The April 14, 2008 issue of the Christian Science Monitor had a very good article on small-town libraries called “The charms of a small-town library: Modern libraries may have up-to-the-minute technology, but they lack the friendly, nostalgic feel of their older counterparts.”
“There has been talk of building a new library in our town. Some […]
The NMRLS Regional Systems Librarians group is hold their quarterly meeting at the Tyngsborough Public on Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 10 am:
“Come join us at Tyngsborough Public Library, as our host and Tyngsborough’s Director, Randy Robertshaw dishes and demos two innovative systems he is using at his library.
Randy will discuss his use of Joomla […]
Registration for the 2008 ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium being held November 2-4, 2008 at Doubletree Oak Brook hotel in Oak Brook, Illinois is now open:
http://gaming.techsource.ala.org/index.php/Main_Page
Costs:
# $300 for ALA members, TechSource subscribers (Library Technology Reports or Smart Libraries Newsletter), and students
# $350 for nonmembers
# Registration will be limited to 350 people, so […]
One of the operations guys at work today told me he heard part of Jonathan Zittrain’s interview about his new book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It on WBUR’s On Point while commuting. The show is now available on the Web and will air again on WBUR tonight.
Despite it being similar […]
I interrupt this typically topical weblog for a public service announcement:
Be very careful about e-mails from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considering taxes. I received an e-mail claiming to be from the IRS asking for my bank account information so they can deposit a refund check. The chances of it being from the IRS are […]
Library Revolution had the following interesting post about the 2008 Computers In Library talk on Newspapers and Politics:
“Libraries can learn so much by looking at what other industries have done, the challenges they have faced, and the concerns they are thinking about when building these online community interfaces.
Especially helpful here was the notion of […]
David Lee King, digital branch & services manager, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library gave a talk called Managers listen up!:
why social networking and Web 2.0 is important for your library:
Some people think change means: fresh breeze at beach or screaming at the laptop
why pay attention to change
There are best practices to handle change
Why […]
David Weinberger, author of Everything is miscellaneous and member of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society gave the Wednesday keynote talk called the Miscellaneous Knowledge, which he changed to The Smell of Knowledge at the 2008 Massachusetts Library Association conference in Falmouth, Mass.:
Bought up the fact that letters used to have the smell of […]
Instead of doing lots of little posts about upcoming conferences, I’m going to be slack and do a list in one post. I can’t remember for certain if I’ve written about these before in this space, so forgive me if I’m repeating myself.
MacCamp Boston, Saturday, May 10: A free forum dealing with Mac issues at […]
Here are some notes from James Grimmelman’s presentation Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: Old Problems and New Solutions. Grimmelman teaches at New York University’s School of Law (and puzzles with Codex).
Many sites give access to legal information, like justia.com. The state of Oregon got upset with them for posting their law and sent […]