Here’s my quick and dirty list of the library blogs I read on a regular basis. I just added Peter Murray’s Disruptive Library Technology Jester, which has to be my all-time favorite blog title, though his tagline is bit odd–Peter’s a librarian, not a library, eh wot? Bookmark to:
Scrawled beneath the boilerplate: “A beautiful manuscript whose discursive ambitiousness isn’t suitable for our editorial needs. Keep up the great work.” Bookmark to:
As reported in Editor and Publisher, a nurse at a VA hospital in New Mexico has been accused of sedition for criticizing the government’s handling of the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina. My goodness, the gummint must be panicked if it needs to start slopping around terms such as sedition–“an insurrection against constituted authority : […]
It’s happened again; the right column on this blog no longer appears in IE, though I see it just fine in FireFox and can see it in the source code. Update: with this post, now it’s back. Wonder what the heck’n is goin’ on? Now, I know that a web page should validate, for a’ […]
Saw Stephen Abrams had linked to a blog that had translated Ranganathan’s laws of library science into Latin. Better yet is the comment with the fake Swedish translation! So here’s my contribution, in the only latin I know: Ooks-bay are for use. Every eader-ray his ook-bay. Every ook-bay his eader-ray. Ave-say the ime-tay of the […]
This is for a very small child and all who gather around her tonight, in presence and in prayer. She is ill with a disease only adults usually get. Parts of her body are failing. Doctors tried to administer medicine, but found another medical problem that meant they had to hold off for now. Tonight […]
I’m not usually a stats monkey–I mean, you either read FRL or you don’t, and I admit to being pulled in many directions that compromise my inner blogger–but I got curious. Usage is up. I don’t know how this compares with other blogs, but up feels better than down. Req’s, Pages Nov-04 51377, 21990 Dec-04 […]
In March 2005, I discussed the Search for the Search My Place Of Work (MPOW) was embarking on. Since then, we went through the CMS upgrade (which was a gruesome experience until I fired the Vendor from Hell, and only slightly better thereafter, Hell being a very deep hole to fall into) and have focused […]
Despite the protracted caterwauling of a self-selected few, American Libraries has stuck to its guns and will continue to run polls in AL Direct–rumor has it with the encouragement of ALA VIPs. I feel the same bubble of glee that welled up in me the first time I heard NBC’s Brian Williams scold the gummint […]
Bowing to pressure from Above, American Libraries will stop running weekly polls in AL Direct, its new newsletter. I’m sure the Authoritarian Librarians’ Guild (which requires a loyalty oath for membership) is shaking its collective booty in a happy dance, but I’m rather disgusted. Needless to say, the polling came under attack on the Council […]