This is a huge digression from my normally work-related blog. I apologize to those of you who may be horribly offended by it. I think soliciting for money on a blog is tacky, but I’m doing it anyway. It’s totally voluntary to give and I’ll have no idea who’s giving money and who isn’t. I [...]
This item from The Chronicle of Higher Education, which restricts access to subscribers only, talks about essays written for a contest sponsored by Fairleigh Dickinson University and the New Jersey Association of Colleges and Research Libraries that discussed what libraries would be like in 2012. Fairleigh Dickinson librarian James W. Marcum came up with the [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a few articles about blogging in the academic world in their June 6 issue. Today (6/4) at 1 pm EST, they will have a live colloquy about blogging in academia. A transcript of the session will be available later. As far as I know, the colloquies are freely available: [...]
A few days ago, I read on my friend Vernica’s blog that she had decided to stop blogging. I was so crushed, I couldn’t think of anything to say on my blog about it. Luckily for us, she has changed her mind. I really enjoy checking out her blog. She often has some very interesting [...]
Google and Yahoo are both pulling my homepage into their search results for things related to Darby Conley. But again, they don’t recognize the permalinks. It’s interesting to me that search engines don’t seem to go deeper into the site. They could also use the URL based on the date of the posting, at least [...]
First of all, I don’t read the Harvard Review. It comes to this office and since I’m the librarian, most periodicals that come to the office that don’t otherwise have a subscriber or home here end up in my mailbox for me to put on the shelf of periodicals in the hallway. I accidentally skimmed [...]
The Federal Communications Commission voted to relax media ownership limits today. Here’s an article, a list of major media companies and their holdings, and some detailed information about the changes from Reuters. What does this mean for us? It means that more of the media can be owned and controlled by fewer people and businesses. [...]