New library blog

A delightful new blog acquaintance for me is In the Library with the Lead Pipe. It’s co-written by six librarians with wonderfully varying backgrounds. It is also
“intended to help improve our communities, our libraries, and our professional organizations. Our goal is to explore new ideas and start conversations; to document our concerns and argue for [...]

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Formatting problems on Level1librarian

I’ve found it both pragmatic and helpful to write my blog entries in a word-processing program prior to posting, and it’s worked fine until now. Some recent WordPress update or feature has started to interfere with text formatting after cutting and pasting. Please bear with me as I work out the kinks.

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Swing that book cart!

The impressive librarian drill team – the winners from the 2007 ALA annual conference – from YouTube:

[video ca. 4 min]
As long as you’re at it, I encourage you to take a peek at the SLA blogs list. I found a lot of interest and of use.
Via the SLA Blog.

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SLA’s 23 Things

I’ve decided to participate in SLA’s 23 Things project to learn about web 2.0 applications. I know and use some of the tools already, but there’s always new things to learn (yay!).
Week 2’s Reflection:
Since I’ve read and written blogs for years now, this assignment is somewhat moot. I can’t even remember why I picked the [...]

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Librarians blogging for outsiders, outsider librarians blogging

The Library Day in the Life wiki collects blogs by librarians to “share and learn about the joys and challenges of working in a library.” The bloggers range from children’s librarians to YA to science librarians to heads of departments. Blogging librarians are not exactly a new phenomenon, but I don’t think they in general [...]

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Tips on blogging, blog readers, and RSS

A few links on how to improve ur Internets:

14 “Other” Ways to Use RSS Feeds from makeuseof.com lists less talked about services like sending any RSS updates to your email and converting news feeds to speech.
10 Smart Hacks for Google Reader from Lifehack. Via LibrarianInBlack. [...]

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More on introverted networking

A Guide For The Introverted Blogger by Micah Sparacio. The first in series of entries about introvert-specific blogging – unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this promise remains unfulfilled after more than a year. The gold nugget among the slightly unpolished entry is this:
“Introverts usually bring a long term vision to their blogging. They [...]

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Choose your words carefully…

…or they may come back to haunt you. This is even more true in the Internet age.
Lately, on the basis of a very unscientific sampling, the most popular search engine terms people use to get to this blog are “why is carrot good for u”, “carrot is good for”, “what is carrot good for”, and [...]

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Mapping

BlewSpace offers a nice, visual way to locate bloggers.
Via LibrarianInBlack.
The Europa Polyglotta map, published in mid-1700s, tries a completely different kind and even more fascinating mapping (for us linguists, at any rate):
“to show the concordances and differences between all the languages spoken in Europe by spelling out the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer [...]

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Collected links

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 [...]

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