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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (January 21, 2008)

bentley — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:19:20 -0500

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending January 20, 2008
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From PUBLIB: Tips for designing library buildings, from librarians.

Adrienne Furness (Homeschooling and Libraries) has a series of posts detailing the anatomy of a curriculum kit.

THE DIGITAL WORLD

On the DMCA: slideshow by Wellington Grey.

Prize-Winning Books Online: Newbery Award (1922-1924), Nobel Prize in Literature (1901-1953), Pulitzer Prize (1917-1953) (via)

The Library of Congress joins Flickr with 3,100 pictures [How]. As part of The Commons, (a joint LoC/Flickr project), visitors added about 19,000 tags total to the collection in the first 24 hours.

Report from the British Library: "Google Generation is a myth." via).

Wikipedia founder wants librarians to form and join Wikipedia Academies. Comments from Phil Bradley.

Jenica Parker Rogers-Urbanek (Attempting Elegance) is reminded that lots of people don't use technology the way she and other librarians do.

THE LIGHTER SIDE

Self Check (comic strip): Teen IM reference - Web 2.0.

QUOTE:

"I was told by a Children’s librarian a few months ago that while Adult services have been changed dramatically by technological advancements and social networking, Children’s services have basically not changed, and she didn’t see the central goals and missions of Children’s librarianship changing much in the near future." [Library Revolution]

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (January 14, 2008)

bentley — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:20:54 -0500

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending January 13, 2008
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The Library of Congress has released the Final Report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. Comments from Wade Wyckoff (WadingIn) and Daniel Chudnov (One Big Library).

U.S. News & Word Report's 31 Careers With Bright Futures 2008: Librarian. Brian Mathews (The Ubiquitous Librarian) responds to Steven Bell's, "Are you where you want to be professionally?" Comment from Annoyed Librarian.

Steve Campion (LibraryStream) continues his Learn More series of posts about the social web.

Brett Bonfield (ACRLog) has some thoughts about blogs and blogging.

Tips for conference bloggers (6 pages).

SCHOOL LIBRARIES

Joyce Valenza (Neverendingsearch) tells some of her ideas and strategies for getting teachers and databases together.

Doug Johnson (Blue Skunk Blog) asks, So what should school librarians be teaching?

ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

Steven Bell (ACRLog) on what it really means to be a faculty member. Brian Mathews (The Ubiquitous Librarian) has details of Exam Cram, a way for the library to help students at the end of the semester.

TECH STUFF

Marshall Breeding (Library Technology Guides) presented the results of his survey on librarians' satisfaction with their current ILS. Comments from Roy Tennant (Tennant: Digital Libraries) and Jonathan Rochkind (Bibliographic Wilderness).

Barbara Taranto (NYPL Labs) had some scanned-text images that could not be OCR'd, so she listed the task of text transcription on Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

Issue 1 of the Code4Lib Journal is online.

Sarah Houghton-Jan’s (LibrarianInBlack) Top Tech Trends for 2008, ALA Midwinter.

Aaron Schmidt (walking paper) writes about a library-sponsored wifi network on the downtown commercial strip.

2008

2008 is the National Year of Reading (UK) (via).

Fred 2.0 has a simple resolution for 2008. Emily Clasper (Library Revolution) has no resolutions--instead, she has a mantra: "I am not afraid..." Ryan Deschamps (The Other Librarian) has ten ideas about how he can make his life better this year.

THE LIGHTER SIDE

Elmo asks, Where are the computers in your neighborhood?

Library t-shirt of the week (that someone needs to make).

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There's Still Time To Nominate Your Favorite Blogs! LISNews 10 Blogs To Read in 2008.

Blake — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:39:06 -0500

I started putting together our list of "must read" library blogs for 2008 last month and while I have received many nominations, I could use many more! Check out 10 Blogs To Read In 2007 and 10 Blogs To Read in 2006 to see who has already made the list.

So what's the criteria, you ask?
What blogs do you read every day? What blogs help you learn? What blogs keep you informed? What blogs make you laugh? Who's the best writer out there?

Think of it this way: "I read many others, but these are the LIS blogs that I read even when time is short."

I'm looking for input from as many people as possbile so the final list is full of new faces. My goal again this year, 10 blogs that collectively paint picture of what's going on in our little world.

Send me your ideas, or leave a comment below.

Note: We all know LISNews is obviously the single most important web site in the entire history of the internet, so therefore I won't be including it on the final list.
Second Note: Anyone who made it to 10 Blogs To Read in 2006 & 2007 won't be included this year.

This Week in LibraryBlogLand

bentley — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:38:58 -0500

This Week in LibraryBlogLand will return in 2008. Happy New Year!

This Week in LibraryBlogLand (November 12, 2007)

bentley — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:27:21 -0500

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending November 11, 2007
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Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) relates a friend's frustration with her local library's catalog. Jon Udell has a conversation with Beth Jefferson about reinventing the library catalog. (Note that he has moved his LibraryLookup bookmarklet generator.)

Discussion at LibraryCrunch) about what library 2.0 is and is not. Joseph Lucia (ngc4lib) has a idea for how libraries could fund collaborative open source development. (via)

Michael Sauers (Travelin' Librarian)) tells a tale of unintended consequences of a library's Flickr account.

Nancy Larrabee (LIScareer) on what she wishes she had learned at library school.

Article in October 1 Criticas about U.S. libraries and anti-immigrant sentiment.

Georgia Harper (©ollectanea) has updated her Copyright Crash Course website.

ODDS & ENDS

The to-be-cataloged pile [2] [3].

T-shirt of the week: Library Genius 2.0 (via)

BLOGGING

Lori Reed (Library Trainer) has listed the library blogs included in Bloglines' list of Top 1000 Feeds.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

Global Research Library summit (October 2007)
- talk by Jon Udell.

Society of American Archivists (SAA) Annual 2007 (August 28-September 1)
- Notes from Jeanne Kramer-Smyth (SpellboundBlog)

Internet Librarian 2007 (October 29-31)
- Cool tools for library webmasters.

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (November 5, 2007)

bentley — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:41:13 -0500

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending November 4, 2007
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(Alas, Numfar has danced his last dance)

Ryan Deschamps (The Other Librarian) asks, Will universal accessibility at libraries even be possible in 10 years? Anthony Grafton (New Yorker) on digitization and reading. Comments from Steve (Intermittent Thinking) and David Rothman (TeleRead). Jeff Scott (Gather No Dust) has some thoughts about print versus e-books.

John Miedema (slowreading.net) has a four-part series about audiobooks.

(Note: all these links are in Spanish.) Madrid mother told to leave library storytime when she started breastfeeding her two-month-old. When she complained, she was told that her rights did not trump the rights of others, "just as it is not appropriate to breastfeed at the movies or in the theater where, besides, the actors could feel aggrieved by such lack of respect." Discussion at the IWETEL mailing list starting on October 30. (via Mixobitácora).

Phyllis (Something New Every Day) read that 10% fewer people report using a library web site in 2007 compared to 2005.

Michael J. McGrorty (Publib) writes about the librarian blogs he doesn't read.

Ryan Deschamps (The Other Librarian) wonders about the ethics of conference attendance in a networked world.

ODDS & ENDS

Alyson (Chapter Two) was one of 50 people (150 more were turned away) who watched the Australian TV show The Librarians at the ABC library.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

Paul Waelchli (Research Quest) is posting and discussing his presentation, "Educational Games: Games that teach, not Preach".

Promise for the future, or legacy of the past? : cataloguing in a changing world (September 7)
- Papers.

Internet Librarian 2007 (October 29-31)
- Billie (Hiding in the Stacks)
- David Lee King
- Evette Miya Atkin (The unLibrarian)
- Jenny Levine (Shifted Librarian) (starts here).
- Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack) (starts here).
- Lots o' bloggers.

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (October 29, 2007)

bentley — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:02:00 -0400

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 28, 2007
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Online learning and its impact on public libraries: Carleen (woody+wired), then Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free), then Carleen again.

lislemck (Biblioblather) just finished one of those 23 Things Challenges. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) on blogging about the library experience.

Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib) is compiling a directory of experimental library tool sites. John Miedema posted his Eight laws of library technology.

Daniel Chudnov (One Big Library) points to two articles about the World Digital Library.

K. G. Schneider (Free Range Librarian) reports on OCLC's report on sharing, privacy, and trust.

LIBRARIANSHIP

Back in August, Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack had some thoughts about library literature. Angel Rivera (Gypsy Librarian) responds.

Lazygal (Killin' time being lazy) has some thoughts about what it means to be a "real" school librarian.

Krafty Librarian writes about the difference between academic medical librarians and hospital librarians. Krafty Librarian also notes that librarians can help decrease hospital length of stay.

John Miedema has some thoughts as he finds himself halfway through a part-time MLIS.

A volunteer's first encounter with AACR2. (via)

SURVEYS

Survey on middle management in libraries.

Survey on library use of and relations with mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Ebay, My Space, YouTube and others.

Survey of academic websites. (via)

SUBJECT GUIDES

From Meredith Farkas, more about 2.0 subject guides.

ODDS & ENDS

Krafty Librarian with a reminder to check your domain name expiration date. [Ed.: but watch out for fake renewal emails]

T-shirt of the week (via)

The story of the superhero librarian who rescued the children from the scary monster.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

ASIS&T 2007 (October 19-24)
- Christina Pikas (Christina's LIS Rant).
- Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib).

Internet Librarian 2007 (October 29-31)
- Lots o' bloggers
- Twitter.

AASL 2007 (October 24-28)
- Christopher Harris (Infomancy).

Strategic Thinking and Planning (with Larry Seaquist) (October 19-21)
- Duane McCollum (The Information Auditor)

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (October 22, 2007)

bentley — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:38:00 -0400

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 21, 2007
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(Sorry if some of this is old news. I didn't read library blogs while I was otherwise occupied, so everything I'm seeing in blogs this week is new to me.)
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While preparing a speech on social media, Shel Israel (Global Neighbourhoods) asked, What should I tell the librarians? Many answers in the comments. Another comment from BrandToBeDetermined.

Christine Schwartz (Cataloging Futures) points to an article by Alan Danskin about perceived threats to the future of cataloguing. Comments from Karen Coyle (Coyle's InFormation). Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) has a few comments about cataloguing for the users.

Mary Carmen Chimato (Circ and Serve) wrote a couple of posts about A Day in the Life of an access services librarian.

Cynthia Taylor (Nebraska Library Commission Blog) points to the Library Career Resource Center.

Agnese Caruso (Slaw) reports on a NE2007 session that listed ways to communicate the value of special librarians to management (via)

New York Times: several research libraries say no to Google/Microsoft and yes to the Open Content Alliance for their book scanning projects.

SUBJECT GUIDES

Adrienne Furness (Homeschooling and Libraries) has posted the contents of her library's subject kits for homeschoolers.

From iLibrarian, a librarian's guide to creating 2.0 subject guides.

INTERVIEWS

Michael Stephens points to an interview with John Blyberg

Eight librarians were interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education about the future of the library profession. via librarian.net, here's a temporary free link to the article. For the complete interviews: the questions are here; the answers are in the podcasts: Joe Sanchez; Susan Gibbons; Nick Baker; Casey Bisson; Jessamyn West; Sarah Kostelecky; Char Booth; Brian Mathews.

BLOGGING

Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has posted the results of her 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere.

Walt Crawford (Walt at Random) has been thinking about blogging. Meredith Farkas (Information Wants To Be Free) has been thinking about anonymous blogging.

LIBRARY HUMOR

Stephen Abram (Stephen's Lighthouse) lists three library comic strips (plus another two).

ODDS AND ENDS

Probably the prettiest library t-shirt: Online Medieval & Classical Library.

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (October 15, 2007)

bentley — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:30:00 -0400

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending October 15, 2007
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First off, apologies for being away so long. What was supposed to be a one-week distraction stretched to six weeks. I'm about caught up on things I neglected in that time, so today's TWiL consists mostly of odds and ends I hadn't used yet. I expect next week's to be more like a normal TWiL. Thanks again for your patience.

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David Shedden (Poynter Online) wrote a history of digital news from 1969 to the present.

Speaking of space-age firsts: the Gail Borden Library (Elgin, Ill.) became the first public library to host a live chat with International Space Station astronauts.

T-shirt of the Week.

Cartoons:
- Questionable Content: "Have you ever seen a gaggle of drunken librarians?"

- Real Life Comics: think before you give books as gifts (language warning).

Quotes:
- "If you were giving the scholarship to an intellectually brilliant kid who happens to play a sport, that's fine. But they give it to a functional illiterate who can't read a cereal box, and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills. That's not opportunity. If you want to give financial help to minorities, go find the ones who are at the library after school." William Dowling, Confessions of a Spoilsport. (via)

This Week in LibraryBlogLand (August 20, 2007)

bentley — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:06:00 -0400

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
week ending August 19, 2007
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I didn't get to the library feeds this week, so here are a couple of posts that I came across elsewhere.
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Economist Douglas Galbi (purple motes) notes that public libraries outperformed video rental businesses.

Book editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Making Light) requested titles of "scholarly or reference works so bad that you must never, ever cite them, lest you be cruelly mocked by your fellows." 500+ responses and discussion as of Sunday night.

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