Patrick Curl is making a summer roadtrip that makes me jealous: 50 bloggers in 50 states. If Patrick is going to Alaska, too, I wonder if he’s going to keep true to the roadtrip and drive there and back. I love roadtrips. Two of my life’s goals are to go to all 50 states (I [...]
With a title like that, I can only think what Jonathan Zittrain wrote in his book must be grim because otherwise, we wouldn’t want to stop it. One of the first things Zittrain said after taking the mic is that he used to title things poorly. I think that was in reference to something else, [...]
The early bird registration for the Mass Library Association Annual Conference must be postmarked by today, April 18, 2008! You can register online. For more info: http://www.masslib.org/conference/2008Conference/ Posted by Rich
“[T]he Oxford English Dictionary, arguably the greatest reference work in the English language…found its origins in a wiki model, whereby scholars put out the word to English speakers far and wide that they would welcome hard evidence of the earliest appearances of English words.” Garrett pointed me to a piece in The Chronicle of Higher [...]
Don’t forget the Vormelker-Thomas SLA Student Stipend Deadline is Today (4/16)!
Liane Hansen of National Public Radio is filing audio postcards from a trip to Egypt. On Sunday, she gave us a picture of the library at Alexandria. Is it just a coincidence that she’s telling us about Egypt now when Wikimania will be there in July?
Did you read last Sunday’s comic Opus where Opus has a nightmare about a library book he didn’t return? It made me think of v and her dislike of stories about books long overdue because Opus’ dream begins with his third grade librarian showing up to tell him he still hasn’t returned Green Eggs and [...]
Hey LIS graduate students and recent grads interested in news librarianship: want $1500 to help fund your first trip to the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference? Members of the Vormelker-Thomas Student Stipend Award Committee eagerly await your applications! Complete application instructions are at: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/about/vormelker2008.htm. Selection Criteria: Applicants must be members of the Special Libraries Association [...]
The Massachusetts Library Association Annual Conference is being held on May 6-9, 2008 at Sea Crest Resort and Conference Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts (Cape Cod): A partial list of speakers: * Nancy Pearl * David Lee King * Aaron Schmidt * Authors: Linda Barnes, Mameve Medwed, Katherine Hall Page, Elizabeth Haydon, Tracy Brown * Marshall [...]
And now for something completely different … It’s been a while since I’ve just blogged something for the sake of being an on-the-spot blogger. Tonight’s blog group is visiting Pecha Kucha Night Boston #4, hosted by group member Brett Stilwell. The idea is that we geeky types will live blog, Twitter, photograph, film, and otherwise [...]
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