More link love today, as I work on my talk for Thursday (issues for will range from Ranganathan to Andrew Abbott; my job is to set catalogers forth on gossamer wings). Jessamyn over at librarian.net says it best, as is often the case: Someone asked me during one of my talks if I knew of […]
Letter today in the New York Times (thanks to Ted Cuzillo): —————    To the Editor:                          I love Maureen Dowd’s characterization of the wonkish National Archive              data collectors as the new “macho heroes†of Washington (“A Vice              President Without Borders, Bordering on Lunacy,†column, June 24). That              they refuse to be bullied and cowed by […]
Best: The GLBTRT book awards brunch, which not only featured a very respectable buffet—the eggs were creamy and hot, the grapefruit juice was tart and cold, and the cheese blintzes were just plain naughty—but won us over with funny, thoughtful speeches by pioneer gay library activist Jim Carmichael and “Fun Home†author Alison Bechdel (the […]
At Saturday’s “Do Libraries Innovate?” debate (which morphed into “Can ALA be Saved?”, though that was fun too), I got up my nerve to share part of my assessment about The Hollywood Librarian, a movie about librarians long, long in the making. Well-framed blog posts are popping up all over, but LJ’s article summarizes the […]
I’m in post-ALA reentry, swinging my scythe through the bulging inbox. So to resume FRL’ing, let me share this video last week for I created for the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. Someone commented this is the first-ever kitchen video on digital preservation. It’s a bit rough — i couldn’t get Emma to stay off the […]
 Today at first felt like a slog, because I couldn’t wrap my brain around how to start an article that I have to get done tonight (really, I do) even as other deadlines stare me in the eye and say, “Hurry up, kiddo.” I had random parts to it, but I didn’t have the right […]
I was hoping someone would take random quotes from Michael Gorman and do a remix, and David has done just that, very amusingly. Thank goodness you can listen to it, since we Blog People are incapable of sustained reading of complex texts. Bookmark to:
A Kiss for Jake, June 16, 2007 Originally uploaded by mstephens7 (Update: Jake died this morning, God rest his soul.) There is much harrumphing over social networks in some quarters, and a certain pulling in of horns from people who overdid it in the first place. But sometimes when the shock of the new has […]
Note: somewhere in this wee catechism is the request for assistance to create a custom WordPress feed, possibly in Atom (only because it’s an unused feed in a WordPress installation I’m using). I’ve found some documentation, but real-world experience would be gratefully received.) ———————– A few months back I wrote for Techsource about the need […]
A really significant trend that I’ve been writing about for my next ALA Techsource post, due out this coming week, is our willingness to stretch beyond traditional standards — Dewey and AACR2 — in order to serve our users better. On NPR I just heard Marshall Shore, adult services coordinator from the Maricopa (AZ) public […]