Yesterday, Christine Lind Hage sent the following message to Council list, asking for short-notice donations to help ALA meet a challenge grant for the Cultural Communities Fund (CCF), which “will support local libraries across the country in establishing community and cultural programs.” As a librarian who believes that programming is one of the skills that […]
http://www.wingedpig.com/archives/000169.html I sometimes think my management motto could be, “The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” So I was very struck by Mark Fletcher’s observations about how his role in his company is evolving from entrepreneur to leader-manager. I was hired for that kind of transition at MPOW. A […]
http://www.librarycopyright.net/ This site from ALA’s Washington Office is really nifty. The forum section is the biggy, and you can subscribe to an RSS feed that sorta keeps you up to date when new posts arrive, in theory anyway. Bookmark to:
Apple, the “think different” company, has thrown a clot that RealPlayer 10.5 can be used to upload RealNetwork’s own music files to the Apple iPod. Apple is stunned… outraged… threatening to sue. The iPod exacerbates two current problems in technology. The first is the half-life of Studley Caps, the random upcasing of internal letters, seen […]
I am so honored to note that I’ve been appointed to the LITA Top Technology Trends committee. “At each ALA MidWinter Conference, a group of LITA leaders who are acknowledged for their reputations and expertise in the library and information technology fields meets to hammer out what they believe to be top technology trends librarians […]
Sara, I mean Librarian-in-Black, responded to my entry about subject searching. She asked, “Is it better to give them the option, as it is an option? Or to remove it, as it confuses most (if not all) patrons? I don’t have an answer. I wish I did.” I have the answer. Remove it. Hide it. […]
http://marinet.lib.ca.us/search/d Look at this subject search page. It has the most subtle and subversive humor I’ve ever seen on a library Web page. It’s pointing out that LC has arcane language. Not cookbooks, but Cookery (a rather famous example among librarians). (Only in the 1990s did LC change Water Closets to Toilets.) Bookmark to:
Alas, one must suffer for one’s art. I had wanted to present at Internet Librarian this year, to talk about the magical changes at My Place of Work. I had tentative approval, but I needed to present in the morning to ensure I didn’t miss class that evening, which would have required moving someone else’s […]
Yeah, yeah, I know you know, but I’m really pleased that California woke up and lured Susan Hildreth to Sacramento to be the State Liberrian. Her leadership at the state library will be welcome and wonderful. I predict good things to come. If I didn’t have a job, and one I like (and if I […]
I’ve been quiet because my MFA classes started this weekend; between work and school, readings and written homework, blogging was just not approachable. But yesterday afternoon I had a wonderful Librarian Experience I wanted to share, so I’m squeezing this in before class, while I wait for the student cafe to open so I can […]