I’ve been watching Computers in Libraries (and Internet Librarian) from afar for three years now, starting with the OPML file Steve put together for CiL in 2006. I’ve watched the conference tags make it into Flickr’s hot tags list every year, and I’ve seen hundreds of sea lion photos from Monterey. I’ve read […]
I realized earlier today that although I mentioned it in passing on my other blog (which is read by about three people–what the world needs now is not another RSS feed, but I try not to let that stop me), I haven’t actually gotten around to talking about it in this rather more visited, and […]
My friend Felicia is awfully funny. She also takes beautiful photos. And now, I find, she’s been blogging for the SUNYLA 2007 Conference blog. If you’re going, check it out. I may be biased, but I think it’s a cut above the usual look-our-conference-must-be-cool-because-we-have-a-blog type conference blogs.
Last night I went to the Bloggers Bash/Reception for Gulf Coast librarians hosted by Leslie Burger. Over the past year, blogger gatherings have been among the most vibrant and memorable (and fun) parts of conferences. Blogger gatherings are where you get to meet your imaginary friends, talk shop with people who speak your […]
The presidential election of 2004 was the first time in my life that I voted for a major party presidential candidate, and, given how things turned out, it may well be the last. (If you’re really curious about my voting patterns and reasons, you can read a little bit about them.)
That said, I still love […]
Just in case you can’t get enough grokkin’:
American Libraries’ news brief on the (somewhat disappointing) ALA reaction
Siva Vaidhyanathan’s article in Salon.com, his sugggestions for background reading and analysis, and an amusing tidbit he dug up
The Mad Librarian’s initial musings on the ruling
The Grokster ruling and DRM, from DRMblog.com
and finally, Seth Finkelstein is always worth reading, […]
Here’s part 1 of this report.
We all know that the most common question at the reference desk is “Where is the bathroom?” But what’s the most common question if you’re serving as a librarian on the street? The next presentation at Fostering Civic Engagement had the answer.
Jenna Freedman talked about Radical Reference: “serving activist communities […]