries with the silhouette of a naked woman on a mudflap and once again I’m in a mild (very mild, custard-sans-even-vanilla) conundrum.
I can be a Totally Cool post-feminist sex-positive librarian who gets the sheer irony of the juxtaposition of traditionally sexist images with the concept of libraries [...]

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Here’s my favorite del.icio.us link for September 21st:

From The Magazine : Radar Online : Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which Google is evil - “Google controls your e-mail, your videos, your calendar, your searches — What if it controlled your life?” A great cautionary tale by Cory Doctorow.

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… FSU’s associate general counsel D. Michael Cramer asked that the student union’s policy be more in line with the university’s, which does not include sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and socio-economic status.
My bottom line is I don’t write about my former jobs unless I have positive things to say, but given the FSU-centricity [...]

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Here’s my favorite del.icio.us link for September 19th:

The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2007 | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - “This 2007 ECAR research study is a longitudinal extension of the 2004, 2005, and 2006 ECAR studies of students and information technology.” On his blog, Disruptive Technology Library Jester, Peter Murray had noted the [...]

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[updated] I woke up early Saturday morning, the last day of a galvanizing good conference on the future of library catalogs (Carl Grant and Michael Norman were especially good; no, they were amazing, and Kate Sheehan of Librarything for Libraries was fabu), and tore my presentation to shreds.
My talk the previous day had been all [...]

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