My local library has a terrific and somewhat tongue-in-cheek Mother’s Day display. It has a blurb about the importance of mothers in our lives—even if the female biological parent has been absent, she still has some kind of influence on us—and a variety of library material about mothers and our relationship to them. There was [...]
Karen Schneider of the Free Range Librarian blog http://freerangelibrarian.com/
has a very good review of David Weinberger’s Everything is miscellaneous book at ALA’s TechSource blog
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/05/weinbergers-well-ordered-miscellany.html
Sara Houghton-Jan of the LibrarianInBlack library blog has a posting about being mentioned in the book:
http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/05/ive_been_quoted.html
posted by Rich
The New England Library Association’s Information Technology Section (ITS) has a program called “Everything you always wanted to know about Open Source” Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at the Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston Mass. Elizabeth Thomsen of the North of Boston Library Exchange will do the opening session. Joshua Ferraro of Liblime [...]
Gadgets like camera phones are changing how people do all sorts of tasks, from blogging to catching criminals to showing friends that cute someone noticed on the street. The January 6 Weekend America asks the camera phone inventor, Philippe Kahn, why he felt the need to create the gadget while his wife gave birth and [...]
Jessamyn West of the Librarian.net blog has a new posting on more info on Ubuntu Linux, including links even to a wiki!
http://www.librarian.net/stax/2043/ubunutu-follow-up-explanations-and-links/
Michael Sauers of the Travelin’ Librarian blog http://www.travelinlibrarian.info
talks about using Wine, an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.
http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/2006/09/html-kit-in-ubuntu.html
Dell is offering Ubuntu Linux [...]
Here’s a bit of humor for Friday from, er, an anonymous friend.
“It won’t matter. I’ve got Wikipedia.”
BoingBoing links to a video Jessamyn West made about installing Ubuntu Linux on some of her library’s computers. If the library gets a Mac, she thinks it will be the first library in Vermont to offer three operating systems. Her post has more information about Ubuntu and using it in libraries.
This post is dedicated to [...]
Friends:Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services is a weblog dealing with the use of social networking sites by library programs and services.
from the ResourceShelf
Free Pint is surveying folks to gauge interest in what we want them to cover about the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. To chime in, complete the survey.
conference coverage in the style of Web 2.0~
On the ResourceShelf, I noticed this bit about Yahoo! shutting down Yahoo! Photos and encouraging its users to move to flickr.