My online presentation, “Death to Jargon,” went pretty good today, for a first-time-talk, though at one point I began stammering and I realized it was because I was talking to over fifty people I couldn’t see or hear. So I went inward and focused on the topic, as if I were presenting to myself, and […]
So Wyoming rolls out this ad campaign for libraries with the silhouette of a naked woman on a mudflap and once again I’m in a mild (very mild, custard-sans-even-vanilla) conundrum. I can be a Totally Cool post-feminist sex-positive librarian who gets the sheer irony of the juxtaposition of traditionally sexist images with the concept of […]
[updated] I woke up early Saturday morning, the last day of a galvanizing good conference on the future of library catalogs (Carl Grant and Michael Norman were especially good; no, they were amazing, and Kate Sheehan of Librarything for Libraries was fabu), and tore my presentation to shreds. My talk the previous day had been […]
In a couple of places I’d mentioned that in response to various surveys of librarian blogs, I’d make my own list of my top 25 “favorite” blogs. On consideration, I won’t do any such thing, simply because I don’t have a list of 3, 25, 50, or even 100 “favorite” library blogs. Blogs become more […]
Be one of the first 10 people to identify the books of the call numbers mentioned in the song, Addy Will Know, and win a CD by the Indie Pop Band SNMNMNM. O.k., I never heard of them, either, but the mother of one of the band members wrote me to promote this song… and […]
By way of FLA email today (and thanks, ALA!): ———————– FLA’s New Legislative Action Alert System This message is sent through FLA’s new legislative alert service, CapWiz that we will be using to ask you to contact your legislators. All FLA members with email addresses have been subscribed. If you want to unsubscribe see the […]
Quite often, I really love librarians, and this is one of those times. The Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Library has ported the intriguing Ithaka Report into CommentPress to make it easier to engage with the text. In the words of the authors, “this paper argues that a renewed commitment to publishing […]
Yum, yum, yum, I seriously love my local public library! I’ve lived all over, and let me tell you, that’s not always the case. Some libraries have lousy collections, some are disorganized, some have mean staff… but I get to Tallahassee and I see a library that does the absolute best with what it can […]
Over at ACRLBlog, Steven Bell fressed that “library resources” got the big ignore on a list of “top 100 e-learning tools.” My first bit of advice (which I also shared on the blog) is that when we see this happening we should skip the hand-wringing and take action. Why not pull together a dozen librarian […]
Greetings to those of you following a link from Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics’ Circle. I’m honored to have been able to share my thoughts with you about the future of literary journals. For those FRL readers who haven’t read that post, I think you’ll find it’s not easily definable. In […]