I won’t be blogging for a few days; I’m taking a writer’s holiday (lots of reading). Walt Crawford recommended an occasional writing sabbatical in his latest Cites and Insights, and it’s a really good idea. Note that I’ve rewritten the RSS tutorial. It now uses Gary Price’s Resource Shelf as the example, though I think […]
The Department of Education announced an official White House site called “Season of Stories,” in which the White House presents stories and read-alouds, some by senior White House officials. Not only that, continued the press release, but “At the same site, every weeknight at 8:00 p.m., bedtime stories will be read by administration officials.” Secretary […]
Found this well-tempered blog on RSS in government through a mention on the Shifted Librarian: http://www.rssgov.com/ One of the managing editors is Ray Matthews, an RSS disciple based in the Utah state government. Ray has done a lot to champion RSS, and his “workshop,” though primarily geared toward the implementor (versus the end-user), is terrific. […]
Had Thanksgiving with a large group of librarians, and we finally focused on one key reference question: can anyone prove or disprove the story that Lynn Cheney wrote lesbian pulp fiction? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that…) Bookmark to:
http://oclc.org/news/releases/20031124.htm Was I the only one to wonder why OCLC would raise such a kerfuffle over this small issue while negotiating with Google over a deal related to dumping a gadzillion OCLC records (created by its members, no less) into the Google database? Bookmark to:
Oh, tasty treat, for those who never metadata they didn’t like! The office of OCLC Research has its own feed: http://oclc.org/research/announcements/oclc_research_announcements.rdf Bookmark to:
Very few narrative blogs are good enough to capture my attention, but my finicky standards are met by The Laughing Librarian http://laughinglibrarian.com/ and the blog for the Lipstick Librarian http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/blog/. I particularly like the “filtered” version of The Laughing Librarian, and I appreciate Linda Absher’s willingness to let it all hang out (and her ability […]
In a Web4Lib thread responding to a rather acerbic article about libraries from the Philadelphia Weekly, there was a great post from Suellen Stringer-Hye, reminding us with a few words and a link of Ted Hughe’s wonderful poem about libraries. Even the most misfitting child Who’s chanced upon the library’s worth, Sits with the genius […]
Barbie.com’s career choices are now down to three choices: A Librarian An architect A policewoman Get on that site and tell Mattel–Barbie is born for librarianship! Bookmark to:
(Thursday’s entry was a victim of a very bad technology siege involving a motherboard. Don’t ask.) Bookmark to: