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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Blogs
Top Tech Trends 2007
Well, it’s not a list from an official generator of trend lists, but Karen Coombs has posted a Top Tech Trends 2007 list that I think is well thought out and close to the mark. How quickly (and how completely) … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Source
Tagged Karen Coombs
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Lawrence Lessig: the next 10 years
Lawrence Lessig, chair of Creative Commons, writer for Wired Magazine, and much much more, has announced that he is changing the course of his life, and will be attempting to champion the cause of a democratic society. Don’t read my … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Government, News, Politics
Tagged chair, Lawrence Lessig, Wired Magazine, writer
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Projects and Time Management
No brand new flashy sites in this post; just a small collection of links on how one deals with the demands of time, projects and learning: Big or Small? — Jen Riley at the Indiana University Digital Library Program has … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Education, OCLC, Training
Tagged energy, Indiana University, Jen Riley, Karen Schneider, Roy Tennant
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Library 2.0 : Ken Varnum – RSS Basics and Beyond
Ken Varnum – RSS Basics and Beyond : Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most out of Syndicated Content. (PowerPoint) (Handout) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Data format: RSS, RDF, Atom, etc. data interchange (sharing) : syndication – think of what … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, OSUL2007, Web Design
Tagged Adobe, blog
software, Browser, Computer, Google, html, Ken Varnum, Perl, php, Reuters, Ruby, search databases, web
web page, web web page, webblog software, Yahoo
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Michael Gorman’s Sleep of Reason
Michael Gorman, former president of ALA, has riled up some people with his posts on Britannica Blog titled Web 2.0 : The Sleep of Reason (part I) and (part II). He makes some excellent points about scholarship and the perils … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Open Access
Tagged Alabama, Free Range Librarian, Librarian.net, Michael Gorman, president, Reason
Michael Gorman, Reason
Michael Gorman, web publishers
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Getting Change to Stick
A post, Getting change to stick, at Karen Coomb’s blog, has me thinking about change and growth, but not in an institutional sense, but in more of a personal sense. I think people can fall into the same trap: we … Continue reading
Google Book Search and Copyright
A blog post by Richard Charkin, Chairman of Macmillan UK, about he and a colleague “stealing” a couple of computers from the Google booth at BookExpo in order to make a point about Google’s placing snippets of books online makes … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google
Tagged chair, Chairman, Google, Macmillan UK, Richard Charkin, search tool
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Roy Tenant at OCLC
Roy Tenant, formerly of the California Digital Library has been working for OCLC’s RLG Programs division for the past few weeks, and has posted his impressions on the hangingtogether blog. It is well worth reading, and especially to note that … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, OCLC, Online Services
Tagged California Digital Library, Roy Tenant
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Google’s Algorithms and the Library Quest
Jonathan Rochkind has an interesting commentary on this New York Times article about Google’s Algorithm titled Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine. I really don’t have much to add, except for the thought that we are too mired in the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Libraries, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, New York Times, search engine
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Follow-up: Elsevier and the arms business
A couple of months ago I wrote a post about the publishing company Reed Elsevier and their involvement in the world arms trade. Editors and writers from several of their journals, including The Lancet, were arguing that it was unethical … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Medical, News
Tagged Elsevier, Reed Elsevier
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Freebase article on OpenBusiness
Freebase is a new project which I described in a posting last March. OpenBusiness recently ran an interview on their blog with the sites founders. from Open Access News
Posted in Blogs, Online Services, Open Access, Web Design, Wiki
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Wide Open Education
Wide Open Education is a new blog from the Online Education Database. Each of these links is well worth following: you will find great information and resources related to the open education movement on either. from Open Access News
Posted in Blogs, Education, Online Services
Tagged Online Education Database
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Advice to a slightly less experienced geek librarian
Advice to a slightly less experienced geek librarian is written by Daniel Chudnov at One Big Library, and is an excellent essay with good advice for anyone exploring new ways to do things in libraries. I can vouch for a … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Training, Tutorials
Tagged Advice, Daniel Chudnov, experienced geek librarian, One Big Library, slightly less experienced geek librarian
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Ok… not on hiatus
Due to some really time-consuming activities over the next two months, I had thought that it would not be possible to make time to update the LibrarySupportStaff.org blog as it should be. However, after a couple of weeks away from … Continue reading
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Library of Congress Blog
It seems odd that it hasn’t happened before now, but the Library of Congress has just started a blog. from One Big Library
Posted in Blogs, Government, Libraries
Tagged Congress, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Blog It, One Big Library
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libSite.org
libSite.org is a brand new, as well as fantastic, site for us library folk to visit, contribute to, and benefit from. It is a wiki that is used to let others know of library-related web sites, blogs, and other resources … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged Leo Klein
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Copyright Discussion
On Coyle’s InFormation, a blog written by the ever-interesting Karen Coyle, there is a discussion about the transcripts of a Section 108 Study Group meeting hosted by the Library of Congress on the topic of copyright, libraries and digitization. These meetings are happening … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Copyright, Fair Use, Libraries, Online Databases, Periodicals
Tagged Congress, digitization/internet, Karen Coyle, Library of Congress
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This site is now naked (’till tomorrow)
Jessamyn points out that today is CSS Naked Day, a day to shut off our CSS style sheets and remind ourselves to keep everything accessible without styes. The site will look fancy again tomorrow!
Google/OCLC news
Big news today in the announcement that Google has acquired OCLC. What will this mean for libraries? The merging of the Google Books Project and Worldcat, for starters. The library blogs are all over this story, so I will simply … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Humor, Libraries, OCLC
Tagged Bush administration, Google, Google Books Project, Library Garden, OCLC, Worldcat
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