http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom Laura Crossett on the LIS domain Thu, 08 May 2008 02:59:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been trying to remember lately how I first figured out RSS and when I got myself set up with a Bloglines account. I remember that Morgan told me there were a lot of great radical librarian bloggers during the summer of 2003, but since that was before I even ... http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/218 I have been very tired and hence am very behind and thus am going to give you this fabulous link roundup instead of an actual post. Radical Reference did a Library of Congress Subject Heading Suggestion Blog-a-thon last week that I managed to miss. If you did, too, you can ... http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/217 Meredith Farkas says such nice things about me that I've had to spend the better part of the last few days keeping myself from repeating them, ad nauseum, to everyone I know. (I feel rather like the other lion at the end of The Lion, The Witch, and the ... http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/216 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 ... http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/215 Black Swan Green by David Mitchell -- I read this on the recommendation of Steve Lawson, who had mentioned it being a good book and a dead-on portrait of being a kid in the early 1980s. I didn't end up identifying so much with the protagonist, who is about ... http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/214 From the Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List for February 27, 2008: 150 War on Terrorism, 2001- [sp2001000148] * 680 Here are entered works on the events, metaphorically referred to as a "war," consisting of military operations, diplomatic activities, and other counterterrorist measures undertaken ... http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/213 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 ... http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/212 There are things I don't really like about the American Library Association, but the rest of the biblioblogosphere pretty much has that topic covered. But there are some things I do like, and one of my favorites is ALA Policy 61, the "Poor People's Policy," which states The American Library ... http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/211 After Jenna and Rochelle. . . It once took a friend and me three or four different tries to watch a movie.  First his DVD player got busted.  Then we tried to use the set up  our friends had at the coffee shop, but there were way too many remotes.  Then ... http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/210 The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart -- A great puzzle-solving book in which kids have to figure out how to get along in order to save the world. R Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt -- I loved this book when I was a kid, and I got ... http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/207