Archive for the 'Library & Information Science' Category

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Library Social Networks on Ning

I’ve had a Ning account for about a year, but I really hadn’t used it much. Well recently Ning seems to have gained popularity, at least among library folks.
ALA now has a Ning site, and Bill Drew has started a Library 2.0 site on Ning. There is also a Librarian Bloggers site. It will be [...]

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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Work and a post worth keeping at the top

Well work on new UTK templates has kept me from blogging much lately. But I still read blogs, Walt at Random among them.
So when he posted today about Kathy Sierra of the blog “Creating Passionate Users” receiving death threats and canceling speaking engagements, I had to go to her blog and read her latest [...]

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Friday, November 3rd, 2006

This library is just way too full

From Flickr
Update: Just to be clear, I didn’t take this photo. I just found it on Flickr and thought it looked cool.

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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Research Beyond Google (because Google can’t find everything)

Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources
There’s plenty of good information and links here. Some of these resources I knew about, but there are plenty on this list that I didn’t.
Google is great for the quick fact check or the shotgun approach to just see what’s out there. But when you need [...]

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Friday, April 7th, 2006

What is a librarian?

Library Journal has a short article about a session at the recent PLA conference in Boston, titled “Is the MLS Needed for a Career in Public Librarianship?”. Daniel Walters, director of the Las Vegas–Clark County Library District, sees nothing wrong with hiring non librarians, especially in technical areas such as cataloging. Cataloging is being [...]

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