Not a heckuva lot of time to announce this, particularly while hearing about it on a holiday morning… but FYI… Tomorrow (Tuesday, 2/21/06), the NPR show Talk of the Nation will discuss the “Bookless Library.” The blurb states: “Information technology changes as soon we think we understand it. We look at how libraries keep up […]
Free Range Librarian, Simpson Version, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. This almost needs no description, but if you want to make your own, go to The Simpson Maker. Thanks to Jenny Levine for the tip–I’m quickly becoming a Flickr addict! Bookmark to:
Media Manager Add Item Screen, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. I’m really digging Media Manager, a Movable Type plugin that makes it easy to create and manage reviews of items from Amazon from within my blog. I just wish it had Open WorldCat functionality! I’ll review Media Manager more thoroughly sometime soon. Maybe it could be […]
Thanks to Robin and Stu, I’m resuming reviews. I am reading a lot–some of it over and over again–and what the heck, it’s not hard to give a quick review a book I’ve already read three or four times. In the case of Lopate’s collection, it was therapeutic (no index? she continues to mutter…). Plus […]
The Art of the Personal Essay : An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate Phillip Lopate’s Art of the Personal Essay is a lovable pain in the ass. It’s lovable because it’s filled with delightful and surprising choices, such as E.B. White’s “The Ring of Time” and Junichiro Tanizaki’s “In […]
I saw Steve Lawson’s post about following the Computers in Libraries conference through RSS, snagged his OPML file, and a minute later had imported it into Bloglines. Piece o’ cake! Thanks, Steve. If you’re using Bloglines and want to import an OPML file (a list of someone else’s feeds), select Add, then scroll allllllllllll the […]
Plenty of good wrap-up on Code4Lib’s blog. Code4Lib is an innovative conference–lightweight, code-oriented, not bogged down by a cumbersome bureacracy. I hope some of these great ideas turn into reality. I plan to attend next year’s Code4Lib, just as I plan to attend Access next fall. I’m keynoting at Netspeed, so we’ll make it a […]
Treadmill of Craft, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. I visit the Y five days a week, nearly always with a book in tow. The best part of reading on a treadmill is that it’s hands-off–perfect for that first run through a new book or essay. I’m all for marking up books on the second and subsequent […]
Stu asked if I could provide a heads-up on what I’m reading, because we librarians have access to the good books first. It’s a very good question, and once upon a time I had such a feature on FRL; I even displayed books, with a link to Amazon’s entry. I had to kill the review […]
At least for the next couple of weeks, I expanded FRL’s “recent comments” section to list the last 35 (up from 7). If you’re reading FRL through an aggregator, stop on by the actual site and look at the right-hand margin. So I have solved the Case of the Missing Comments (Subtitled, Or, Readers’ Thoughts […]