Library student Cynthia Wilson is looking for all kinds of librarians to photograph to show the variety of people working in our profession as a way to counter the stereotypes. Her contact information is on the site I am a librarian. Spotted on LIS News
Back in early February, I wrote about Shimon’s scheme of commenting on a Frassle blog starting a new blog in Frassle. Well, he has rethought how Frassle does comments and plans to revamp the system. I think his new plan for the system is probably a good idea. I wouldn’t say I was disappointed to [...]
Shimon builds on Cesar Brea’s post about shareable calendars and RSS feeds. Though they both focus on the social application of calendars, using RSS and Event Share Framework (EFS), it has applications in other areas, too. Journalists, for example, often have to deal with calendars. Imagine a government reporter getting the mayor’s calendar of public [...]
“That librarian looks like she just walked out of a Norman Rockwell painting showing a librarian.” While some of you would gasp at this description in horror, I can only wonder what American painter Norman Rockwell’s concept of a librarian would be. I can’t remember any artwork I’ve seen attributed to him specifically depicting a [...]
Congratulations to the four amazing people who won the Special Libraries Association News Division awards this year. John Cronin of the Boston Herald will get kwapilled at the Awards Banquet in June. The Kwapil Award is the division’s highest honor, recognizing someone who has made outstanding contributions to the News Division and the field during [...]
The ResourceShelf points to this video presentation about rethinking reference services hosted by OCLC. It sounds interesting, especially since someone from 24/7 Reference, a type of virtual reference service, is on the panel, but I can’t get it to work on my computer. I’m not sure what kind of software it requires that I don’t [...]
A week ago, Shimon shared some thoughts on what qualities his ideal library might have. I finished a response to his post last night. … Addendum 3/24: I hope Shimon doesn’t think he’s getting off this easily. Hey Shimon, what do you think about my response? Anyone else want to chime in–>make this a discussion/conversation [...]
Yeah, yeah, yeah Google’s great, whatever. I think some of the things their competitors are doing are much more interesting, more key to the future of search. How about being able to search the content of your e-mails and other files, not just file names (like the new Lycos toolbar described on the ResourceShelf)? A [...]
Sandra, a biotech librarian, is part of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s team running the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 19. Go, Sandra, go! (Who says librarians can’t be athletic?)
One of my blog readers asked about Jessamyn West’s experience with Google Answers after reading she will probably be at the BloggerCon session I’m helping to organize. She wrote about it in Searcher magazine’s January 2003 and October 2002 issues. (I’ve gotten into a few conversations about Google Answers in this space.) She, of course, [...]
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