This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 7 August 2005
Are you a library student? Joy Weese Moll (Wanderings of a Student Librarian) has started a series of entries about how to succeed in library school.
Discussion about OpenWorldCat starts at Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog and continues at Karen G. Schneider’s Free Range Librarian blog. Karen follows up with a question about OpenURL which Lorcan answers.
Infomancy’s Christopher Harris wonders, could you outsource a library? More.
The Flickr group photo pool, Libraries and librarians continues to grow (900+ photos as of this morning). LibraryTechtonics’ Andrea Mercado talks about the policy issues that came up when her library started posting pictures on Flickr.
Laura Crossett (lisdom) points out that the answer to, “Is Wikipedia/Google/the Internet a good source of information? is not “Yes” or “No” but rather, “A good source of information for what?” Jane at A Wandering Eyre agrees. misseli, at Confessions of a Mad Librarian, points to a Forbes magazine article about how the public library is better than Google. Stephen Abram (Stephen’s Lighthouse) also comments. Norma Bruce at LISNews.com has a story about researchers who only want to use Google.
re the news reports about Wikipedia’s plans to freeze “stable” pages, Luke Rosenberger (lbr) explains that the news reports got it wrong.
Ross Singer at Dilettante’s Ball asks, What is the role of the OPAC in the modern library? Ryan Eby at libdev wonders if there’s a way to use the OPAC to advertise related library services which mostly remain unknown to patrons.
Lisle at Biblioblatherblog responds to Thomas Mann’s “Research at Risk” article. James Jacobs at diglet says Mann missed a couple of important points.
Dave Hook, the Industrial Librarian, explains why blogs & RSS feeds will help drive open-access journal publishing. Lorcan Dempsey points to a CILIP article in which the question is asked, Is it really safe to dispose of print journals?
Steven Bell, the Kept-Up Academic Librarian, points to a USA today article about college students using RSS for up-to-date research. Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib) says his library has a new guide to using RSS for research alerts. misc.information points to links about RSS and blogging within the Academic/Research/Scientific community. Dave Mattson, of the Ten Thousand Year Blog, points to a list of Things You Can Do With RSS (“Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server”).
Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rant) wonders, Is blogging for personal information management useful for all professions and personality types or just for writers and information workers?
Singapore’s Rambling Librarian had an entertaining post about the Desperate Chinese Romance Housewives phenomenon, but replaced it with a less colorful version. He then posted some thoughts about blogging: “What would you do if someone took issue with your blog post and think you should take it down?” Angel, the Gypsy Librarian, points to a JMLA editorial about blogging. T. Scott Plutchak, who wrote the editorial, responds.
Because of domain problems, explodedlibrary.info can be found temporarily at its original URL. explodedlibrary is expected back at its regular address on Friday.
Jessamyn (librarian.net) writes about what she does at work all day.
schwagbag’s Sherri Vokey finds the stats for their first two months of IM reference encouraging. Chad Boeninger, the Library Voice, asks, Should we identify ourselves to our IM patrons with our real names?
Andrew Gray was looking through a very old library journal and came across this agreement made in 1632 between Aberdeen Town Council and Robert Downie, who was at the time librarian of Marischal College, part of the University of Aberdeen. (It helps to read the language note at the bottom of the post first.)
Carnival of the Infosciences #1 is online.
Tony Stevens and Ken Chad at panlibus discuss the DCMS/MLA report, “Public Libraries: Efficiency and Stock Supply Chain Review,” and its (possibly major) implications for UK libraries. Lorcan Dempsey also has comments.
Mary Minow at LibraryLaw Blog is looking for “suggestions on how to define ‘normal commercial exploitation’ (or other library copyright suggestions).” Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti (TeleRead) has started a series of personal opinion columns re copyright law, beginning with copyright basics.
Jenny Levine, the shifted librarian, explains why libraries that join the new ListenIllinois contract for audiobooks also need to purchase MP3 players to circulate to patrons.
The July 2005 UI Current LIS Clips has eight articles about libraries and PDAs.
LITA Blog’s Eric Morgan lists and explains the five technologies you should learn if you want to to move into a systems-related position.
Kevin Smith, the Fiddling Librarian, has a list of five things librarians should be reading to keep us relevant in our communities. From the Feel-good Librarian and BlogJunction, stories about being relevant, one patron at a time. Michael McGrorty (Library Dust) writes about how the library gave him a different understanding of history than that found in his sixth-grade schoolbooks.
Back in June, while her boss was on vacation, Hope of Hope’s little library ran a series called, “How to run a library when you don’t know how.”
Two surveys from LIS writers who are trying to fine tune their blogs to make them more useful: Library Marketing: Thinking Outside the Box and Meredith Farkas’ Information Wants To Be Free.
Follow-up: lbr points to presentation materials from the Collaborative Virtual Reference Symposium.
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on LISNews.com every Monday before noon (Central time).
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending 7 August 2005
Are you a library student? Joy Weese Moll (Wanderings of a Student Librarian) has started a series of entries about how to succeed in library school.
Discussion about OpenWorldCat starts at Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog and continues at Karen G. Schneider’s Free Range Librarian blog. Karen follows up with a question about OpenURL which Lorcan answers.
Infomancy’s Christopher Harris wonders, could you outsource a library? More.
The Flickr group photo pool, Libraries and librarians continues to grow (900+ photos as of this morning). LibraryTechtonics’ Andrea Mercado talks about the policy issues that came up when her library started posting pictures on Flickr.
Laura Crossett (lisdom) points out that the answer to, “Is Wikipedia/Google/the Internet a good source of information? is not “Yes” or “No” but rather, “A good source of information for what?” Jane at A Wandering Eyre agrees. misseli, at Confessions of a Mad Librarian, points to a Forbes magazine article about how the public library is better than Google. Stephen Abram (Stephen’s Lighthouse) also comments. Norma Bruce at LISNews.com has a story about researchers who only want to use Google.
re the news reports about Wikipedia’s plans to freeze “stable” pages, Luke Rosenberger (lbr) explains that the news reports got it wrong.
Ross Singer at Dilettante’s Ball asks, What is the role of the OPAC in the modern library? Ryan Eby at libdev wonders if there’s a way to use the OPAC to advertise related library services which mostly remain unknown to patrons.
Lisle at Biblioblatherblog responds to Thomas Mann’s “Research at Risk” article. James Jacobs at diglet says Mann missed a couple of important points.
Dave Hook, the Industrial Librarian, explains why blogs & RSS feeds will help drive open-access journal publishing. Lorcan Dempsey points to a CILIP article in which the question is asked, Is it really safe to dispose of print journals?
Steven Bell, the Kept-Up Academic Librarian, points to a USA today article about college students using RSS for up-to-date research. Ken Varnum (RSS4Lib) says his library has a new guide to using RSS for research alerts. misc.information points to links about RSS and blogging within the Academic/Research/Scientific community. Dave Mattson, of the Ten Thousand Year Blog, points to a list of Things You Can Do With RSS (“Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server”).
Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rant) wonders, Is blogging for personal information management useful for all professions and personality types or just for writers and information workers?
Singapore’s Rambling Librarian had an entertaining post about the Desperate Chinese Romance Housewives phenomenon, but replaced it with a less colorful version. He then posted some thoughts about blogging: “What would you do if someone took issue with your blog post and think you should take it down?” Angel, the Gypsy Librarian, points to a JMLA editorial about blogging. T. Scott Plutchak, who wrote the editorial, responds.
Because of domain problems, explodedlibrary.info can be found temporarily at its original URL. explodedlibrary is expected back at its regular address on Friday.
Jessamyn (librarian.net) writes about what she does at work all day.
schwagbag’s Sherri Vokey finds the stats for their first two months of IM reference encouraging. Chad Boeninger, the Library Voice, asks, Should we identify ourselves to our IM patrons with our real names?
Andrew Gray was looking through a very old library journal and came across this agreement made in 1632 between Aberdeen Town Council and Robert Downie, who was at the time librarian of Marischal College, part of the University of Aberdeen. (It helps to read the language note at the bottom of the post first.)
Carnival of the Infosciences #1 is online.
Tony Stevens and Ken Chad at panlibus discuss the DCMS/MLA report, “Public Libraries: Efficiency and Stock Supply Chain Review,” and its (possibly major) implications for UK libraries. Lorcan Dempsey also has comments.
Mary Minow at LibraryLaw Blog is looking for “suggestions on how to define ‘normal commercial exploitation’ (or other library copyright suggestions).” Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti (TeleRead) has started a series of personal opinion columns re copyright law, beginning with copyright basics.
Jenny Levine, the shifted librarian, explains why libraries that join the new ListenIllinois contract for audiobooks also need to purchase MP3 players to circulate to patrons.
The July 2005 UI Current LIS Clips has eight articles about libraries and PDAs.
LITA Blog’s Eric Morgan lists and explains the five technologies you should learn if you want to to move into a systems-related position.
Kevin Smith, the Fiddling Librarian, has a list of five things librarians should be reading to keep us relevant in our communities. From the Feel-good Librarian and BlogJunction, stories about being relevant, one patron at a time. Michael McGrorty (Library Dust) writes about how the library gave him a different understanding of history than that found in his sixth-grade schoolbooks.
Back in June, while her boss was on vacation, Hope of Hope’s little library ran a series called, “How to run a library when you don’t know how.”
Two surveys from LIS writers who are trying to fine tune their blogs to make them more useful: Library Marketing: Thinking Outside the Box and Meredith Farkas’ Information Wants To Be Free.
Follow-up: lbr points to presentation materials from the Collaborative Virtual Reference Symposium.
………………..
This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on LISNews.com every Monday before noon (Central time).
5 things we should be reading
“Kevin Smith, the Fiddling Librarian, has a list of five things librarians should be reading to keep us relevant in our communities.”
I realize he’s trying to be funny but he kind of undercuts his defense against Gorman when the second thing he mentions if tv and the last thing is stop signs. He makes a good point about journals and such but none of what he says applies to “sustained reading of complex text” except maybe novels and that’s not really enough.