This Week in LibraryBlogland (14 August 05)

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 14 August 2005

(Another long roundup this week, so I’ve put it behind the cut so it doesn’t take over the whole page.)

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 14 August 2005

(Another long roundup this week, so I’ve put it behind the cut so it doesn’t take over the whole page.)Christopher Harris (Infomancy) live-blogged the 2005 SLMS Leadership Retreat (starts here).

As part of library instruction to a business communication class, Chad Boeninger (Library Voice) demonstrates to the students just how much money the library spends to support their academic studies.

Christine Borne, a NextGen Librarian, shares what she’s learned in three years of being a professional librarian.

Karen G. Schneider (Free Range Librarian) posted the “virtual handout” for her presentation about blogs. Steven Bell (The Kept-Up Academic Librarian) points to a two-page handout (pdf) called, “7 Things You Should Know About Videoblogging.” Aaron Schmidt (walking paper) has posted materials from his NSLS presentation about IM in libraries.

Joyce Weese Moll has started a list of MLS student bloggers. Mark Lindner writes about being a blogger and an MLS student.

Walt Crawford’s newest Cites & Insights came out this week and included an article about the biblioblogosphere (and here I thought “libraryblogland” was a mouthful!). Here is a list of the blogs he discussed. In this issue, he also covers Google, Creative Commons, and Orphan Works. Marlène Delhaye (BiblioAcid) reminds Walt that not all blogs are in English.

TangognaT comments about using Bloglines to measure readership; Library Clips talks about blog ranking; and Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rant) points to a proposed metric for measuring blogs.

Industrial Librarian Dave says that, since there are so many library associations, what about forming a joint venture between associations like CLA, ALA, SLA, MLA, etc., and have joint interest groups that are shared between the associations?

Michael Lorenzen (Information Literacy Land of Confusion) points to an 2003 ERIC Digest article about the natural life cycle of libraries.

Amanda Etches-Johnson (blogwithoutalibrary.net) is maintaining a bibliography of articles about blogging and RSS in the library world.

The :30 Librarian writes “Why (Many) Medical Librarians deserve to lose their jobs.” Dave, the Industrial Librarian agrees that librarians spend too much time doing clerical tasks.

Paul Pival, the Distant Librarian, tells how he used Amazon’s “Search inside the book” to get around an ILL problem.

LibraryLaw Blog’s Peter Hirtle writes about how to investigate the copyright status of a serial.

Laura Crossett (lis.dom) writes about the thrills and chills of buying and weeding YA and the anxiety of influence.

Marianne, the Library Supporter, points to an article entitled, “How to Be a Leader in Your Field: A Guide for Students in Professional Schools.”

Back in July, BiblioAcid posted a picture of a book mural painted on the side of a Kansas City parking structure “to inspire people to utilize the downtown Central Library.” [Bronze winner, BusinessWeek Annual Design Awards 2005. Category: Environment.]

Liz Burns at Pop Goes the Library attended the annual conference of the World Future Society and has a couple of posts about it.

Susan Nevelow Mart at LibraryLaw Blog recently found out that her local library has browsable hold shelves and she asks, What about patron privacy? On the other hand, Kevin Smith (Fiddling Librarian 3.0) has noticed that patrons who can no longer read the little Due Date card to find out whether they’ve already read a book are improvising by putting their mark on the books.

In his post, “Librarians are arrogant asses,” Ross Singer (Dilettante’s Ball) points to Aaron Krowne’s paper (pdf), “How Free Culture Will Save Digital Libraries.”

Stephen Abram (Stephen’s Lighthouse) notes, re teens and the Internet, that libraries working on their 5 and 10 year plans should remember that the teens of today are the parents of tomorrow.

As follow-up to the SLMS Leadership Retreat he attended, Christopher Harris (Infomancy) has posted “suggestions for libraries in the areas of Access, Amount, Love of Reading, and Non-Fiction.”

David King (Dave’s Blog) points to a set of corporate blogging guidelines that should be easy enough to adapt for library use.

Meredith Farkas, whose Information Wants To Be Free, writes about WebJunction, wikis, and online communities.

In a comment at Confessions of a Mad Librarian, Chuck Shelton of The Book Standard welcomes “notes from anyone about library issues and areas of coverage you’d like to see more of; or that merit journalistic investigation/analysis.”

Christina Rants that “our whole model of online presence needs to be changed.

Seen in a blog comment: “My cutter is 921 HUG. If I were single I’d add ‘and right now I’m one short!'”

George Needham (It’s all good) writes about questions that came up at the Leadership Institute of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Library Alliance.

jajacobs at Library Autonomous Zone asks, What is Network Neutrality and Why Should Libraries Care?

Laura Blalock, the Creative Librarian, has some job hunting advice.

As part of her series of columns on copyright, Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti (TeleRead) writes about Fair use.

At MaisonBisson there are questions about whether the university is allowed to digitally preserve their deteriorating vinyl recordings.

pamryan.info has several links to discussion about the e-textbook experiment.

CILIP President Debby Shorley writes in the latest FreePint Newsletter that the future of the information profession lies in anticipating our users’ needs and making the goals of the communities we serve our goals as well.

In this week’s Ex Libris, Marylaine Block writes about what she looks for in library websites and too often did not find.

G, at Library Bitch, thinks ALA/APA’s proposed “public librarian certification” should be called MLS/MLIS for Dummies.

Rochelle Random Access Mazar looked at what search strings people use to get to her blog.

Follow-up: Dorothea Salo (Caveat Lector) has a rebuttal to Eric Lease Morgan’s article about the five technologies systems librarians should know.

Follow-up Jenny Levine (shifted librarian) explains, re her post about the digital audiobook divide, why audio eBooks are different. Sarah Houghton, the LibrarianInBlack, has more questions.

Follow-up: Jane at A Wandering Eyre writes about Open URL and why every librarian should know about it.

Follow-up: The Fiddling Librarian replies to Greg McClay’s comments about his list of “Five Things Librarians Should Be Reading.”

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I’m taking a short break, so next week’s round-up will be compiled by Blake Carver. (Thanks, Blake!). If you’re interested in being a Guest TWiLler sometime, let me know and we’ll figure out the details.