(Note: I did change the title of this piece, from “terrorize” to “get busy,” though in my comments I indicate why I’m not entirely comfortable with that. In truth I had issues with using the word “terrorize.” It bugs me that I did, though.) Don’t quit ALA over Michael Gorman. In fact, if your membership […]
When I was a kid I loved mimicing a 7-Up commercial where a man with a booming voice uttered the tagline, “the Un-cola.” Current Cites is an Un-blog. Every month, Current Cites presents “8-12 annotated citations of current literature”–books, websites, and articles–distributed by email or available on its website. Roy just laughs at me when […]
From a Chronicle of Higher Ed article, One College Librarian Worries About ‘Atomizing’ Books … (the article will soon disappear behind the fee-based veil, though you might be able to dig it up via one of those expensive databases your library licenses): “Wouldn’t it be better for [Google] to work on, quote, cataloging the Web, […]
6-20-05: Yet more updates to my schedule for the upcoming ALA annual conference. (The ALA calendar itself? Pah-tooey! What a useless pile of horse excrement.) Plus this year I am one of several folks honchoing the first LITA blog. I need an RFID chip! Years ago a friend asked if I weren’t worried that by […]
Too busy at work to do anything except say, It’s Valid! It’s Well-Formed! And I Love It! American Libraries now has a feed for its weekly news. Oh joy, oh precedence! You have to click twice from this page to get to AL feed (which reminds me of the punchline to my favorite joke from […]