Roy Tennant says that “No one in their right mind wants to use a library catalog,” and I must, respectfully, disagree.
I agree that he’s right in some situations — if you just want to look for a mystery or a cookbook and you want go to the library to do so, then no, you probably […]
Jenny Levine imagined a library with tags. Dave Pattern made one (read more about how). A year and a half later, I had an idea.
I was playing with Director’s Station and thought, “I wonder if I could do something like that, but with search data.” I played around and made (with the assistance of tagcrowd.com) […]
If you haven’t already done so, take a few minutes of your continuous partial attention over to A biblioblogger visits the local branch library over at See Also. . . . Really. Right now. It’ll be good for you.
I’ve been thinking a great deal in the past few days about what one might call the […]
Tomorrow morning I leave, not exactly bright and early, for the WYLD Annual Meeting in Sundance, Wyoming. Sadly, this is not the site of the eponymous film festival, which is actually held in Park City, Utah, but it is near Devil’s Tower, the U.S.’s first national monument, which I probably will not have time […]