I could not figure out what the dilly-o was in San Francisco as I drove in 90 minutes late for Michael Porter’s Keep Up! presentation, even though I grew up in this city and have been watching the news pretty carefully. Another student turned to me and said, “Hello, it’s April 18!”
Some people celebrate Christmas, some Ramadan, but everyone in SF celebrates The Big One. Meanwhile, I captured a slew of pictures of old fire engines and women in sparkly clothing, though the men in kilts scooted away before I could point my Kodak their way.
Michael is such a superb presenter that I’ll just lean back and watch (even though he’s wearing a suit, no kilt). Long Tail… a great explanation. Good handouts, nice glossary… and finally someone explained NCIP so I got it! (One student’s assessment: “It’s what Z39.50 was supposed to do.” Wise gal.)
More stream of consciousness:
Streaming media: content, consumption and competition.
Netflix going into books this year… eep
Sony PSP: I’m starting to see that having a child is a big asset for staying current. My cats don’t beg for gaming accessories and we don’t travel with them so we don’t need to worry about ensuring they have movies for a six-hour flight…
FOLED: ooooooooooooh. Me want!
Laser-projected keyboard… something I’ve heard of, nice to see on the big screen and meditate over.
Googlezon video… I had never seen this. Among other things, it’s an interesting history of technology through 2004.
Myspace, or maybe it’s Facebook–I’ve never seen either–and there’s a library in there! Wow. Fun.
Lunch. Sunshine.
Webjunction.
Flickr, woo hoo! Michael already had uploaded a picture of the class to Flickr. All this news about libraries and Flickr… stuff I didn’t know. ( I told Sandy yesterday how she could set up a Flickr group for her next church and she loved that idea.)
Mashups of libraries
Library blogs–hey, he showed Techsource!!! No one in the class knew it (saaaaaaad) but it was nice to hear it’s read.
“The emerging world of feed ubiquity”—ooh big juicy topic!
Interesting comments–that people like My Yahoo over Bloglines–say it’s easier and that they have trouble getting Bloglines to work. Fascinating! I’m about to modify our tutorial for MPOW to add links to other aggregators… timely.
Aggregators can do much more than blogs… package tracking… Flickr… Netflix… etc.
Much enthusiasm for library blogging topics!
Talk about virtual reference…
Ok, this is true: I just saw de.licio.us for the first time! And created a login. I love training… it’s like special permission to explore things I keep Meaning to Get Around 2. Hmmmm…de.licio.us seems rather browser-dependent…
Set up an account for youtube, too! Can’t wait to upload one of the short films from this weekend.
RFID… small discussion…
4 p.m.! Day went fast. Thanks, Libraryman!
Posted on this day, other years:
- Sophie Gets a Blog - 2007
- A podcast for all you biblio-information-fanatics - 2007
- Vote for the Tom Delay Billboard! - 2005
- Survey Launch--Please Participate - 2005
- Mary, Mary, Delightfully Contrary - 2005
NCIP is not “what Z39.50 was supposed to be”, since it doesn’t do any searching. But it does, in theory, support ILL and self-service checkin and checkout. And it’s f’ing HUGE… clearly designed by people that think that DSL is a slow network connection.
I think we all saw Z39.50 as a tool that would help connect disparate library catalogs. That we saw that in terms of *search* and not *function* is interesting.
Is there an example of NCIP out there we could play with? If it’s that huge, how will it scale to a networked ILS as I imagine WorldCat wants to be?
Never seen MySpace?! Never seen del.icio.us?! Welcome to 2005, Karen! 😉
Not sure what you mean about del.icio.us being browser dependent (though I suppose if it is dependent on Firefox, I wouldn’t notice since I so seldom use anything else). Honestly, I don’t know what I’d do without del.icio.us (maybe read a book. Or sleep.).
When I signed up with del.icio.us it asked me what browser I was using and that was required before “Step 2.” I’ve subsequently received email to “finish setting up” my account. I don’t mind doing this, I was just surprised. The phrase I was probably looking for was “client dependent.”
Oh, I see. When you said it was “browser dependent,” I thought you meant that it would only work in certain browsers. You are right that using it effectively is dependent on being able to make a small customization to your browser. It asks you what browser you are using so you can install the appropriate bookmarking tools (a bookmarklet for Explorer, a extension for Firefox, etc.).
It is possible to bookmark items in your del.icio.us account without customizing your browser (so if you are at a public computer somewhere, you can log in to your del.icio.us account, click the “post” link, and copy and paste the URL), but it is cumbersome. Much better to install the buttons on the browsers you regularly use.
SRU/SRW is what Z39.50 was supposed to be, or at least has become.
David, I’ll buy that, particularly from thou, oh Catalogablog (and incidentally, SRU for MPOW has come up for quite a bit of discussion). What I like about this back-and-forth is the general agreement–even among librarians who might not consider themselves tech-savvy, which is how I would typify my peer group yesterday–that Z39.50 is so mid-1990s quaint. Gee, remember MonicaGate?
Yeah! Thanks so much for posting your observations from class, Karen. I appreciate you kind words and also the fact that you pointed out what had higher value for you as an observer. It’s good feedback and will help me evolve future iterations of the class.
As far as NCIP goes, I would refer folks to OCLC resources for the official word (*part* of that word is here: http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/getting_started/ncipweb/default.htm) I sure don’t claim to be a deep expert on the subject, that’s for sure. Also worth noting is that our discussion of NCIP was couched in a very unique and specific part of class that to my understanding is not “typical” for an NCIP discussion (how cryptic is that?). I’d love to talk more with some Z39.50 and NCIP experts though so I can learn more (and talk about what we were discussing in class when NCIP came up if you like).
As far as del.icio.us or MySpace being new to you goes, that is still true for most library professionals so you are in good company. You mentioning publicly that it was new to you would likely serve to encourage other folks who might have felt intimidated or “too behind to bother trying to catch up” with these tools. Also, as I mentioned in class, I had to poke around del.icio.us three seperate times before I “got it” (yeah, I’m thick sometimes, so what!:). And finally, there are volumes of things you know very, very well that I am sure I have never even heard of. In fact, next time, you get to teach me, k’? 😉
Oh yeah, NCIP was like a flash across the screen. It just intrigued me that someone in the class made an analogy to Z39.50!