So Talk of the Nation just ran its 21st-century library show and librarians did their thang and talked about how L2, cutting-edge, social-software, networky-touchy-feely we can be… and the page for the show linked to the FRL 21st-century library post! Which I won’t link back here because it’s making me dizzy… fun. Hello, and if […]
For those of you holding your breath about the planned program on Talk of the Nation about 21st century libraries–which did not happen today, as originally scheduled–someone wrote me to say that she had written TOTN and they had advised that “This program has been postponed due to the unavailability of a key guest.” I […]
Talk of the Nation is talking libraries on February 21. So many of us have written and said so much about the 21st century library that it’s hard to be fresh on this topic, so I’ll start with someone else’s view. This weekend, Book TV replayed Andrei Codrescu’s recent keynote address to the American Library […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lorcan Dempsey, at the eponymous Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog, pessimistically but elegantly tackles libraries and the Long Tail, pointing out that libraries exhibit classic–this term shall have to do–Short Tail characteristics, including redundant inventories, cripplingly high transaction costs, and bad resource navigation. That last prim comment is directed both at individual tools, such as online catalogs […]
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 […]
I’ve only skimmed the intro, but I like what I read: “The findings presented in this report do not surprise, they confirm. During the hundreds of Scan discussions and meetings held over the past 24 months, several recurring themes surfaced. ‘Users are not aware of the electronic resources libraries make freely available.’ Our survey findings […]
Tomorrow morning I’m giving a talk about ethics and blogging at Internet Librarian. I didn’t go much farther past the article I wrote last spring for Library Journal, but I do include some (hopefully) amusing examples of ethical breaches, none from within the biblioblogosphere, and only one from LibraryLand. Feel free to judge for yourself. […]