In two weeks, I’ll be a guest speaker in a journalism class taught by a coworker. The presentation I gave last year is still on my Web site. (Please don’t laugh too hard.) I introduce the budding journalists to a variety of sources they can use for their articles, like people, archives, business sources, public [...]
I sent the News Library News editor my RSS feed article today. Hopefully, someone will learn something useful from it when it is published in a few weeks. I’ll post something here when it is available because I think at least one of my blog readers might want to read it. Thanks to those of [...]
Addendum 6/29/04: which used to read I’m j Baumgart and I approved this message in honor of the campaign commercials on television.
Library Cat, or L. C., attacked a man’s assistance dog, Kimba, in 2000. The man is now suing the city for disability discrimination because he thinks the city “interfered with his admittance to and enjoyment of the library” and took steps to deny his right to bring Kimba into the library. L. C. had attacked [...]
Jessamyn focuses on the design of sites and how they appear in her aggregator. She can read some sites easier in her aggregator, but she knows she’s missing important design elements on some sites, too. She thinks there’s a shift happening as people decide to design their site for better syndication instead of site [...]
He’s developed a funky annotation system for what he’s reading so that he doesn’t write in books. (And all this time, I just figured he took notes on his blog.)
Garrett types about some features in this Friday’s Chronicle of Higher Education about open access journals and publishing. There will be an online colloquy on Thursday at 1 pm exploring the issue.
The dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, John M. Unsworth, has a piece in this Friday’s Chronicle of Higher Education about the open source, open access, etc., movement at institutions of higher learning. He gives a history of the Internet, talks about initiatives at [...]
For the first time, a court has declared part of the USA PATRIOT Act unconstitutional. A Los Angeles federal judge decided that the part of the act barring giving “expert advice and assistance” to foreign terrorist groups is too vague.
On June 30, ten employees of the Harvard College Library system, one of the systems of libraries at Harvard University, will lose their jobs and 8.5 vacant positions will be closed. Workers were notified Monday of the layoffs.
“Half of our budget is made up of staff compensation. It was almost impossible for us to move [...]