This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 20 March 2006
Steven B (ACRLog) discusses the Myth of LIS Grads As Finished Product.
Rory Litwin (Library Juice) disagrees with the “librarian’s stamp of approval” approach to Internet directories and explains his stance on the lii.org funding cut.
Joy Weese Moll (Wanderings of a Student Librarian) has some advice on how to choose wiki software.
Lorcan Dempsey says, re patterns of expectations, that, just as a habitual library user is at home in any library, so should it be with library websites. Chris Jowaisas (TechnoBiblio) points to how Iowa and Oregon are providing their public libraries with website templates. More.
Rory Litwin (Library Juice) discusses whether we should be teaching patrons how to use the databases.
Karen G. Schneider (ALA TechSource) writes about How OPACs suck. John Blyberg (blyberg.net) discusses the impact of social OPACs. Richard Wallis (panlibus) asks, How much more do you want on your OPAC screen? (via)
Michael Sauers (Travelin’ Librarian) writes about Library WiFi access. More.
Check out who’s on this year’s Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers list! Also, congratulations to Walt Crawford on the occasion of the 75th issue of Cites & Insights.
Andrea Mercado (LibraryTechtonics) is blogging her Librarians Professional Delegation trip to China. Starts here.
Christopher Harris (Infomancy) writes about how Response to Intervention (RTI) will affect teacher librarians. More.
Raizel Liebler (LibraryLaw Blog) tells “The Tale of One Bunny, Copyright Statements, & Public Domain.”
CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS
SXSW Interactive (March 10-14): Highlights from the panel, “How to Blog for Money by Learning From Comics,” which included Bill Barnes (co-author of library comic strip Unshelved) and Keving Cheng (co-author of interfaces comic strip OK/Cancel).
Reading 2.0 (March 16): Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar posted a “reading list of links to summarize the discussion.” (via)
PLA (March 21-25): Blog.
Computers in Libraries (March 22-24): Bloggers. The Technorati, del.icio.us and Flickr tag is “cil2006.”
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 20 March 2006
Steven B (ACRLog) discusses the Myth of LIS Grads As Finished Product.
Rory Litwin (Library Juice) disagrees with the “librarian’s stamp of approval” approach to Internet directories and explains his stance on the lii.org funding cut.
Joy Weese Moll (Wanderings of a Student Librarian) has some advice on how to choose wiki software.
Lorcan Dempsey says, re patterns of expectations, that, just as a habitual library user is at home in any library, so should it be with library websites. Chris Jowaisas (TechnoBiblio) points to how Iowa and Oregon are providing their public libraries with website templates. More.
Rory Litwin (Library Juice) discusses whether we should be teaching patrons how to use the databases.
Karen G. Schneider (ALA TechSource) writes about How OPACs suck. John Blyberg (blyberg.net) discusses the impact of social OPACs. Richard Wallis (panlibus) asks, How much more do you want on your OPAC screen? (via)
Michael Sauers (Travelin’ Librarian) writes about Library WiFi access. More.
Check out who’s on this year’s Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers list! Also, congratulations to Walt Crawford on the occasion of the 75th issue of Cites & Insights.
Andrea Mercado (LibraryTechtonics) is blogging her Librarians Professional Delegation trip to China. Starts here.
Christopher Harris (Infomancy) writes about how Response to Intervention (RTI) will affect teacher librarians. More.
Raizel Liebler (LibraryLaw Blog) tells “The Tale of One Bunny, Copyright Statements, & Public Domain.”
CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS
SXSW Interactive (March 10-14): Highlights from the panel, “How to Blog for Money by Learning From Comics,” which included Bill Barnes (co-author of library comic strip Unshelved) and Keving Cheng (co-author of interfaces comic strip OK/Cancel).
Reading 2.0 (March 16): Tim O’Reilly at O’Reilly Radar posted a “reading list of links to summarize the discussion.” (via)
PLA (March 21-25): Blog.
Computers in Libraries (March 22-24): Bloggers. The Technorati, del.icio.us and Flickr tag is “cil2006.”
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday before noon (Central time). [Feeds]
RL “Gets It”
Those Library Juice essays are a great read. They echo some of the points made earlier about how imparting evaluation skills to users is at least as important as selecting quality sources ourselves.
I’ve been waiting for more “juice” ever since it halted last year… it’s nice to see Mr. Litwin back in the game.
Thanks for the note and the juxtaposition
Thanks for noting the diamond anniversary…and for the juxtaposition with a group I suspect I’ll never be part of. But then, we standers & watchers also play our roles…
hip hip hooray lowercase movers & shakers
Yeah bentley for the rebirth of the glorious TWiL for us; and huzzah walt for 75 issues (the around fifty I’ve read comprising most of my professional development in the last ten years).
You are both more than worthy of any award sobriquet a paid journalist can dream up. My highest accolades to you both, truly. Oh, I should not leave out Blake!