Beautiful, isn’t it?
We talked about arranging books by color in cataloging class, but not as something serious. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had someone come up to me to ask about a book and describe it by color or some other physical attribute. Why not organize based on that principal? (more on [...]
But I am still not~
Thanks, JB!
Addendum 9/18: I should note that I do not check comments on incarnations of this weblog in other systems, like this version in LJ.
A colleague in New Zealand shared the URL for this New York Times article on a solo librarian discussion list.
Rumor has it ASIST is looking into starting a special interest group (SIG) on blogs, wikis, and podcasting.
w00t!
The speech recognition software ViaVoice arrived today. I finished the quick tutorial a little while ago. Several people recommend completing all of the tutorials, which will take hours. I can tell from the quick tutorial I really need to go through the others. Even after going through the tutorial, which took twice as long as [...]
Jim Meier recommends reading this Marc Glaser piece exploring electronic archives as historical records of news publications and what happens when articles are removed from the archives for various reasons.
Just after joking around with a coworker about my wrist problems and the limitations I’m facing because of the injuries, I received this fortune in a fortune cookie:
"Don’t wait for others to open the right doors for you."
I think it’s hilarious
One of this blog’s readers pointed me to this USA Today article about people getting fired for blogging. It gives an update on Mark Jen, whom Google fired for blogging, as well as backgrounding the issue.
My SLA 2005 Blogger ribbon hangs beneath my speaker ribbon. Having the ribbons was a great idea because it let us see who was blogging the conference on the official SLA 2005 Conference weblog, which will continue to go indefinitely.