This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending September 10, 2006
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Looking for blogs to read? Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It) has a round-up of library-related Blog Day 2006 entries.
Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rant) explains how Google Books is helpful. Jill Hurst-Wahl (Digitization 101) points out that users outside the U.S. have trouble accessing public domain works in Google Books. Alane (It’s all good) wonders about completeness and quality in the various book digitization projects.
Rochelle (Tinfoil + Raccoon) asks, can you sum up your mission in 17 syllables? David Dodd (Librarian in Tie-Dye) has posted the text of his Unitarian sermon about libraries, “An Evergreen Tree of Diabolical Knowledge.”
Rachel Singer Gordon (Liminal Librarian) is running a survey about librarian speaking fees.
Lorcan Dempsey asks, What is the catalog? Comments from Overdue Ideas. Richard Wallis (Panlibus) describes Google Image Labeler as “addictive cataloguing by the masses.”
Christopher Harris (Infomancy) thinks about user-centered design and how libraries label databases.
The Rambling Librarian has some thoughts on managing a library.
An analogy, from Ross Singer (Dilettante’s Ball): The Librarian and the Travel Agent.
Christopher Harris (Infomancy) reports on the opening of Philadelphia’s library-less School of the Future. Also, libraries as an experience to be endured.
Follow-up: Jenny Levine (Shifted Librarian) responds to Jessamyn’s post about virtual reference services.
CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS
How to [Group-]Blog a Conference, from Joss Hallett (hyku).
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday before noon (Central time). [Feeds]
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending September 10, 2006
……….
Looking for blogs to read? Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It) has a round-up of library-related Blog Day 2006 entries.
Christina Pikas (Christina’s LIS Rant) explains how Google Books is helpful. Jill Hurst-Wahl (Digitization 101) points out that users outside the U.S. have trouble accessing public domain works in Google Books. Alane (It’s all good) wonders about completeness and quality in the various book digitization projects.
Rochelle (Tinfoil + Raccoon) asks, can you sum up your mission in 17 syllables? David Dodd (Librarian in Tie-Dye) has posted the text of his Unitarian sermon about libraries, “An Evergreen Tree of Diabolical Knowledge.”
Rachel Singer Gordon (Liminal Librarian) is running a survey about librarian speaking fees.
Lorcan Dempsey asks, What is the catalog? Comments from Overdue Ideas. Richard Wallis (Panlibus) describes Google Image Labeler as “addictive cataloguing by the masses.”
Christopher Harris (Infomancy) thinks about user-centered design and how libraries label databases.
The Rambling Librarian has some thoughts on managing a library.
An analogy, from Ross Singer (Dilettante’s Ball): The Librarian and the Travel Agent.
Christopher Harris (Infomancy) reports on the opening of Philadelphia’s library-less School of the Future. Also, libraries as an experience to be endured.
Follow-up: Jenny Levine (Shifted Librarian) responds to Jessamyn’s post about virtual reference services.
CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS
How to [Group-]Blog a Conference, from Joss Hallett (hyku).
………………..
This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday before noon (Central time). [Feeds]
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