Posted in Digital rights on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Eric Whitfield, a visiting blogger at Tame the Web, wrote an excellent piece on the possible demise of Digital Rights Management. I encourage you to read the comments as well.
I haven’t gotten much into mp3 music, let alone iPods, mainly because proprietary software and/or media formats bug me. It’s annoying that I can’t access the [...]
Posted in Career, Cataloging, Conferences, Studies on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | No Comments »
After taking an excellent cataloging class this spring, I’m uncertain where I’ll want to take my career. I’m wavering between reference (previous favorite) and technical services (new love). I should find an internship for the fall semester soon. This uncertainty is making is doubly hard. The choice shouldn’t really be this difficult; after all, librarianship [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 on Thursday, May 17, 2007 | No Comments »
A YouTube video relevant to my Web Design & Production class:
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.
I need to let it sink in a bit before I can form an informed opinion.
As an aside, I really need to find a new location for [...]
Posted in Gaming on Thursday, May 17, 2007 | No Comments »
A visiting blogger, Michael Westfall, in the Tame The Web blog talked about games in his school library in Chicago. At first reading I wanted to dismiss his concerns. Then I realized that I was looking at the issue from the perspective of someone whose world has not always had computer games. I actually witnessed [...]
Posted in Career on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in Cataloging, Studies on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 | No Comments »
A semi-random search lead me to Karen G. Schneider’s entry (via The Goblin in the Library) in the ALA Tech Source blog: Dear Library of Congress…
Had I seen this when I was writing about my paper on the future of cataloging this spring, it might have looked very different. (Ambiguity intended.) It’s still [...]
Posted in People, Studies on Monday, May 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m about to start my first class for this summer, on Web design. I don’t know what it’s going to be like, I don’t know the instructor. I’m curious to see what it’ll turn out to be and how it works. I wonder whether we’ll have group projects, the bane of all joy of schoolwork… [...]
Posted in Academic, Library 2.0 on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Found via Tame the Web:
McMaster University Library in California has appointed an Immersive Learning (Gaming) Librarian. To quote:
Shawn’s primary responsibility will be for exploring, creating, supporting and promoting library resources through gaming and virtual worlds.
I find it on one hand astonishing and on the other extremely reassuring that gaming is finally getting more acceptance in [...]
Posted in Humor, Scary on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Found via Tame the Web:
Traits for the 20th Century Librarian. A very entertaining read!
Posted in Usability on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Found via The Shifted Librarian:
Apparently the Exeter Public Library in Rhode Island has not only signed up with Netflix, but they will also get movies they don’t have via Netflix to their patrons. Now THAT’s innovative.
