On Newslib, someone pointed out that the Winter 2006 (vol. 27, no. 1) Newspaper Research Journal includes an article by Howard Bossen, Lucinda D. Davenport and Quint Randle about the “… impact of digital cameras on photo procedures and archiving.”
I haven’t been able to find the article online yet.
Is it coincidence or do The Boston Globe travel writers really know many librarians from the Boston area will be traveling to Baltimore for a conference in a few weeks? Nevermind the answer: here are two articles about Baltimore in time for the Special Libraries Association 2006 Annual Conference.
A read on Baltimore: A literary trail [...]
from the event e-mail:
"David Weinberger’s Web of Ideas: ‘Messiness as a Virtue‘
Wednesday, May 3, 6 pm
Berkman Conference Room
1587 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
It’s been our assumption in our Western tradition that a well-organized system is a neat system with a minimum of categories, lines and exceptions. But that assumption about systems of ideas seems [...]
This description of actions Verizon took against a Boston area ISP that resulted in thousands of people losing their dial-up access is kind of scary. It’s a good idea to know your Internet provider, the intrastructure, if the ISP plays well with others, etc., etc.
I still have dial-up access at home. I believe Verizon owns [...]
I’m participating in the talk with Berkman Fellow David Isenberg about net neutrality. It’s being Webcast until about 1:30 pm ET: http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s…. Please join us. We’re also on IRC on the berkman channel on freenode.net. Berkman has posted the audio of the talk and the slides. (Note added at 6:45 p.)
One of my concerns about this whole [...]
Well, 13 is my lucky number …
Here are three from the latest installment of the Librarians’ Index to the Internet’s New This Week.
ISBNs, International Standard Book Numbers—a unique identifier for books—is moving to 13 digits instead of ten. isbn.org has more information and a conversion tool.
LibraryThing, a way for people to catalog their own collections, [...]
Garrett had two bits recently about wikis and scientists. In one, he mentions OpenWetWare, “… an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering” with participating groups from a variety of college and university labs. Another refers to a Nature article. [...]