This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending July 24, 2005
Michael McGrorty (Library Dust) talks about the lessons (maybe) learned from the closing of the Salinas library.
explodedlibrary’s Morgan Wilson disagrees with Federal Court of Australia’s “anti-linking decision.”
Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free) explains how to be a kept-up distance learning librarian. Christopher Harris (Infomancy) talks about information being only potentially overwhelming. Mark, whose thoughts are broken would like to start a journal article virtual reading group.
In the June 2005 issue of THE Journal Online, Laura Turner lists the “20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have” and includes several links to tutorials. On his weblog, David Penrose will “take each skill and elaborate from the perspective of an Instructional Designer specializing in Online Learning.” In a comment elsewhere, mdoneil thinks every librarian should have something like the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL).
Anyone interested in the day-to-day of converting a library to Linux should probably be reading linux librarian.
Rochelle random access Mazar talks about Wikipedia, peer review, and the implied credibility of for-profit reference publishers. T. Scott responds.
Chad Library Voice Boeninger learns about wikis and good neighbors.
Alane (It’s all good) wonders, “if original publications are amended, augmented, and re-released [online, in weblogs, etc.] by people other than the owner, will even the upcoming ‘AACR3’ be anywhere remotely adequate to describe the bibliographic solar system that evolves?”
Mark (the thoughts are broken) comments on blogging in academia, blogging and your job, workplace speech, and the “whys” of blogging. Gypsy Librarian Angel talks about why he blogs.
Jessamyn (librarian.net) links to the Congressional Research Service July 6 report, “Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act.”
Rochelle, at TInfoil + Raccoon, is confused by the ALA press release about the librarian loan forgiveness plan. Mark (the thoughts are broken) thinks the plan is an altruistic and inexpensive boondoggle.
Chad (Hidden Peanuts) asks, how do you (not your library, *you*) use RSS feeds?
LibrarianInBlack Sarah Houghton points to a patron point of view re eBook DRM.
With all the talk about targeting gamers, Jay wonders if there are any video games that can be used to teach library skills. John Scalzo, The Video Game Librarian, announces that his column in Gaming Target will now appear every month.
“Will the Internet put public libraries out of business?” That’s what Wired magazine asked Sue Davidsen, Michael Gorman, and Jessamyn West. On librarian.net, Jessamyn expands on her answer. Prophet (testimony) responds to the sidebar. On LISNews, people respond to a Walnut Creek Journal in which it’s claimed that the Internet has made traditional libraries obsolete.
darcusblog thinks about metadata and the semantic web and asks, why not RDF?
Laura Crossett (lis.dom) has the list of gay-themed books that were in the Hillsborough County library display.
Lorcan Dempsey came back from the LIBER 34th Annual Conference with a lot to think about.
Last week, Library Autonomous Zone offered a “Gentle Introduction to Darknets.”
The Nitro Librarian tells of the many ways that working in a public library is “raw fun.”
A discussion on LISNews: what is your preferred term for non MLS library staff?
Follow-up: Stephen Abram (Stephen’s Lighthouse) wonders why it’s so hard to quantify the impact of public libraries.
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending July 24, 2005
Michael McGrorty (Library Dust) talks about the lessons (maybe) learned from the closing of the Salinas library.
explodedlibrary’s Morgan Wilson disagrees with Federal Court of Australia’s “anti-linking decision.”
Meredith Farkas (Information Wants to Be Free) explains how to be a kept-up distance learning librarian. Christopher Harris (Infomancy) talks about information being only potentially overwhelming. Mark, whose thoughts are broken would like to start a journal article virtual reading group.
In the June 2005 issue of THE Journal Online, Laura Turner lists the “20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have” and includes several links to tutorials. On his weblog, David Penrose will “take each skill and elaborate from the perspective of an Instructional Designer specializing in Online Learning.” In a comment elsewhere, mdoneil thinks every librarian should have something like the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL).
Anyone interested in the day-to-day of converting a library to Linux should probably be reading linux librarian.
Rochelle random access Mazar talks about Wikipedia, peer review, and the implied credibility of for-profit reference publishers. T. Scott responds.
Chad Library Voice Boeninger learns about wikis and good neighbors.
Alane (It’s all good) wonders, “if original publications are amended, augmented, and re-released [online, in weblogs, etc.] by people other than the owner, will even the upcoming ‘AACR3’ be anywhere remotely adequate to describe the bibliographic solar system that evolves?”
Mark (the thoughts are broken) comments on blogging in academia, blogging and your job, workplace speech, and the “whys” of blogging. Gypsy Librarian Angel talks about why he blogs.
Jessamyn (librarian.net) links to the Congressional Research Service July 6 report, “Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act.”
Rochelle, at TInfoil + Raccoon, is confused by the ALA press release about the librarian loan forgiveness plan. Mark (the thoughts are broken) thinks the plan is an altruistic and inexpensive boondoggle.
Chad (Hidden Peanuts) asks, how do you (not your library, *you*) use RSS feeds?
LibrarianInBlack Sarah Houghton points to a patron point of view re eBook DRM.
With all the talk about targeting gamers, Jay wonders if there are any video games that can be used to teach library skills. John Scalzo, The Video Game Librarian, announces that his column in Gaming Target will now appear every month.
“Will the Internet put public libraries out of business?” That’s what Wired magazine asked Sue Davidsen, Michael Gorman, and Jessamyn West. On librarian.net, Jessamyn expands on her answer. Prophet (testimony) responds to the sidebar. On LISNews, people respond to a Walnut Creek Journal in which it’s claimed that the Internet has made traditional libraries obsolete.
darcusblog thinks about metadata and the semantic web and asks, why not RDF?
Laura Crossett (lis.dom) has the list of gay-themed books that were in the Hillsborough County library display.
Lorcan Dempsey came back from the LIBER 34th Annual Conference with a lot to think about.
Last week, Library Autonomous Zone offered a “Gentle Introduction to Darknets.”
The Nitro Librarian tells of the many ways that working in a public library is “raw fun.”
A discussion on LISNews: what is your preferred term for non MLS library staff?
Follow-up: Stephen Abram (Stephen’s Lighthouse) wonders why it’s so hard to quantify the impact of public libraries.
totally admin (whine?) 🙂
Is there anyway for the line breaks to come through in the RSS feed? I have to, *sigh*, actually come to the page to read this
Re:totally admin (whine?)
Which feed are you using? I’m not even sure why the line breaks would be not there in any of the feeds, but one feed could be doing some over-scrubbing by accident.
Re:totally admin (whine?)
http://www.lisnews.com/lisnews.rss
I’m reading it in Bloglines with 796 of my closest friends 😉
Re:totally admin (whine?)
Strange. Not sure what Bloglines is doing, the feed seems fine, or atleast on first glance it looks ok.
Thanks for pointing that out, I’ll look at it and see what I can figure out.
Re:totally admin (whine?) – Ditto
All of my LISNews feeds in Bloglines – the main feed and any journals I read never have any line breaks.
Re:totally admin (whine?) – Ditto
Yup, true ’nuff. I subscribe to the http://www.lisnews.com/rss/descriptions.rss feed and have seen nary a line break (or any other nod to formatting) in all my days.