Bob Stepno reminded me of his piece explaining RSS feeds from a few months back. At first, I was shocked that he didn’t mention my terrific intro to RSS article everyone’s sick of reading about, but then I noticed he constructed the page before that was published. I like his wine and fish metaphor: "Q: [...]
Miami Herald journalist Margaria Fichtner makes what William Walker, University of Miami University Librarian, does in his job sound incredibly exciting. The Otto G. Richter Library is supposedly so popular, the students call it Club Richter and some hang out there until 1 am. One of the collection rooms even has rocking chairs. He shares [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2004 Almanac came out earlier this week. It contains lots of nifty data about American institutions of higher learning and college students. For example, it’s common knowledge that Harvard University has the largest endowment, though Yale is trying hard to catch up. It’s not as commonly known that it does [...]
and all the things she could do with the many she’s received. I recently heard a colleague who’s been on the market for a while mention an e-mail she got thanking her for letting them review her credentials, but informing her the position was no longer available. “Thank you for giving us the opportunity to [...]
Our server administrators plan to do some maintenance at 3 am EST this morning, 8/24, for about an hour that requires the server to come offline. Addendum 10:22 am: It looks like the server’s back up okay this morning. I have a few hits between 3 and 4 am in the Hourly Hits, so it [...]
Knowing my luck, by the time you click this lick, what’s in my aggregator from NewsliBlog’s Atom feed will have rolled off. That doesn’t matter. What does matter is that the Harvard server was tweaked over the weekend so our aggregators should now be able to read Atom feeds.
This month’s Information Outlook, the magazine of the Special Libraries Association, includes an interview with Dialog’s CEO, Roy Martin. Dialog is one of the leading database providers for special libraries and has been in the business longer than many of its competitors. Martin addresses the growth of information and the increasing need for people with [...]
National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Saturday covered summer reading from mandatory school assignments to children who love to read. Several avid readers mentioned not being able to put good books down. I hoped to have more time to read this summer. Certain activities slow down in the summer, but unfortunately, there was no rest for [...]
If you pay the fees to register for my blog talk in Madison, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, September 15, and get there around 6 pm, you’ll get free dinner. (Okay, well, it isn’t exactly free food because you have to pay to register for the meeting, but I’m trying to encourage people to come to this [...]