LimeSurvey.org – The Leading Open Source Tool for Online Surveys – Bug and Feature Requests (tags: survyes) Amazon.com: The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina–the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist: Books: Ivor van Heerden,Mike Bryan (tags: Katrina storm hurricane) Desert Storm: An Arizona Library Dumps Dewey – 8/1/2007 – School Library […]
Beyond Google: How do students conduct academic research? Outstanding article by Dr. Alison Head on how students conduct research. (tags: research students Google discovery) Scan This Book! – 8/15/2007 – Library Journal Interview with Brewster Kahle about the Open Content Alliance. (tags: OCA Kahle google) Xerxes : Articles : Improving the SFX menu Twenty-minute presentation […]
Limits of self–organization: Peer production and “laws of quality†(tags: Wikipedia) Inside CDL: eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) (tags: RDF XTF libraries CDL indexing xml) Standards: choice, reality, and concerns – Tech Tidbits “For me, the point is that standards work is hampered by our individual, collective and conflicting points of view.” (tags: standards NCIP) The […]
Fridge door handle broken Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian I came home from the 9 a.m. service scheming to whip up a special surprise brunch for Sandy. The surprise was on me when a fridge handle snapped off in my hand. I’ve been much better about getting to aerobics classes at the YMCA… yet I still […]
Mine. No share. Go way! Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian My Librarything “Early Reviewers” copy of Nikita Lalwani’s “Gifted” showed up yesterday, and when the afternoon storm knocked out the electricity, I used this as my excuse to sit near a window (not TOO near a window) and begin reading by ambient light. I greatly enjoyed […]
Frog Strangler Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian About two o’clock today, the house began to twitch… well, not really, but we had a thunderstorm so loud I levitated the first time it cracked the sky. The power went out several times. The cats flattened themselves in the back of the bedroom closet. I gave up on […]
Yes, the long national nightmare is over! I have real employment, with great people in a wonderful organization! As a: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT (It was capitalized in the job announcement, so I assume that’s how it is usually spelled, OH, AND WHY NOT!) And it is at: College Center for Library Automation (CCLA) Which […]
Tonight the Tallahassee Writers Association featured a talk about description by Janet Burroway, FSU writing prof and author of the classic textbook, Writing Fiction. I was cranky and had a pounding headache when I arrived, but Burroway engaged so wonderfully with her audience that I forgot all about the challenges of the day as she […]
Today Free Range Librarian turns four years old! Now, today is the official blogiversary — the day I first put a post into a Movable Type blog I had installed myself. I entered three posts in July, 2003 (two of which I had written and previously posted elsewhere), but I didn’t blog again until November, […]
’tis a bit oblique without my voiceover, but gives you some idea of what I discussed at ASERL‘s “Age of Discovery” conference yesterday. (For example, it doesn’t include my explanation that after Dewey and Cutter had a fallout, Dewey got the big numbers and Cutter got the small ones.) Bookmark to: