From ALA PIO: —————————– TNT will premiere its original movie “The Librarian” Sunday, December 5, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) http://www.tnt.tv/Title/Display/0,5918,543783,00.html. The American Library Association (ALA) Public Information Office would love to hear from librarians and library workers who are able to catch the movie on cable and willing to take a few moments to respond […]
I tell you, it’s been quite a week. I haven’t felt so much in the presence of major change since the day back in 1993, was it, that I installed Mosaic and got Trumpet Winsock working, and for the first time saw NASA images on my computer. First last Friday I was FRBR-ized, then Yahoo […]
Overall, not so good, but a couple of wins. We need to do some electoral analysis to see what contributed to the failures. “The voters of the Yosemite Community College District approved Measure E, so Modesto Junior College will be getting a much-needed new library as part of $326,000,000 in renovation and building projects at […]
I’m posting this, but I do have to point out that the form is a PDF that isn’t type-in fill-out. Hey, anyone out there with a typewriter? No? Me either. So get out your quill and your inkpot, hitch up your bustle, and nominate someone kewl. LJ is implicitly looking for younger folks on the […]
I just installed MT 3.1 Quickpost on my laptop’s browser (well, one of the browsers). I used it to start this post. Nice feature, I guess. Anyway, I’m in St. Louis, enjoying Multnomah’s presentation on CMS’s–lots of good questions and ideas. Mostly I’m get a comfy “hey, we did that right” feeling about where we’re […]
Today on It’s All Good, Alice posted a thread talking about the need to continue many non-digital services, commenting about library staff, “I had lost sight of the fact that we need all kinds of people in our libraries.” Many of us are already “all kinds of people.” I have many modes when I am […]
I had promised a response to the Maxwell thread about VR on DIG-REF; this post, a response to two exchanges on Web4Lib, will have to do. — Karen ——————– > Bernie salvoed: > > So…there are millions of potential users familiar with the basic > > technology (using the Web/Internet, e-mail and chat), and 80% […]
We moved from Richmond to Palo Alto last week. I wanted to comment about Anne Lipow’s death, but was often offline. I posted only the briefest of comments on the blog entry set up by Infopeople. I did not have enough time or mental wherewithal to prepare my thoughts very carefully, and I did not […]
Michael Stephens said he wanted to see blogs on ALA’s site. On Jessamyn’s blog, she responds that ALA still needs to fix its search engine and content management system. They’re both right: ALA needs to move forward, and it needs to fix what ain’t working. If I bundled the comments together, I’d say that ALA […]
By his own account, a human being with a wi-fi-enabled laptop was vigorously dissuaded by a police officer from using an open access point offered by a public library. See: http://akma.disseminary.org/archives/001521.html and http://akma.disseminary.org/archives/001521.html The blogger seems willing to let this slide, and that’s this person’s choice. Still, I’d like to hear the rest of this […]