Free Range Librarian

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I’m on an ALA LITA Committee that is trying to design better technology conferences. We want to know what you liked, did not like, or would like to see at a technology conference in the future.
If you have ever attended a technology preconference, session, conference, or you simply [...]

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Quite often, I really love librarians, and this is one of those times. The Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Library has ported the intriguing Ithaka Report into CommentPress to make it easier to engage with the text.
In the words of the authors, “this paper argues that a renewed commitment to publishing in [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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My latest article for IT Manager’s Journal, Vendor Confidential: How to Sell to the IT Crowd, went live this afternoon. I turned it in this morning… I love online publications. Love my editor, as well.
Meanwhile, I try very hard to keep this blog work-safe, but with the news that the uber-pious Rep. Allen had been [...]

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After I received an interesting email response yesterday for an article I’m writing about LOCKSS, I realized I needed to clarify that the Youtube Video I made for the BIGWIG Showcase emphasizes special-case uses of LOCKSS.
LOCKSS is primarily used as a long-term insurance plan for e-journals, and it’s particularly powerful this way because it tips [...]

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I’m pasting in Karen Coombs’ announcement of a Social Software Showcase at ALA Annual (already linked here and there on the Web), which is the epitome of all that is epitomizable, and in which (as I have not yet resolved that unable-to-be-in-two-places-at-once issue) I will participate in via a YouTube video which I have yet [...]

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By popular demand (um… all two of you), here’s the talk I gave at NASIG 2007, uploaded to slideshare.net so I could, you know, easily share it! Bon appetit.

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 6:00 p.m. GMT:
Interview with David Weinberger, Author of Everything is Miscellaneous
(I cribbed this copy from another blog and then had to laugh, since it refers to me in the third person:)
David Weinberger will be discussing [...]

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Note: thanks to a worried comment from an FRL reader, I discovered several hundred FRL readers had been marooned when I migrated to WordPress a couple of weeks ago. I pointed the feed in question to the new Wordpress rss2 feed. Tell me if you aren’t reading this
I felt completely back in the [...]

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