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Clandestine Librarianism

Posted by on July 4, 2011 at 6:58 pm

As the tester to this ultimate topic as good as pointy ultimate member screen, you guess I’d prove to the ultimate devise that has popped up in Chicago, headed by folks with the small corner in the distinguished novel as good as manifest humanities communities. The Chicago Underground Library is in the plan stage, as [...]

Change

Posted by on July 4, 2011 at 6:20 pm

I have been offline as apart as RSS feeds have been involved as good as have usually left at the back of to my Bloglines critique to find 717 posts sharp for me to read. Yeah, right. we longed for Dave’s noble relapse to Circulatable with an one more block of primary rate reason as good as musings. Since [...]

No, It’s the Network Effect, Stupid

Posted by on June 3, 2008 at 6:54 pm

My former tutor as good as co-worker Andrew Pace not long ago commented on the estuary of the network as good as how he was rebuffed by the co-worker for unknowingly the reality people that have up the network as good as this is the most sigificant block of the network. we would identical to to respectfully [...]

Google influenced by librarians?

Posted by on December 17, 2007 at 7:06 pm

The New York Times has a reduced square upon a latest Google operate called Knol which sounds similar to it could have been recognised by librarians: “We hold which meaningful who wrote what will significantly assistance users have improved operate of web content,” wrote Udi Manber, clamp boss of engineering, upon a central Google blog. The [...]

I’ve been busted!

Posted by on October 17, 2007 at 7:11 pm

Unless Karen Coombs is letter about the small pick stress census interpretation tracking package that has an (until recently) undocumented dependency on Pear::DB, her blog post calls out the singular of the (numerous) failings of Libstats: Installation is challenging for the lot of people. you get the lot of questions from people who have worry [...]

Generation G

Posted by on March 15, 2007 at 7:22 pm

In the past confederate of weeks you have had sparse discussions with colleagues about the bloat of Google in the university sphere. For example, the library is endangered with the Google book scanning project. There have been pick discussions around the singular of Google’s idealisation operate offerings to universities: email. Getting out of the email [...]

Energizing warning for the conference attendees

Posted by on March 2, 2007 at 7:26 pm

Karen Schneider had an energizing notice for the contention attendees — for years now, libraries have given up ownership, control, as good as aptitude in inform management. We don’t own or set up the catalogs as good as subordinate — we franchise embarrassingly bad systems from dispassionate vendors. We don’t catalog the own understand (or [...]

Strategic (cataloging) objectives

Posted by on February 6, 2007 at 1:44 am

I have wondered newly possibly the component goals of cataloging have been during strait with the 21st century digital environment? In the digital world, we set up networks as good as networks have been for bringing together remote objects. Now it is vicious to note which it is not simply the send of files from [...]

A book is not forever

Posted by on January 6, 2007 at 2:15 am

A latest letter from the Washington Post exposes the intermittently “ruthless” operate of weeding in the open libraries. we find myself some-more as good as some-more wondering if I’m the backward man. It strikes me that there is the unequivocally genuine risk in the glibness of this comment: “We’re being unequivocally ruthless,” conspicuous Sam Clay, [...]

The next wave of disruption (it’s not us!)

Posted by on January 1, 2007 at 2:20 am

If librarians were a primary call of professionals to have their careers “threatened” by a coming of a Internet, 2006 current to be a year when reporters came underneath matching fire. you usually watched a News Hour block blue-blooded “New Media, New Year” (mp3 version) in that journalists, educators of reporters as great as report [...]