I used Google Book Search this morning for an essay I’m writing about Palm Springs where I talk briefly about the Salton Sea (Marc Reisner’s smart, humorous description of the origins of this weird body of water is one reason Cadillac Desert is on my Favorite Books list). This brief PowerPoint is a brief walk-through […]
From Language Log comes word (pun intended) of this user-generated supplemental dictionary. I added “biblioblogosphere.” What will you add? Bookmark to:
I remember Roy Tennant talking about this… now it is happening, and I believe the webpage when it says it is “*the* event for technologists building digital libraries and digital information systems, tools, and software.” As Jessamyn notes, code4lib is a sort of a south of the border Access, one of the most bleeding-edge, ultra-hot, […]
Michael reports that Alan says that Leslie Burger has resumed blogging. Yay Leslie! I concur with Michael that her post about talking to strangers on ALA buses is fun and on target (and in its own way tied in with all that Web 2.0 discussion; after all, the human brain is still the best social […]
On Monday, December 5, 7 p.m. ET, Open Source Radio will feature a show about Google Book Search and the Google Library Project. I (wearing my gadfly librarian blogger hat) am a likely (but not slam-dunk) participant on that program. If I speak, it will not be on the legal issues but on the implications […]