Archive for January, 2006

westward ho!

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

The appropriate pieces of paper have arrived, the Is dotted and Ts crossed, and thus I can now announce my big and very exciting news:
Starting March 6, I will be the Branch Manager of the Meeteetse Library in the Park County Library System in Wyoming.
I was out west the weekend before last for an interview, […]

Library Education Forum: of, by, and for the people

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

You have probably read about this elsewhere, but if not, let me announce (and if so, let me reiterate) the Library Education Forum, which will be held on March 11 in New York City. The good folks from the NYC collective of Radical Reference are organizing the shindig, and library students, prospective library students, […]

organization: or why I am not a cataloger

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

This is a post I wrote by hand when my computer was off getting fixed. I didn’t get around to transcribing it until now.
Once my grandmother asked my father and her cousin how she ought to organize her books. One said “Size!” and the other said “Color!” and, well, it went downhill […]

on the move: lis.dom, carnivals, and possibly me

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Lots of things are happening, and these are just a few of them:

First (though not exactly foremost), I’m happy to announce that lis.dom is bidding farewell to Blogger and moving to my web site and to WordPress! With some much-appreciated help from my friend Mitchell, lis.dom will henceforth be residing at http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom. [Feeds: […]

testing. . .

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

nothing of substance here. . . just making sure things are working properly. . . .

Read Roger!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Did you know that Roger Sutton (editor of The Horn Book) has a blog?
We children’s lit people are not so far behind the times after all. (And if you like children’s literature–as I hope you do–and are a reader of blogs–as I assume you are if you are reading this–I hope you’re reading Your […]

communities, suburban and virtual, then and now

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Rick, my blogosphere friend and neighboring librarian (I live one suburb over from the Thomas Ford Memorial Library) has a wonderful post about reading through old local newspapers on microfilm.
I sometimes hear that people today feel a little threatened by the amount of personal information on the Internet. In 1956 there was a tremendous amount […]

carnival #19

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Hear ye, hear ye (how I love to use archaic language in a digital environment): the first Carnival of the Infosciences (#19!) of 2006 is up and running over at Wanderings of a Student Librarian.
Among its many gems are some obvious to some but good nonetheless interview tips from Grumpator. Heidi Dolamore, who writes […]

low tech library 2.0: the picture

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

suggestions
Originally uploaded by newrambler.
See the entry below for more. . . the picture upload from Blogger doesn’t seem to have worked, at least not from what I can see. Apologies if it worked in your browser and you’re getting this twice.

low tech library 2.0

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Michael Stephens reiterates that library 2.0 is more than technology, to which, I imagine, some of us are saying, “Well, thank goodness!” Not all of us have us have huge budgets to send people to conferences or the space/time/staff support/equipment to hold DDR nights or coworkers who are hip to (or interested in being […]