Archive for May, 2007

eight things

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Having missed out on the five things meme, I’m picking up on the eight things one. Blame it all on Josh, who tagged me.

1. On Friday I found both my father’s and my grandfather’s World War II military papers–a registration card for my grandfather, and the enrollment data for my father–via Ancestry.com, which […]

tag cloud mania

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

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) […]

graduation pictures

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

graduation pictures

Originally uploaded by Meeteetse Branch Library.

In the year or so that I have been at the Meeteetse Branch Library, we have done a lot of good things. We’ve had summer reading programs for both kids and grown-ups. We’ve had authors visit. […]

mensch for hire

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Because most people are more timely bloggers than I am, and because I occupy a small corner of the ecosystem, I don’t expect anyone reading this in libraryland doesn’t already know that Walt Crawford got the boot from OCLC and is available for hire. 
I do wonder if there isn’t some weird underhanded Walt Crawford […]

research library, rural library: a trip to yellowstone

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Thanks to Jessi at the Yellowstone Research Library for a few corrections and updates!
There are a lot of great things about being a librarian in Wyoming. (To begin with, you get to live in Wyoming, although I recognize this is not everyone’s idea of a Great Thing.) You get to be part of […]

let my audio go!

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Amazon plans to roll out DRM-free music later this year.  Publishers Lunch wonders if DRM-free audio books can be far behind (sorry, no link for the story, which is in an e-mail newsletter from Publishers Marketplace–I highly recommend it though–the free version, which I get, is still full of fascinating publishing news).  Librarians like me […]

conference blog, with knitting lounge and open bar (though not together)

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

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.

with a little help from my friends

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Between the Library Society of the World and Michelle’s post today and the general DIY awesomeness of the biblioblogosphere, I’ve been getting a distinct “we could get a barn and put on a show!” kind of a feeling, albeit mostly about the virtual world. And that in turn has made me think it’s about […]