This Week in LibraryBlogLand (September 4, 2006)

This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending September 3, 2006

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Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack) comments re David Lee King’s Five Types of Content on a Library Website. Gunter Waibel (hangingtogether.org) points to a post about the impact that a new online collection database has had on the Powerhouse Museum’s (Sydney, Aust.) website stats.

Jessamyn West (librarian.net) has many thoughts about WorldCat. Eric Morgan (LITA Blog) writes about building the next generation library catalog.

dcornwall (Free Government Info) points out that not everybody has (or wants) online access to government information: “The nearly 30% of Americans who don’t have any type of Internet access can now be considered hardcore Internet non-adopters. Barbara Fister (Librarians at the Gate) notes how ironic it is that while libraries are becoming essential for two-way communication with government, there’s legislation in the works that is designed to turn off social networking sites in libraries.

Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack) agrees with Laurie the Librarian re the importance of getting library cards to remote users (for different definitions of “remote user”). More thoughts from Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It).

Jessamyn (librarian.net) tried out a 24/7 reference service as a patron.

Jill Hurst-Wahl (Digitization 101) has been thinking about the California Digital Library/Google agreement. She also has some thoughts about digitization, e-books, derivative works, and public domain.

Steve Lawson (See Also…) on digitizing and discarding journals and the value of browsing. Lazygal (Killin’ time being lazy) has more on serendipity and browsing.

Steve Lawson (See Also…) has some thoughts about library signs. Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It) has more.

Anne (I Had an Idea This Morning), whose library doesn’t seem to delete inactive cards, got a debt-collection notice from the library she hasn’t been to in a decade for a book that was checked out a few months ago.

Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) comments re Library Journal’s Sept. 1 Library 2.0 article.

Joy Weese Moll (Wanderings of a Student Librarian) follows up on Jane’s post about libraries and student printing.

Christopher Harris (Infomancy) asks, should libraries and librarians be creating and publishing?

Rick Roche (ricklibrarian) asks, what’s on your own list of best books ever?

Walt Crawford’s September 2006 issue of Cites & Insights is out.

Epidemic of collapsing shelves?

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending September 3, 2006

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Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack) comments re David Lee King’s Five Types of Content on a Library Website. Gunter Waibel (hangingtogether.org) points to a post about the impact that a new online collection database has had on the Powerhouse Museum’s (Sydney, Aust.) website stats.

Jessamyn West (librarian.net) has many thoughts about WorldCat. Eric Morgan (LITA Blog) writes about building the next generation library catalog.

dcornwall (Free Government Info) points out that not everybody has (or wants) online access to government information: “The nearly 30% of Americans who don’t have any type of Internet access can now be considered hardcore Internet non-adopters. Barbara Fister (Librarians at the Gate) notes how ironic it is that while libraries are becoming essential for two-way communication with government, there’s legislation in the works that is designed to turn off social networking sites in libraries.

Sarah Houghton-Jan (LibrarianInBlack) agrees with Laurie the Librarian re the importance of getting library cards to remote users (for different definitions of “remote user”). More thoughts from Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It).

Jessamyn (librarian.net) tried out a 24/7 reference service as a patron.

Jill Hurst-Wahl (Digitization 101) has been thinking about the California Digital Library/Google agreement. She also has some thoughts about digitization, e-books, derivative works, and public domain.

Steve Lawson (See Also…) on digitizing and discarding journals and the value of browsing. Lazygal (Killin’ time being lazy) has more on serendipity and browsing.

Steve Lawson (See Also…) has some thoughts about library signs. Jennifer Macaulay (Life as I Know It) has more.

Anne (I Had an Idea This Morning), whose library doesn’t seem to delete inactive cards, got a debt-collection notice from the library she hasn’t been to in a decade for a book that was checked out a few months ago.

Nicole C. Engard (What I Learned Today) comments re Library Journal’s Sept. 1 Library 2.0 article.

Joy Weese Moll (Wanderings of a Student Librarian) follows up on Jane’s post about libraries and student printing.

Christopher Harris (Infomancy) asks, should libraries and librarians be creating and publishing?

Rick Roche (ricklibrarian) asks, what’s on your own list of best books ever?

Walt Crawford’s September 2006 issue of Cites & Insights is out.

Epidemic of collapsing shelves?

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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday before noon (Central time). [Feeds]