Posted in Images on Friday, November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Oh, had we only know about this picture of the book anatomy at the beginning of our cataloging class.
(Embed doesn’t work; you’ll just have to follow the link.)
Posted in Academic, Eh?, Service, Tech on Friday, November 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey apparently requires students to buy a cell phone from a specific carrier for security reasons.
At first I thought it was a joke. But no: the MSU Campus Connect Help Center has information and FAQs about the program. My husband, who’s teaching at MSU this fall and next spring, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Links, Web 2.0 on Friday, November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been too busy to blog for working on my seminar research and paper, internship, and volunteer library project for the American-Sscandinavian Foundation. At the end of the day, my energy goes to rewinding so I can eventually finish the paper. Here’s an attempt to keep up, though.
A Drive: online storage (first 50 GB are [...]
Posted in Future, Reading, Tech on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Newsweek reports on the latests electronic reader, the Amazon Kindle. The device has some tempting features: you can search the text and change the font size. It holds about 200 books, more if you get a memory card. It connects to the store: browsing, and reading and posting reviews can be done without a computer. [...]
Posted in Copyright, Digital rights, Future on Saturday, November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
A TED video of Lessig’s speech (ca. 20 min) found via the Information Research blog. As the TED site puts it,
The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property [...]
Posted in Library 2.0, Links, Service, Solutions, Tech, Web 2.0 on Saturday, November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
iLibrarian has made three winderful pages of Firefox add-ons that are useful for librarians. I learned more than I anticipated. (Did you know there are 250 downloadable Firefox themes?) Part three isn’t perhaps as diverse as one and two, but all are worth a look.
40 Useful Firefox Add-ons for Librarians Part 1, Part 2 and [...]
Posted in Blogging, Language, Usability on Thursday, November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Apparently the reading level of this blog is high-school:
I wonder how they determine it, though. Vocabulary?
Via Stephen’s Lighthouse. Like he notes, matching your language to your target audience is good. I’m just not convinced this is the tool for it.
Posted in Studies on Thursday, November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
In the responses for my Seminar & Practicum survey, that is. I’m up to four.
Posted in Cataloging, Future, Tech, tagged LC draft on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I was looking forward to the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control presenting their draft report. Unfortunately, it’s not available yet:
November 14, 2007
Due to unprecedented demand for the live Webcast of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, some of you were unable to view the broadcast in its [...]
Posted in Studies, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I participated in my first web conference yesterday. It was an exciting experience! There were no technical problems, and the presenter clearly understood the limitations of the medium. Definitely something to try again.
I also e-mailed selected libraries an invitation to participate in a reclassification survey for my Seminar & Practicum class. I used SurveyMonkey to [...]
