So Travis Ennis wants to know why we–we here being ML(I)S students–blog.
The snarkier part of my nature is of course tempted to say “Because I can” and/or “Because I’m good at it”–two responses often given by Famous Authors who have been asked Why They Write. I am not a Famous Author (I mean, really, […]
Just in time for the end of Banned Books Week, here’s a little something I wrote three years ago, long before I ever thought of becoming a librarian. I find I still pretty much agree with myself.
So read freely–and fight to keep our libraries free–free to speak in and free to use.
I’m glad to hear that organizations are getting their act together and jumping in to do what Geaux Library Recovery set out to do. Now they’re trying to decide what to do with the site:
One idea is to use it to apply Michael McGrorty’s endangered libraries idea. Maybe a clearinghouse of information for libraries […]
Carnival of the Infosciences #7, at Mike’s Musings.
Carnival #8 stops next week at The Industrial Librarian. Send your submissions to davehook [at] rogers [dot] com. Here are the carnival guidelines, in case you’re new to the show or want a refresher.
I have all kinds of things to say but no time of late […]
by the numbers
Originally uploaded by newrambler.
update on 9/21: URLs fixed!
I’ve now started all my fall classes, which are a slightly different line-up from when I last posted on the topic. I’m now taking
LIS 721 Library Materials for Children
LIS 745 Searching Electronic Databases
LIS 763 Readers Advisory Services
All told, that makes for 9 hours a week of […]
Surely you’ve seen this by now, but in case you haven’t:
“Our users want the world to be as simple, clean, and accessible as the Google home page itself,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a press conference held in their corporate offices. “Soon, it will be.”
And as a special bonus, all the archives of The […]
certificate
Originally uploaded by newrambler.
(Gosh, this Flickr business is fun. . . .)
I don’t normally keep track of the books I read, although I keep meaning to. I didn’t manage to this summer, either, but in case you did and feel that your summer reading efforts have gone underappreciated, may I offer you this handsome […]
Iowa City Ped Mall
Originally uploaded by newrambler.
I’m just practicing this whole blogging photos thing. This is what the downtown of my hometown looks like in late August, mid-morning. If you kept going straight down the ped mall and then swung left, you’d hit the Iowa City Public Library.
update 9/5/05 9:55 pm CST: Flickr link at the bottom is now fixed and will actually take you to pictures and not to Wired article
I am late to jump on many bandwagons, and, quite often, just simply late. Last weekend, which now seems impossibly long ago, I took a trip home (though I spend […]
I’ve never been to New Orleans, though, as I’ve written elsewhere, I feel connected to it by way of water and the imagination. The closest I come to a real connection is this:
In high school I knew a guy named Jamie Schweser. He was a senior at one of the town’s high schools when […]