I probably don’t need to repeat how much I love the radio. Weekend America is among my favorite radio shows. I think I started listening to it right when one of my local public radio stations began carrying it a few years ago. They replaced their broadcast of a great standard and I decided to [...]
The Special Libraries Association’s special discount of $45 off early bird registration for regular members to register for the Annual Conference (June 13-18 in Washington, DC) is good through Saturday, January 31.
It’s the lawsuit for which some members of the copyright law world have been waiting: how much text in links on news sites is too much? GateHouse Media, Inc., is suing The New York Times Co. to find out. Since many news sites, including aggregators like Yahoo! and Google News, link to news stories on [...]
James Chartrand of Copyblogging.com wrote an interesting post called The Winnie the Pooh Guide to Blogging: “Sometimes, expert advice comes from where you least expect it. Winnie the Pooh himself will tell you he is a “bear of little brain,” but he also has an uncommon, clear-eyed wisdom. You may have heard of The Tao of [...]
The January 22 Guardian has an interesting article called “Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine: Finding a book at your local library should just involve a simple web search. But thanks to a US cataloguing site, that is far from the case”: Despite the internet’s origins as an academic network, [...]
ALA has a wonderful site for libraries called “Advocating in a Tough Economy Toolkit”: Contents: Introduction I. Talking Points II. Making the Case III. Outreach to Patrons and the Public IV. Talking to the Media V. Working with Government Officials and Legislators VI. Staging a Rally VII. Library Checklist Contacts Resources For the whole toolkit: [...]
Associated Press reports that Google is ending its newspaper ad program on Feb 28, 2009: “Emboldened by its online success, Google set out in November 2006 to help newspapers that have seen their revenue evaporate as more advertisers shifted their spending to the Internet to connect with the Web’s growing audience. Under the program, potential [...]
The Jan 15 Wall Street Journal has an article on the increased use of public libraries called “Folks Are Flocking to the Library, a Cozy Place to Look for a Job: Computers and Wi-Fi Are Free, But Staffs Are Stressed by Crowds, Cutbacks”: “TRACY, Calif. — The financial crisis has caused a lot of withdrawals [...]
“The fifth Ignite Boston will be Thursday, February 12, from 5pm to 9pm at The Hooley House in the Faneuil Hall area of Boston. There is no cover charge or any sort of fee. The event is free as in ‘Free Beer’.” “Since there is limited space at the Hooley House, you must RSVP here [...]
Like many other companies these days, One Laptop Per Child decreased the size of its workforce. Yes, some of the folks I know from there are no longer employed. It’s not appropriate for me to announce who that is in this space, so I’m not going to do that. If you’re hiring tech people, you [...]