A few weeks ago, I had an unexpected tour of the Sporting News Research Center in St. Louis, Missouri, courtesy of Jim Meier.
As you might imagine, The Sporting News is a magazine focusing on some sports, like baseball, basketball, football, NASCAR, and hockey. Founded in 1886, it covered sports like baseball, cycling, wrestling, and boxing [...]
I started typing this while sitting in Harvard Yard, since we had another fire drill that meant my office had to evaucate the building.
My coworkers laugh at me because I usually grab my desktop computer and at least one other laptop on my way out. My office doesn’t do desktop data backups and we have [...]
Jack Shafer discusses the limitations of the electronic versions of some popular newspapers: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He makes it sound like they cram too much material in the space they have. He does take a moment to discuss the advantages of the downloadable e-versions.
Seen on LIS News
Garrett points to this article about RSS that’s great for someone who’s just starting out or for someone who wants to learn a little bit about different aggregators. J.D. Lasica also mentions some features an ideal aggregator would have and includes a list of popular feeds.
NPR interviewed librarian and action figure model Nancy Pearl to learn about books about politics she thinks people should read.
I recently witnessed Nancy’s ability to recommend books. She’s very good at it.
From LIS News
A coworker pointed me to this Boston Globe article about the Democratic National Convention organizers warming up to the idea of allowing bloggers to have press access. The article discusses the intersection between bloggers and big media outlets a little bit. It also mentions that some bloggers, like Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo [...]
A former chief information officer who’s about to go back on the job market wonders whether he could leverage Orkut to get a job as a CIO or other similar position. I can’t advise him in this respect. I’m under the impression most of the people he’d be potentially dealing with aren’t involved in online [...]
This Unshelved strip made me laugh out loud. I remember reading some studies in grad school about the importance of positive interactions during the reference interview. (That’s library jargon for when someone asks a librarian for assistance and the librarian figures out what the person needs and responds.) Even if a librarian couldn’t help someone [...]