LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Conferences interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:07:01 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6615764.html?rssid=190 Some 200 student reporters from the New York City area yesterday grilled five of this year’s National Book Award finalists at the 11th annual Teen Press Conference . (Source: School Library Journal Breaking News) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:12:44 +0100 674574 http://infoblog.infopeople.org/2008/11/cla_2008_a_whole_new_mind_with.php Daniel Pink, best-selling author of A Whole New Mind, takes us on a tour through the world of innovation, competition, and the changing nature of work while entertaining and challenging us. Charting the rise of right-brain thinking in modern economies, he outlines six abilities individuals and organizations must master in an outsourced and automated world. This is a podcast version of the talk Pink gave as part of the Master Speaker series at the California Library Association's annual conference on Nov 15, 2008 in San Jose. (Source: Infoblog) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:55:44 +0100 674545 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2008/11/19/drupal4lib-camp/ Sometimes serendity is so terrific. I started a conversation with Amanda Etches-Johnson at Internet Librarian about the need for a Drupal in libraries conference or unconference. Then we dragged John Blyberg and into the mix. The result was the following: Darien Library will be hosting a "Drupal4Lib Camp" on Friday, February ... (Source: Library Web Chic) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:45:02 +0100 674490 http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/new/index.php/2008/11/19/the-sequoya-branch-library-opens-thursday/ The much-anticipated new Sequoya Branch of Madison Public Library will officially open to the public at 9 a.m. tomorrow. “We appreciate the enthusiasm of the many library customers who are excited for us to open, as well as the generosity and efforts of the many donors and staff who helped make this Sequoya Branch Library renaissance possible,” said Jane Roughen, Community Services Manager for Branch Libraries. “It’s a significantly larger library, zoned and equipped to support quiet individual pursuits and livelier group activities.” The library, expanded to 20,000 square feet from 12,000 square feet, features a special children’s area with sections devoted to early literacy and family reading, an area especially for teens, and a hearth room for quiet reading. There is a large community room for neighborhood meetings and programs, and smaller conference rooms for study groups, small meetings and tutoring. The new Sequoya will offer expanded Internet access computer stations with centralized printing, as well as full WI-FI availability for laptop users, the option of self-service checkout and nearly 120,000 assorted books and media as well as access to valuable subscription-based informational and educational databases through the LINK system. Sequoya is the busiest Madison Public Library branch, with 279,000 visits and 690,000 items checked out this year. The new library is a departure from the decor of more recently remodeled Madison libraries in that it has a more structural feel, with some exposed elements and bright accent colors. Sequoya construction incorporated many “green” elements such as natural/renewable materials and finishes, and kind-to-the-environment features like a greywater system that collects rainwater from the roof for toilet flushing. ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:39:58 +0100 674462 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Elsua/~3/458840151/ As I have mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, I was planning to put together a number of different entries with the highlights from the superb EventoBlog 2008 that I attended in Seville, over the weekend, to then let you folks know some more of what the experience was like, my impressions, what I learned, some of the folks I have met, the outcome from my talk and some overall feedback, but alas, I think I am eventually going to start with something rather unusual. At least, first time that it happens to me after coming back from an event: COUGH! COUGH! COUGH! Yes, that’s right, as a consequence of having the air-conditioning of the venue, Hotel Barceló, really blown up, I have now returned back home and a couple of days later, I am almost knocked out by a nasty cold I am going through that’s not even helping me think very clearly either for that matter! Ouch!!! And it looks like I haven’t been the only one either! A few of the folks I have connected with through Twitter after the event have also been commenting on the same thing. So it looks like the airco managed to knock us all out while at the venue! Double ouch! What’s the immediate result of that, you may be wondering, right? Well, for me, that this is going to be the first blog post with some of the highlights from EventoBlog: a cold! And a nasty one, too! So you may need to excuse me for a couple of days while I try to recover with some hot chicken soup, hot milk & honey, some drugs (hehe, not that kind!) and see if in a couple of days I can come back up in full force with those reviews and on to my usual regular blogging. So if you see this blog going dormant for a couple of days or so, you know why. The lovely, and apparently, very powerful air-conditioning from the venue event. And you know the worst part, that I mentioned it throughout the entire event how we needed to do something about it, and nothing happened, eventually. ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:52:16 +0100 674602 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2008/11/19/owens-corning-increases-recycled-content-in-pink-fiberglastm-insulation-to-40-percent/ Read the press release. At the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Boston, Mass., Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) announced it has increased the certified recycled content in its flagship PINK Fiberglas(TM) insulation to a minimum of 40 percent. At this level of recycled content, the amount of waste glass diverted from landfills could form a two-lane glass highway that extends 1.3 times around the world(1). The certification, supplied by leading, independent third-party certifier Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), demonstrates a five percent increase over its prior level and maintains the product line’s status as the fiberglass insulation with the highest level of certified recycled content in North America. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:49:43 +0100 674382 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Peter_Scott39s_Library_Blog The conference will provide an international platform to all stakeholders to address all issues of importance to academic libraries, discuss and deba (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:26 +0100 674296 http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/wilbert/2008/11/18/if-enterprise-architecture-is-about-the-business-where-are-the-business-people/ The Open Group Enterprise Architecture conference in Munich last month saw a first meeting of Dutch and British Enterprise Architecture projects in Higher Education. Probably the most noticeable aspect of the enterprise architecture in higher education session was the commonality of theme not just between the Dutch and British HE institutions, but also between the HE [...] (Source: JISC CETIS News) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:35:13 +0100 674308 http://allthingsamy.blogspot.com/2008/11/tv-intern-loses-it.html University of Minnesota student and KSTP-TV intern Jennifer Nicole Anato-Mensah reacted quite badly to the news that she was being fired. Told by executive producer Danielle Prenevost that her experience wasn't enough for the job, Anato-Mensah proceeded to yell threats and kicked out the glass of a conference room door atttempting to get at Prenevost. Anato-Mensah has been charged with (Source: All Things Amy) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674606 http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2008/11/jones-sheilla-quantum-ten-story-of.html Enough with the physics books, already! After a summer of more or less nothing but physics books, I should have probably tried something a bit different. On the other hand, this book is about one of the most interesting periods in all the history of physics -- that transitional time in the first third of the 20th century when some of the greatest minds of all time worked out the foundations of quantum physics. Back when I read Isaacson's Einstein book, that was one of the periods that fascinated me the most, especially because it was so instructive to see a brilliant mind like Einstein be so doggedly wrong. In a way, it gives hope to us all.But, back to the book at hand.Canadian journalist Sheilla Jones is basically telling the story of the rise of quantum theory through the stories of ten men: Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Dirac, Erwin Schrodinger, Louis de Broglie, Pascual Jordan and Paul Ehrenfest. It is through their interactions up until the Fifth Solvay Conference in 1927 that the story is told. Jones does an admirable job of telling those 10 interrelated stories in a clear and comprehensible way. Some are highlighted more, such as Einstein, Bohr or Born and some less, such as Jordan or Dirac. However, if one person can said to be the main lens through which Jones tells the story, it is the tragic, troubled Paul Ehrenfest, the confidant of Einstein who ultimately committed suicide while also taking the life of his disabled son. His doubts and insecurities concerning his own abilities as a physicist are a perfect mirror in many ways for the perceived doubts and insecurities of the new quantum reality that those men had to come to grips with.Jones does a fine job of telling a scientific story through biographical details, weaving in the darkening tale of pre-Nazi-era Europe in the tale as well. ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674571 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/458065925/blog-notes-on-charleston-conference.html Molly Keener has posted notes on OA Exposed!, a panel at the Charleston Conference (Charleston, November 5-8, 2008). (Source: Open Access News) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674265 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/458117750/sit-ins-for-oa.html From a transcript of Lawrence Lessig's keynote at the Students for Free Culture Conference (Berkeley, October 11-12, 2008): ... I think the obvious, low-hanging-fruit fight for the Students for Free Culture movement right now is to start having sit-ins in universities where they don’t adopt Open Access publishing rules. It’s ridiculous that scholars publish articles in journals that then charge 5, 10, 15 thousand dollars for people around the world to get access to it. I mean it’s no problem for Stanford or for Berkeley or for Harvard, but the developing world cannot get access to this stuff easily because of these extraordinarily idiotic 20th Century restrictions on access to knowledge. ... (Source: Open Access News) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674262 http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2008/11/18/the-ad-dressing-of-rats/ (with apologies to TS Eliot) Not all repository-rats are as difficult or irascible as I am. We are, I will venture to say, a tough crowd to speak to, though. What I know about us, based on observation, is that we tend to be on the one hand ruthlessly practical, on the other remarkably attuned to our environment. I myself am more the former than the latter, but in all honesty, it’s the latter group of rats who tend to be more successful. We are also a group of people that has had a lot of ideas that turned out to be wrongheaded shoved at us, and a lot of smack talked about and to us. Moreover, those of us who have been in this business awhile are a bruised, beaten crew, and we are cynical in direct proportion to our scars. That makes us a tough crowd. Herewith, some suggestions for avoiding the biggest pratfalls in talking to us. Know what we do and respect its difficulty. Breaking this dictum seems to be particularly common among career academics, and it may be part and parcel of academia’s general disdain for librarians. Nonetheless, the successful rat-whisperer knows something about the lifecycle, care and feeding, and behavior patterns of the common repository-rat. We know when you lack clue. We do not appreciate it. We are, however, a fairly approachable species. If you don’t know what we do and why it’s hard, ask before you speak, please. Or, you know, read something like Palmer et al. Understand our environment. There is a lot about open access in general and IRs in particular that’s just plain weird. I am constantly gobsmacked, caught utterly by surprise, by things that go on in this arena. That said, a lot of what goes on can be reasoned about from available evidence, and a number of us engage in this reasoning regularly. Peter Suber, of course, is an honorary repository-rat in this regard. ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:35:46 +0100 674438 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Elsua/~3/457790942/ After a day and a half of a massive catchup; after a wonderful week on holidays, which ended up with yours truly attending (And presenting) at EventoBlog 2008 in Seville last weekend, it is now time to resume my regular blogging activities on my second day back at work! Goodness! What a fantastic few days! For the first time in a few months I have been about 99% of the time totally disconnected from everything Internet related and it felt great! I now know I should be doing this a whole lot more often! It was just too good to be ignored again! But if those vacation days were not good enough, over the course of last weekend I have actually been attending one of the most impressive, and wonderful, social computing events I have attended in the last few months: EventoBlog 2008 in Seville, Spain. Two full days packed with some stunning presentations, round tables and panels around the world of blogging that would be difficult to forget! And the networking throughout the event was just an amazing experience I am hoping to be sharing with you folks shortly. So much so that after attending the event, two days onwards and I am still jazzed up about it! So much that I have decided that from now onwards there will be a number of changes happening with my blogging habits, one of them being that very shortly I will be starting to blog as well in Spanish, as well as English, so that I would be able to reach out to those folks as well who asked plenty of questions and commented quite a bit around the subject of my giving up on e-mail at work new reality, which was the main subject of my talk at Sunday noon. But that would be the subject for a number of upcoming blog posts as part of the series of highlights articles I will be sharing over here shortly detailing what the event was all about. ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:02:48 +0100 674407 http://chicagolibrarian.com/node/319 This is still a while off but I thought I'd put out an initial request before the holidays officially begin. It's a request for ideas and suggestions for the meeting of the LITA Drupal4Lib Interest Group at the 2009 ALA Conference in Chicago. Feel free to leave comments either here or on the LITA Blog at: http://tinyurl.com/Drupal4LibALAchicago [more after the jump...] read more (Source: Chicago Librarian - Design, Techology & Culture from a Librarian living in Chicago) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:31:51 +0100 673979 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/11/algorithms-for-clustering-tags.html Clustering Tags in Enterprise and Web Folksonomies by Simpson, Edwin will be published and presented at the International Conference on Weblogs & Social Media, Seattle, March 31st, 2008 (HPL-2008-18 )Tags lack organizational structure limiting their utility for navigation. We present two clustering algorithms that improve this by organizing tags automatically. We apply the algorithms to two very different datasets, visualize the results and propose future improvements. (Source: Catalogablog) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:03:00 +0100 673915 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ouseful/~3/457206802/ When I was putting together a talk (Users and Demons) for some visitors to the OU Library from the Cambridge University Library Arcadia project (who also put together the Cambridge Library Science Portal) a month or two ago, I included a slide depicting what might be a “typical” user of Library research related services. “Where I work” by Zach Klein Note the presence of the dual computer screens on the desk - wandering round the various corridors of the OU, it’s surprising how many people are now working with dual screen computers. But the dual screen view is not just for the office desktop. I now find that I watch television with a laptop on my knee (and looking at my friends’ Tweets, I know some of them are in the habit of watching television with iPod or iPhone to hand (I can tell from the clients that the tweets are posted with)) - dual screen viewing again, though this time with one big screen relaying “pure” video content, and the other information, or a conversational back channel. I also read Sunday papers with a laptop nearby - for fact checking, story chasing, and related info… Not a dual screen view, but a dual media view: one display surface for “fixed” textual information (the newspaper), one screen, with network connection. Every time I go to a seminar or conference presentation, and many of the times I go into a meeting, I take a laptop. Dual channel, stereo info… One channel: other people, face-to-face; one channel: a screen and keyboard connection to the net. And even if 2D Sema codes are not the way to go for Printing Out Online Course Materials With Embedded Movie Links, I’m convinced that dual media channels are going to have a huge impact on the way we deliver educational materials, particularly to distance education students. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:22:08 +0100 674113 http://www.selco.info/blogs/selco-librarian/archive/2008/11/18/music-library-association-midwest-chapter-meeting-oct-23-25-2008 Abbey Thompson, LSTA Project Cataloging LibrarianOn October 23rd, I drove down to Kansas City, Missouri for the Midwest chapter meeting of the Music Library Association. While we all know that the library world is a little too full of organizations with the acronym of “MLA” (the Modern Languages Association, Medical Library Association, Minnesota Library Association, just to name a few), this particular MLA is near and dear to my own heart. I’ve been attending various MLA functions since starting library school, and every conference has been nothing less than stellar. This meeting was no different, full of useful information and learning opportunities blended with copious prospects for networking and social interaction with fellow music librarians. The session on providing access to sheet music collections was particularly enlightening, considering my work with the Chatfield Brass Band collection. Though new to this particular chapter (previously I attended chapter meetings in the Southeast region), I felt immediately welcomed and encouraged by my new peers.I have now been working with SELCO for just over three months, on the Chatfield Brass Band Music Lending Library project. My excitement for the project has only grown in this time, and I particularly wanted to take the opportunity at this conference to spread awareness of this amazing collection and the work that SELCO is doing to make it more accessible. By the end of the weekend, the question that I had answered the most was, without a doubt, “What is SELCO?” The majority of music librarians work in academic library settings, so to be confronted with a name-badge bearing our unfamiliar acronym, rather than a university or college, was initially baffling to some. Once explanations were made, however, I received nothing but praise and excitement about the project. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:16:16 +0100 674228 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2008/11/call-for-papersabstracts-and-invited.html Call for Papers/Abstracts and Invited Sessions Proposals for The 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management: KGCM 2009 (http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/kgcm). It will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 10th - 13th, 2009.Deadlines:Papers/Abstracts Submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals: December 19th, 2008Authors Notifications: January 14th, 2009Camera-ready, full papers: February 11th, 2009-------------------------------------------------------MainTopics:Knowledge CommunicationKnowledge GenerationKnowledge ManagementKnowledge EngineeringKnowledge RepresentationKnowledge Communication and ConferencesKnowledge Verification and ValidationPeer ReviewingScientific and Technical PublishingElectronic PublishingElectronic LibrariesAll Submitted papers/abstracts will go through three reviewing processes: (1) double-blind (at least three reviewers), (2) non-blind, and (3) participative peer reviews. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in both the printed and the CD versions of the proceedings.Awards will be granted to the best paper of those presented at each session. From these session's best papers, the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, with no additional cost for their authors.For Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the conference web site or, directly, to http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/KGCM/organizer.asp (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:50:00 +0100 674009 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/457081306/international-conference-on-academic.html International Conference on Academic Libraries is being organized to come up with a vision for next generation academic libraries in order to meet the challenge of knowledge society, in giving the country a competitive edge in knowledge economy. The conference will provide an international platform to all stakeholders to address all issues of importance to academic libraries, discuss and debate roles that academic libraries can play in the higher education system in developed and developing countries with particular reference to India by 2020. The scope of the conference will be: knowledge sharing, ICT management, digital repository management, e-teaching, e-tutorials, stronger library-faculty relationships, and user centric services - October 5-8, 2009 - Delhi, India (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:26:19 +0100 674053 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=LibrarianInBlack_Book_Mob_at_the_San_Francisco_Public_Library Through a conference contact a little while back, I got in touch with Rosie Merlin, the Program Outreach Librarian for the San Francisco Public Libra (Source: pligg - all) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:00:19 +0100 673808 http://www.tangognat.com/2008/11/17/amethyst-princess-of-gemworld-8-second-series/ This issue is the halfway point of the second mini-series. It features the final confrontation between Amethyst and Fire Jade aka the late Lady Emerald. Also, Citrina wakes up for some cosmic magical shenanigans. The cover shows a giant spectral Amethyst and Fire Jade slugging it out over the Emerald Castle while a crowd looks on. The text on the cover proclaims “From Death a New Beginning!” and the title of the issue is “Rebirth.” The Gemworld has a unique approach to video conference calling. Amethyst, Prince Garnet, and Princess Emerald are talking to the other nobles through some purple bubbles that show their disembodied heads. Lord Ruby thinks that Prince Garnet is mistaken, but Amethyst believes him. She’s called everyone together to tell them that Fire Jade is really the Lady Emerald. For some reason Lord Garnet isn’t there, maybe they are saving the big reunion scene with his son for later? Lady Topaz, charming as ever, suggests that Amethyst has gone mad because Lady Emerald is dead. There’s a bunch of exposition from Prince Garnet outlining why Lady Emerald has returned from the dead as Fire Jade. Then he drops a tidbit of information that explains why the storms and Citrina’s illness are linked. Citrina didn’t discover the Gemworld, she actually created it out of bits of magic from different worlds. She was the most powerful sorcerer of Earth when she was young. (As always, click to make the images bigger) Fire Jade’s plan of creating storms to weaken the Gemworld’s magic and sending Sardonyx to kill Citrina had one goal - the total annihilation of the Gemworld. If Citrina dies the Gemworld will cease to exist. Prince Garnet warns that he expects Fire Jade to attack the Emerald Domain first, because she’ll be strongest there. If they fail to fight her off the other nobles must prepare their own defenses. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:28:04 +0100 673768 http://scanblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/cheerleaders-and-librarians.html I attended the California Library Association conference in San Jose this past weekend. Sharing the convention center was a competition of cheer squads. These are cheerleaders who don't cheer for a specific team, school, or sport, but rather compete on the basis of their own athleticism, coordination, and style.It occurred to me that libraries should both have cheerleaders (because of the importance and the necessity of the work done) and be cheerleaders (to show the rest of the world how excited we are about what we do).One of the findings of the recent OCLC report From Awareness to Funding was the importance of passionate librarians in making the case for libraries. What could be more passionate than a champion cheerleader? (Source: It's all good) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674112 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Grumpator/~3/457341707/go-go-grumpator-gadgets.html So I've had my lovely Dell Mini 9 for nearly 3 weeks and I gave it a workout at the Charleston Conference. My review: it is super awesome! It's light and easy to carry around. I worked on my probationary review letter on the plane ride, and I can't imagine trying to use a larger laptop on a plane in such a confined space. I took tons of notes at conference sessions. The battery life is good, probably about 4 hours (I got it down to 20% or so after 3 hours, but got obsessive and plugged it in). Because I'm a laptop newb, despite being such a gadget freak, I had been concerned about connecting to wireless networks, but it is very easy. It is everything I could ever want in a laptop, and it gives me extra geekery cred because it's so tiny - strangers come up and coo over it as if it were a baby. I love it!One caveat - the 'u' key was defective and sticky - whenever I typed any key around it, I got an extra 'u'. However, I told Dell about it and they sent me a new keyboard within 2 days. We swapped it out (very easy), and I'm sending the defective keyboard back. No problem, and it says a lot about Dell's customer service - I'm quite pleased with such a rapid response.In other gadget news, I drowned my precious HTC 8125 last week. It still works, but it hasn't fully recovered - it no longer closes completely (that's my fault), some of the keys on the keyboard don't work at all, and many of the buttons stick. Considering I've had my precious for over 2 years, I decided it was time to retire it and get a new phone. However, because I now have a laptop I have a hard time justifying another smartphone, including justifying the expense when I can get a new phone as a free "upgrade." So, I decided on the Sony Ericsson W580i. I chose it because it is green, and it will be nice to have a phone that is not the size of a brick. I feel a little like I'm "upgrading" from broadband to dial-up, but I really do just need a phone. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674110 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/457346441/oa-to-geo-coded-biodiversity.html Today's Nepal News has a report on conference, Linking Geodata with Biodiversity Information in the Himalayas (Kathmandu, November 15-16, 2008).  Excerpt: A two-day workshop "Linking Geodata with Biodiversity Information in the Himalayas" organised by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Global Mountain Biodiversity Programme (GMBA) concluded on Sunday (Nov 16) with a call to create a mountain biodiversity information network in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region for mutual benefit and trans boundary cooperation.... ICIMOD and GMBA shared their experiences in developing GIS-enabled biodiversity portals as a gateway for biodiversity information and demonstrated the benefit of geo-referenced biodiversity data for integrated analysis and spatial visualisation of biodiversity information in relation to climate, land use, physiography, and other important parameters. The workshop participants deliberated on ways of improving the biodiversity database at the national and local levels, the need for standardisation and harmonisation for data exchange, and providing a way to facilitate easy and open access to geo-coded biodiversity information.... (Source: Open Access News) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674070 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/457250475/report-keeping-records-of-science.html Keeping the records of science accessible: can we afford it? is a 14-page report on the 2008 Annual Conference of the Alliance for Permanent Access, held in Budapest on Nov. 4, 2008. Abstract:This summary aims to highlight those presentations and comments with the greatest relevance for the key theme of the conference, ‘Business models for permanent access’, leaving the reader to gain more detailed insights from the individual powerpoint presentations. Reported by Inge Angevaare, coordinator of the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation.I won't have time to read this for a while, but as I skim through the report, these points from Neil Williams stand out:Massive and rapidly increasing data floodResponsibility to preserve the correct data, for future needImportance of unified policy either at (inter)national or disciplinary levelPreservation is a specialist skill in its own right. Be clear, and separate who is responsible for archiving data (the provider) and preserving and organising the archive (the archivist).Technorati tag: Digital PreservationThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674058 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2008/11/report-keeping-records-of-science.html Keeping the records of science accessible: can we afford it? is a 14-page report on the 2008 Annual Conference of the Alliance for Permanent Access, held in Budapest on Nov. 4, 2008. Abstract:This summary aims to highlight those presentations and comments with the greatest relevance for the key theme of the conference, ‘Business models for permanent access’, leaving the reader to gain more detailed insights from the individual powerpoint presentations. Reported by Inge Angevaare, coordinator of the Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation.I won't have time to read this for a while, but as I skim through the report, these points from Neil Williams stand out:Massive and rapidly increasing data floodResponsibility to preserve the correct data, for future needImportance of unified policy either at (inter)national or disciplinary levelPreservation is a specialist skill in its own right. Be clear, and separate who is responsible for archiving data (the provider) and preserving and organising the archive (the archivist).Technorati tag: Digital PreservationThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673923 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/seealso/~3/456783145/how_to_annoy_librarians_a_one-act_play.html SCENE: An urban artist’s studio, the home of AL. Posters and clippings representing Dadaist icons and avant-garde performance artists are on the walls. The “READ” poster from the American Library Association depicting Stephen Colbert is on the wall, with AL’s photo taped over Colbert’s face. Prominent among the books and letters liberally strewn around the room are volumes by Lazlo Toth, The Hitler Diaries, and Atlanta Nights. AL–a “downtown” artist type–sits cross legged on the floor, typing on a laptop. Nearby are copies of Library Journal, Journal of Access Services, and other library trade publications and journals. As AL types, he pauses to shake a cocktail shaker, and pours himself a martini, which he drinks with evident pleasure. There is a knock at the door. AL: (Loud) Who is it? CY: (On the other side of the door) It’s me, Cy! AL: (Gets up to answer the door and shows in CY. CY is another artist/actor type, black clothes, disheveled.) Hey! Glad you could come. Want a martini? CY: Dude, it’s like 10 AM. No thanks. AL: (Shrugs, takes another sip.) So how is your grant application going? CY: Ah, not great. Nobody wants to fund anybody to do a “Kabuki Three’s Company.” AL: I’m shocked. CY: I know! Japan is cool, 1970s sitcoms are cool. What could be better? (Sighs.) So how about that online performance art thing you were telling me about? AL: “The Annoyed Librarian?” Oh man! It just gets better and better! CY: Explain this to me again. You got a grant to impersonate an obnoxious librarian in a blog? AL: Yeah, basically. It’s such a great gig. I read librarians’ blogs, come up with a contrary position, write that up at length, and wait for the reactions to roll in. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:47:42 +0100 674365 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=23293 U.S. Conference of Mayors 153 City Survey Shows ‘Read-to-Go’ Local Jobs and Infrastructure Projects Would Create Hundreds of Thousand of Jobs, Spur National Economy (PDF; 166 KB) Source: U.S. Conference of Mayors The nation’s mayors today reiterated their call for a MainStreet Stimulus package in the lame- duck Congress by releasing the first in a series of reports that inventories each city’s ‘ready-to-go’ infrastructure projects – projects that could be started and completed in calendar year 2009 — if emergency federal funding were made available. Information on these projects has been submitted to the U.S. Conference of Mayors from 153 cities of all sizes in all regions of the country. In this first release, cities have identified a total of 4,591 infrastructure projects costing a total of $24.4 billion that would create more than a quarter of a million jobs. + Ready-to-Go Projects (PDF; 1.7 MB) (Source: Docuticker) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:48:54 +0100 673687 http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2008/11/personal-health-records-need-marcaacr.html I attended an IT Innovation in Healthcare conference in town today. Practically the entire morning was spent talking about the personal health record (PHR) and related electronic medical record (EMR). While the EMR is information about your health compiled by your health care providers, the PHR is maintained by you.  The ideal PHR would  gather data from many sources and making this information accessible online to anyone who has the necessary electronic credentials to view it.The discussion centered around the fact that it is very difficult to move information between systems. The challenge is the lack of standards. The various PHR and EMR systems don't talk to one another. This got me thinking. The health care industry needs to take some lessons from the library community and establish some data standards.  Libraries got over the hump from a paper-based to an electronic catalog in part since we had two tools to work from; AACR and MARC. AACR covers the description of, and the provision of access points for, all library materials. MARC provides the protocol by which computers exchange, use, and interpret bibliographic information and is responsible for the foundation of the online catalogs we have today. Add on top of this Z39.50 like functionality and we have a basis for a PHR system which could do what it is envisioned to do; harvest and syndicate content between other records systems. There is, however, a bigger challenge. As I bounced this concept off of a CIO of a major academic medical center, they said those standards are in place. They have SNOMED. The librarians out there will immediately see the problem with the response.  For the CIOs out there, well, please have your librarian explain it to you.  (Source: The Medium is the Message) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:32:00 +0100 674129 http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2008/11/book-mob-at-the-san-francisco-public-library.html Through a conference contact a little while back, I got in touch with Rosie Merlin, the Program Outreach Librarian for the San Francisco Public Library.  She organized a Book Mob (flash mob) to coincide with the library's "one book" program that was super-successful and something other libraries could easily model.  I heard about and saw the success of the program through their Flickr photos, so asked Rosie some questions.  Here is the result of our email interview.Can you tell us what a flash mob is, and how a book mob fits in? Quoting Wikipedia, if I may, a flash mob is “a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse.” In San Francisco we see lots of flash mobs including zombie mobs, pillow fight mobs, dance mobs (Thriller in Dolores Park was a special one), and others. The idea for a book mob came up when we were trying to brainstorm new and crafty ways to launch our One City One Book program. 2008 is our fourth year hosting a citywide book club and we knew we wanted something public and exciting and that went beyond more traditional “set up a table and hand out materials” type outreach (though we did some of that during the morning on mob day). With the help of Mary Abler who works at Friends of the SFPL, Jon Worona, SFPL’s BLIP Bookmobile Manager, and a variety of other smart thinkers, we came up with the idea of San Francisco’s first book mob. We googled “book mob” early on and didn’t find anything along the lines of what we were plotting. I’m happy to say that if you google “book mob” now, you’ll find LJ’s blog post about our event. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:41:51 +0100 673673 http://pintini.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/11/17/d-lib-magazine-nov-dec-08.html Au sommaire, notamment, du dernier n° de D-Lib Magazine (vol. 14, n° 11/12, nov.-déc. 08):Edito:- Evolution in the Area of Digital Scholarly CommunicationCommentaire:- The Future of Repositories?Over the past few years, repositories have been created as a product intended to foster dissemination of scholarly works, a shared objective for most academic institutions. Because of this, repositories have grown at a rapid pace over the past decade, with the software trinity of EPrints, DSpace and Fedora leading the field. The openness and willingness of these repository systems to evolve has greatly increased the ability of repositories to disseminate scholarly works; however, the repository community is still in its infancy, and further change as a holistic community is required to support both the users of the systems (institutions) and the users of the resources within the systems (scholars).Articles:- Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information PackagesResponsibility for digital preservation must be distributed among many heterogeneous, geographically dispersed repositories. It must be possible for materials archived in one repository to be exported to and ingested by a second repository without loss of authenticity, digital provenance, or other vital preservation information. Several research and demonstration projects have focused on identifying issues in the exchange of information packages and defining transfer formats. In the TIPR (Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories) project recently funded by the IMLS, partners Cornell University, New York University and the Florida Center for Library Automation will take this research to the next level. TIPR will continue to test and refine the transfer mechanism while beginning to address the semantic issues of repository-to-repository transfer. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:31:00 +0100 673664 http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2008/11/17/professional-schizophrenia/ I’m at SPARC Digital Repositories, heavily caffeinated (two cups of coffee at breakfast, which may have been slightly unwise; one is my usual limit), properly badged, and thoroughly namechecked. I had a lovely breakfast this morning with Jean-Gabriel Bankier, President of BePress. It’s a rare privilege and pleasure to talk shop with people who run the same kinds of shops that I do, and have a similar understanding of the problem space. Jean-Gabriel and I exchanged a lot of useful ideas about what we do, which I’m still chewing on in my head and will share with the rest of you, I hope, a bit later. We sat down in the ballroom just as Heather Joseph was wrapping up her conference opening (sorry, Heather!) so that John Wilbanks of Science Commons could take the stage. Almost the first thing he said: “I am not a repository expert. I almost said ‘I am not a repository rat.’” I promptly shrank down in my seat, reddening. He namechecked poor old Caveat Lector thirty seconds later, as an information source. Five minutes after that, he showed a screenshot of this post, in which it takes me an hour to change one link. (CavLec sure does look pretty on the big screen. Rock on, William Morris!) Twenty minutes after that, he used the “carrots and sticks” metaphor, which I certainly didn’t originate, but I have certainly used in this space. That’s the weirdest feeling in the world, I tell you what. It’s like being the winning coach at a football game when the Gatorade barrel is upended over his head. It’s the feeling of victory, of vindication—but it’s also damn cold and damn wet. I am a figure now, almost a Grand Old Woman ($DEITY help me), in the repository space. I can’t deny that or tiptoe around it any more, much as I would like to. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:39:51 +0100 673471 http://jintan.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/neues-logo-fur-zukunftswerkstatt/ Mit vielen Interessen und Hilfe können wir das Projekt Zukunftswerkstatt bis jetzt sehr gut fortführen. Der Flensburger Künstler Nori Abassi hat für Zukunftswerkstatt ein ganz tolles Logo gemacht. Damit sind wir mit dem Projekt wieder ein Schritt weiter gegangen. Ich schreibe momentan zusammen mit zwei anderen kompetenten Projektmitgliedern auf dem Projektblog von Zukunftswerkstatt, die viele neue Ideen, möchten wir auf nächsten Bibliothekartag verwirklichen und euch zusammen mal in der zukünftigen Bibliotheken “spielen“. Schaut ihr mal bitte auf unserem Blog an, wir freuen uns sehr über jede Unterstützung und neue Ideen. Bibliotheken gehen Spielen - Spielen Sie mit!        (Source: Bibliotan) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:48:08 +0100 674234 http://www.slaw.ca/2008/11/17/freedom-of-expression-and-the-european-court-of-human-rights-a-seminar/ Those interested in European law or in freedom of expression might want to take a look at documents from “The European Protection of Freedom of Expression: Some Recent Restrictive Trends”, a recent seminar at the European Court of Human Rights, which was directed at the question: “Are recent developments in the Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights case-law undermining adequate guarantees for freedom of expression?” Here’s a partial list of papers available in PDF, to give you a sense of what’s there: Freedom of Expression and Article 10 ECHR - Summaries of 20 recent judgments (and decisions) of the European Court of Human Rights by Dirk Voorhoof Les « devoirs » et « responsabilités » des journalistes : une garantie à l’exercice de la liberté d’expression? by Mario Oetheimer Russian Case-Law In The Framework Of Article 10 Of The European Convention by Galina Arapova The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights: a dialogue on freedom of expression standards. by Eduardo Andrés Bertoni There are some 17 papers in all. (Source: Slaw) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:46:59 +0100 674252 http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/calendar/bydate/April09/Web20inreallife.htm UKeiGFind out how 2.0 applications are being used in libraries and information centres, and what actually works. Blogs, wikis, RSS? YouTube, podcasts, Slideshare? Flickr, Connotea, LibraryThing? Facebook, Second Life, Twitter?This workshop will look at the reality of 2.0: what is useful and what is destined for Gartner's 'Trough of Disillusionment', never to be seen again. The workshop will start with a brief overview of Web 2.0 and what it means. It will then look in more detail at how 'stuff' can be used as sources of information, as a means of enhancing services to users, and raising the profile of information services.The areas covered will include: Blogs, wikis, RSS feeds Shared authoring tools Start pages e.g. iGoogle, PageFlakes, NetVibes Social bookmarking services Using YouTube and Flickr as information resources and to promote your group or organisation "Presentation" sites such as Slideshare and Authorstream Social networking sites e.g. Facebook To Twitter or not to Twitter. There will be a heavy practical element to the workshop so that participants can explore Web 2 and try out the technologies for themselves. There will be extensive notes and exercise sheets to guide participants through the day, and all the information and presentations will be available electronically (Source: CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:29:17 +0100 673495 http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/calendar/bydate/April09/SearchingtheInternetGoogleandBeyond.htm UKeiGWith the major search engines claiming coverage of over 20 billion web pages in their databases, it is becoming increasingly difficult to locate relevant information. Most of us head straight for Google when we want to search the Internet but Google is not the only search tool. This workshop looks at recent developments at Google and the alternatives, especially the new kids on the block and Web 2.0 'stuff'.Karen Blakeman will take you through the best of the search engine world and highlight how they can be used to significantly improve your results. By the end of the day, participants will have a vital toolkit to help them search more effectively, including key search tools, comparisons, top tips and essential search techniques.Topics to be covered include: different types of search tools and how they work making the most of Google and new features alternatives to Google advanced search techniques to help you track down the so-called "hidden web" image, audio, video and news blogs, RSS, wikis and Web 2.0 resources setting up your customised search engine tracking down pages that have disappeared. Delegates will have ample opportunity to test out advanced search techniques and to compare different search engines. A significant part of the day will be taken up with practical sessions; exercises will be provided but delegates are free to try out searches of their own.This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience. The techniques and approaches covered can be applied to all subject areas. (Source: CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:28:54 +0100 673496 http://www.lisnews.org/international_conference_academic_libraries_0 The University of Delhi in India is organising an International Conference on Academic Libraries from October 5 to 8, 2009. For details please view the site: http://library.du.ac.in/ocs (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:06:06 +0100 673885 http://lisnews.org/international_conference_academic_libraries_0 The University of Delhi in India is organising an International Conference on Academic Libraries from October 5 to 8, 2009. For details please view the site: http://library.du.ac.in/ocs (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:06:06 +0100 673418 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/455860542/listen-lisnewsorg-podcast-episode-48.html LISTen: The LISNews.org Podcast - Episode #48 : "This week's episode is a brief one. After the run down of stories you might have missed, the program's engineer presents another installment of Tech for Techies. In the fourteenth installment of that segment, the engineer gives a brief overview of how to record audio at conferences and conventions. A lighter commentary is presented touching upon the need for authority control in today's increasingly interconnected world. The wrap-up contains a unique announcement". Previous Podcasts can be found here (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:57:26 +0100 673599 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=My_first_PaLA_Annual_Conference-_%AB_Library_Scenester Academic Library Reorganization - The first library (Villanova University) changed "departments" to "teams" and replaced "reference" with "academic (Source: pligg - all) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:00:18 +0100 673380 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/workshop-for-icsa.html Two weeks ago I delivered a workshop on academic writing for a group of researchers in education at the Mazandaran University. The workshop was held in conjunction with the eighth annual conference of the Iranian Curriculum Studies Association. At the last day of the conference, I also made a speech about the invisible web for the members of the ICT SIG of the association. In general, it was a great chance for me to meet people from other areas and discuss my interdisciplinary interests with them. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674042 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/knowledge-management-and-information.html Irandoc and ILISA are going to run their first joint conference in 14 April 2009 to explore the links between Knowledge Management and Information Science. The conference title is "Knowledge Management and Information Science: Links and Interactions" and I am a member its scientific committee. More information on the conference's theme and its topics will appear here soon. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674040 http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/17112008104810AMSLKLJN.htm The 97th session of the General Conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization. The text is available in several languages on the ILO website, and has now been issued as a UN document (A/63/538-E/2009/4). According to the ... (Source: UN Pulse | A Service/Blog of the United Nations Library) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673841 http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/17112008113650AMMVAMH5.htm The report of the first Global Conference on Agro-industries, held in New Delhi from 8-11 April 2008 has been released (full-text, pdf, 1.3MB). The Global Agro-Industries Forum (GAIF) is jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Indus... (Source: UN Pulse | A Service/Blog of the United Nations Library) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673839 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PegasusLibrarian/~3/456242855/whatever-happened-to-library-blogs.html Something's shifted. Maybe it's just that I've shifted. My life has become almost unrecognizable compared to a year ago, so I wouldn't rule this possibility out just yet. But even so, I'm inclined to think that the landscape and function of librarians' blogs is in the process of a transformation.Two years ago, I mentioned that participating in the biblioblogosphere was like attending a conference every day. A year ago, a good portion of my evenings were spent reading, thinking about, and responding to other librarians' blogs. This was what kept me feeling connected to the larger world of librarianship. This was what made me feel useful beyond my own patron community. And this was a major source of contact with librarians whom I had come to regard as friends.But lately, I wake up to find that my RSS aggregator has very few new posts from this once-prolific core of librarian bloggers, and I certainly haven't been contributing to anyone's aggregator overload recently. Not by a long stretch.In my darker moments, I worry that we're a little bit burned out, or that we've given up trying to change the world by weighing in on issues large and small. But while there may be some of this at work, I think it has more to do with a shift in communication patterns. Two years ago, blogs provided a venue for people's carefully thought-out ideas as well as for their off-the-cuff thoughts, gut reactions, and general banter. In this way, they were like the sessions and the between- and after-session banter at a conference. Today I think that blogs have begun to take on the more focused character of the actual sessions at a conference while places like Twitter and FriendFeed have become the venue for the between-and after-session banter. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673651 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/456318270/protesting-us-bishops-decision-to.html Jeffrey Tucker, A Serious Issue on the Revised Grail Psalter, New Liturgical Movement, November 16, 2008.  Excerpt: Last week, CNS [Catholic News Service] reported that the USCCB [U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops] has voted in favor of incorporating into the English translation of the Mass the "Revised Grail Psalter," and there is speculation that this translation will become the universal Psalter in the English-speaking world.... [A comment on Tucker's blog pointed out] the emerging problem: The copyright on the new psalter is held jointly by the Conception Abbey and The Grail. GIA Publications, Inc., is proud to serve as the worldwide agent and pledges to administer the rights in an efficient and impartial manner. The first publication of the new text will occur in the form of a book containing the complete text and will be available as soon as the formal imprimatur is received. Think of what this means. A private, commercial publisher --whose budget and financial dealings is entirely hidden from public view because it is said to be a religious nonprofit-- has struck a deal with another huge institution that has the power to mandate the text that all Catholics in the United States use at Mass. This private publisher will control the rights to use the text, charging whatever price they deem suitable and preventing independent composers from setting the Psalms for Mass.... [I]t is not too early to raise alarm bells about what this new-found power of GIA could portend. 2. All money to pay the royalty fees will be paid by Catholic parishes and other publishers, which raises barriers to entry into the market and gives a monopolistic privilege to GIA over everyone else. The money paid for these royalties comes directly out of the pockets of faithful Catholics in the pews, who will be charged money just for the privilege of singing the Psalms.... 4. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673612 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/456507718/voting-for-best-oa-content-in.html The blog Savage Minds is now accepting votes for the best OA content in anthropology, with categories for best blog, best journal, and best digital miscellany. (We previously posted the call for nominations.) Winners will be announced at the American Anthropological Association conference this weekend. (Source: Open Access News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673608 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/456521909/more-blog-notes-on-berlin-6-conference.html Cornelius Puschmann has posted a round-up of blog notes on the Berlin 6 Conference (Düsseldorf, November 11-13, 2008). See especially the posts by Kaitlin Thaney (which we posted previously), Cornelius Puschmann, Mark Liberman, and Robert Forkel. (Source: Open Access News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673607 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/456492230/004706.php Google and Adobe today reached some official detente on measurement of "stuff that happens inside the world of Flash", (my own attempt at summarizing this Google announcement.) Recall that earlier Google announced it was crawling PDFs and then Flash, this is one more step toward what I think may come - Google and Adobe uniting as a company against Microsoft. Yes, you heard that right. But on a meta level, it makes a lot of sense. From announcement: Today, at the Adobe MAX Conference in San Francisco, in a joint collaboration with our friends at Adobe and a few ace third party developers, we announced a simplified solution for tracking Flash content for everyone, called Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe Flash. Working at Google over the past couple of years, I've had the opportunity to work with with many of our top clients to implement Google Analytics, who have found the power to identify and analyze trends on their web sites highly useful. But, one of the most common implementation challenges has been tracking Flash content on their pages. In the past, Flash tracking was not provided out of the box, and every implementation had to be customized. Moreover, there was a lack of standards, and new developers who tracked Flash had to create their own processes to get it working. With this launch, tracking your Flash content has never been simpler Adobe market cap: $12.1bb Google market cap: $94.5bb (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673597 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/13248 Colleagues/ Since launching The Green Library blog nearly a month ago I have added a number of significant news items which I believe/hope will be of interest: The Green Library blog is devoted to documenting significant activities, events, literature, and projects that focus on " ... increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources - energy, water, and materials - while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal" of and by libraries. Social Network: The Green Library Facebook Group Established Conference: Greening Libraries => Greener Communities Conference | October 31 2008 Library/New York: The Bronx Library Center - A Leading Example Of An Environmentally Responsible Building Article: Green Library Design And Evaluation: The Taipei Public Library, Taiwan Conference: Library Journal 4th Design Institute, December 2008, Hartford, Connecticut Resou (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673561 http://www.traffick.com/2008/11/ses-chicago-is-jessica-bowmans-favorite.asp Jessica Bowman, an in-house SEO expert who has built in-house SEO programs at Yahoo and Enterprise Rent-a-Car, will be back to join attendees and fellow speaking alumni for this year's Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference.Recently Jessica was overheard telling friends that SES Chicago is her favorite SES. We caught up with Jessica to get to the bottom of this. We also asked Jessica for a few other thoughts and pointers about conference life and large-organization SEO.Traffick: Jessica, you've been overheard stating that SES Chicago is your favorite SES conference of all! I don't hear that so much. People may mention San Jose because of the great weather and the Google Dance, or New York or London because, well, they're New York and London. Me, I have a bunch of reasons to prefer SES Toronto above any other. But Chicago?!? My Page Zero posse and I have a lot of fond memories of that conference to be sure, but maybe you can share your reasons for liking this one the best?J.B.: It's my favorite event because it's more intimate than all of the other shows. The show is at the same location as the conference hotel, so you don't have to go out in the cold, and you can sneak a few winks during lunch if you need them. Because of this, everyone is condensed within the Hilton, which makes constant opportunities for interaction. And, there are two great bars where everyone congregates in the evenings where you can talk more candidly and interact with the speakers you saw during the day.Traffick: Other than eating a piece of the giant candy Christmas decoration in the Hilton lobby and getting ill, I have one SES Chicago memory (non content related) that really stands out: Buddy Guy himself getting up to do a number at his blues club (Buddy Guy's). Sample lyrics: "Hey all you Yahoo people, why don't you call me on the phone..." Anyway. Do you have any spectacular memories?J.B. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673465 http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2008/11/16/report-and-presentations-from-alliance-for-permanent-access-to-the-records-of-science-2008-conference/ Presentations and a conference report from the Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science 2008 Conference are now available. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673436 http://www.lisnews.org/audio/download/31941/LISTen-48.mp3 This week's episode is a brief one. After the run down of stories you might have missed, the program's engineer presents another installment of Tech for Techies. In the fourteenth installment of that segment, the engineer gives a brief overview of how to record audio at conferences and conventions. A lighter commentary is presented touching upon the need for authority control in today's increasingly interconnected world. The wrap-up contains a unique announcement. There is no video planned for this week. Related links: DTV Transition Site Presidential Transition Site US Government Portal BlogWorldExpo (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:32:52 +0100 673888 http://lisnews.org/audio/download/31941/LISTen-48.mp3 This week's episode is a brief one. After the run down of stories you might have missed, the program's engineer presents another installment of Tech for Techies. In the fourteenth installment of that segment, the engineer gives a brief overview of how to record audio at conferences and conventions. A lighter commentary is presented touching upon the need for authority control in today's increasingly interconnected world. The wrap-up contains a unique announcement. There is no video planned for this week. Related links: DTV Transition Site Presidential Transition Site US Government Portal BlogWorldExpo (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:32:52 +0100 673368 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=555 I didn’t come to Austin to get an archival jolt from a digital artists’ book. I’ve been at the Ransom Center this weekend attending a conference on literary archives and writers’ papers, “Creating a Usable Past.” I have never seen William Gibson’s 1992 artists’ book, one evidently well-known on the Internet. The cataloging notes say Agrippa has some photosensitive engravings and a disk holding the poem, “which may be displayed on a computer screen only once, and then is irretrievably encrypted.” Matt Kirschenbaum, professor at MITH, hacked the code of Agrippa and played it for us on a Mac emulator. Matt tells us his work will be up on the web in six weeks or so. I was having something akin to Ted Bishop’s experience with the symptoms of archive fever. Ted is a Virginia Woolf scholar. In Riding with Rilke he describes the “jolt” of reading Woolf’s suicide letter. Yesterday morning the audience at the august Ransom Center was reading Agrippa on the big screen. The Mac emulator made it feel a bit like I was reading it in 1992. Back in 1992 I don’t think I knew what an artists’ book was. Three of UT’s undergraduates have been blogging the conference at flairforarchives. (Source: hangingtogether.org) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:55:20 +0100 673405 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/455439966/ Presentations and a conference report from the Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science 2008 Conference are now available. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:14:08 +0100 673397 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/infoisland/~3/455385559/ The first college fair on InfoIsland today was a great event! Thanks to Alice Burgess, Abbey Zenith, speakers (Stone Semyorka, Robby Kowalski, Sage Duncan, Vic Michalak, and Pathfinder Linden), colleges, attendees, and especially for the use of Info Island that made this all a great success. There was a lot of great networking and I learned some great tips on selling the idea of using Second Life to administrators including that we’re actually saving them money!! (thanks Sage!) Presentations also included information on taking the leap of signing up for a course being taught in SL and what the benefits are (interaction, meeting people from all over the world, trying a different medium for collaboration and presentation, etc.). Pathfinder graciously attended and spoke about several initiatives Linden Lab is doing to help support educators. -features such as ‘admin accounts’ -more reliable regAPI -’behind the firewall’ solutions from M Linden’s talk at a previous conference Thank you Pathfinder, Claudia, and other Lindens! Presentation here: pathfinder-presentation. Watch this site for further posts on the fair including machinima! Check out Flickr with the tag “infoislandcollegefair2008″ for photos. (Source: InfoIsland.org) Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:51:05 +0100 674337 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/454954149/987-search-engine-news-wrap-ip-november-16.html So much to read and so little time. It’s good Pandia is doing all the reading for you! Here are some of the essential search engine news articles from this week: For Yahoo’s CEO, News Keeps Getting Worse Yang made no concessions to the growing chorus of angry investors and media pundits calling for his ouster at a Web industry conference in London this week. (Reuters Nov 14 2008) Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network! US Live.com is now a social network, too, pulling in activity information and content from around the web. (TechCrunch Nov 12 2008) Could a Social Twist Brings Good Tidings to Microsoft’s Live Service? The new Microsoft Live Service portal will bring together Windows Live Messenger and an upgraded Hotmail, Windows Live Group, photo gallery, toolbar, calendar… (SE Journal Nov 13 2008) Would an Apple Google Split Mean an Apple Yahoo Acquisition? Apple may be working on their own search engine technology and search advertising format (SE Journal Nov 13 2008) The next step in search Microsoft on the the new the Live Search API for publishers and web developers. (Live Search blog Nov 13 2008) Google Site Search gets more demanding On-Demand Indexing is like a turbocharger for Google Site Search, ensuring that your newest pages appear in search results on your website fast. (Google Blog Nov 13 2008) Will Disney or Apple Buy Yahoo Before Microsoft Does? Disney buying Yahoo is much more hairbrained of an idea than Apple buying Yahoo. (SE Journal Nov 13 2008) Microsoft Opens the Live Search API to the Public On the release of the Live Search API which is also known as Project Silk Road. (SE Journal Nov 13 2008) Microsoft Live Search Cashback Program Showing Positive Results 20 of the top 50 online retailers in the U.S. and 140 of Internet Retailer’s Top 500 are now into the Live Search cashback program. ... Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:57:52 +0100 673445 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/454912869/ What if your iPod or Touch screen could display the same view as on your PC or Mac? Including even programs such as Mobipocket that will work on a PC but not the Apple gizmos? I can’t promise that the free Mocha VNC Lite app for the iPhone and iPod will allow such miracles. But maybe some kind soul can at least try—and share the results with us. Lite does not just provide the desktop view, it also offers at least right mouse-button support. Thwarted by clash with Vista So why haven’t I tested Mocha VNC Lite on my HP machine? Because, alas, VNC Lite needs a VNC server on the desktop, and the free versions of the required software don’t get along well with Vista. Could this be my punishment for the Faustian deal I made when I bought a Vista-OS desktop? VNC server info For the desktop end of the WiFi link, compatible software comes with the Mac’s OS X Software and free versions apparently exist for Windows and Linux. By the way, a 3G connection will also work. So if my hunch is correct, you just might be able to access your desktop e-library from anywhere with your iPhone. And speaking of Mobi… As for Mobipocket running on iPhone or Touch itself, does anyone have an update? Is an iPhone/Touch version of Mobipocket for the iPhone still due by the end of the year, as was suggested at the IDPF conference last spring? Mobi has wonderful features. But its delayed appearance on the iPhone reminds us of one more negative of DRMed proprietary formats. The Stanza iPhone app can read Mobi, imperfectly, but not the “protected” variety. Related: Gizmodo’s  20 essential iPhone Apps, through which I discovered VNC Lite. Technorati Tags: Mocha VNC Lite,VNC,VNC Lite (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:47:55 +0100 673286 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=What_is_up_with_me_Some_talks_and_notes- I just got back from Albany, New York where I was a presenter at Albany Public’s fifth annual Reader’s Advisory Conference. It was a fun (Source: pligg - all) Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:00:15 +0100 673128 http://www.roselle.lib.il.us/Newsletter/2008/11/barack-obama-on-libraries.html "More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward. . . . ."Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts."And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good."--President-elect Barack Obama in a speech at the American Library Association annual conference in June 2005. (as seen in Shelf Awareness, 11/10/08) (Source: What's New @ Roselle Public Library) Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673822 http://edwards.orcas.net/blog/archives/000432.html I've been meaning to blog about this for a while, but I've fallen out of the habit, unfortunately. Nonetheless, I had to blog about this ... I re-joined CLA (California Library Association). Registered for the Annual Conference in San Jose. Then, earlier today, I gave my first conference presentation. "Privacy Concerns of Social Networking" was the title I thought up at the time when I submitted the proposal to talk about the issue of online information and Web 2.0. I had 45 minutes during a prominent lunchtime lecture, but people showed up and even stayed. I took what would be considered a hard-line stance: there are myriad privacy issues with social networking, it's not the end of privacy and libraries/librarians have a role to play in pushing back against Yes, I believe it. But it's the start of a conversation (I hope!) and I don't have solutions. I have suggestions, though ... look & see (PDF). So ... the presentation was ... okay. I knew what I wanted to say, I didn't have the best flow with the slides, but I didn't keep my head in my notes and I made eye contact. Interesting comment section (someone thought that privacy as we know it is dead, one mentioned the USA PATRIOT Act and one asked about age verification practices (in connection with COPPA). I had an attack of flop sweat and forgot my words on occasion, but I'm told that it was otherwise a good job. But then my day got even better when I HAD LUNCH WITH ZOIA HORN!!! *squeeing and jumping around commences* It was lovely. She is lovely and as the young people used to say, quite fierce. Truly an honour and pleasure to talk with her and hear her story from her lips. Truly excellent day. (Source: Confessions of a Mad Librarian) Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673490 http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/019825.html Press release: "The nation’s mayors reiterated their call for a MainStreet Stimulus package in the lameduck Congress by releasing the... (Source: beSpacific) Sun, 16 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673318 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2542/what-is-up-with-me-some-talks-and-notes/ I just got back from Albany, New York where I was a presenter at Albany Public’s fifth annual Reader’s Advisory Conference. It was a fun day. I’m a night owl so I missed Nora Rawlinson’s talk in the morning. She runs the website EarlyWord which is a nifty blog+more about publishing and libraries. My talk was about Library 2.0 and what tools and tips there are in there for Reader’s Advisory. I’ve been talking about 2.0 stuff for a while but I put together a whole new talk from the ground up just so I could get current links, examples and maybe some snappier slides. I’ve been using Keynote for more of my talks lately which allows me to have versions available for people in Keynote, PDF and PowerPoint formats. Anyone who wants to grab a copy of the talk, please feel free. I also uploaded a hyperlinked version of my Colorado Association of Libraries talk along with the slides so people can follow along and see what I was talking about. Now that that’s all taken care of, I can say that my public speaking for 2008 is officially over except for some lingering receipts and invoicing. I really tried to push myself this year to say “Yes.” to as many people as possible and meet as many librarians as I could. It was at times totally exhausting, incredibly rewarding and, as always a huge learning experience. Next year I’ll be doing probably slightly less of the same as I help a local library here with their automation project and spend more time with my boyfriend and many good books. I will be at the Superconference and Computers in Libraries, among other places, so I’m sure you’ll be seeing me around. Thanks to everyone who has ever been an audience member, a conference coordinator or an agreeable boss or co-worker as I’ve been doing all this stuff. ... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:06:45 +0100 672992 http://teenlibrarianreads.blogspot.com/2008/11/rules-by-cynthia-lord.html After hearing the author of this book speak at the New England Library Association conference last month, I really wanted to read this book and I was not disappointed. Cynthia Lord draws on her life experience as the mother of two children, one of whom is autistic, to write a novel written from the point of view of the older sister with an autistic brother. And it could be any sibling with special needs and how that demands more of her parents' attention, makes her feel self-conscious but also protective of her brother. This is a very satisfying story and I look forward to suggesting it to the readers here at the library.In the Teen Zone (Source: in the teen zone) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673113 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/454186947/for-new-yorkers-budget-cuts-to-further.html Earlier this week, I posted about the legislative session at the New York Library Association Annual Conference. On Wednesday, Governor Paterson announced proposed additional cuts in the current NYS budget. The proposal includes an additional $20 million cut in library aid, on top of the cuts that have already been made. If this is adopted, library aid will have been cut 22% this year. (It should be noted that libraries in NYS are already underfunded.) This reportedly will roll-back state funding for libraries to the level in 1993 (15 years ago). This is occurring when library use is increasing (due to the recession) and cost of library resources continues to increase. As has been repeated many times recently, libraries provide free access to information, but libraries are not free. There is a cost to running them and ensuring that they are meeting the needs of their patrons.And while we might think that this cut will impact only public libraries, keep in mind that many non-public libraries in the state rely on resources that are made available to all New Yorkers. This cut will impact knowledge-seeker in the State.For more information on the proposed cut and its impact, go to the NYLA web site.BTW many digitization programs receive funding through local and national grants. Are budgets tighten, we should expect that the amount of grants funds available for these programs will tighten, too.Technorati tags: Regents, New York State, NYS, RAC, NYLA2008This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673068 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GovernmentNewsForMontana/~3/454248011/2009-health-care-reform-proposal.html From Senator Baucus's press release: "At a press conference on Capitol Hill today newly re-elected Montana U.S. Senator Max Baucus unveiled an 89-page health care reform blueprint, which outlines a path to quality, affordable health care for all Montanans and Americans."The press release on the Senator's website summarizes the health care proposal. The full proposal, "Call To Action: Health Reform 2009," is posted on the Senate Finance Committee website.Source: Dennison, M. (13 Nov. 2008). "Baucus unveils health care reform proposal." Missoulian. A1. (Source: Government News for Montana) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673028 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2008/11/virtual-worlds.html The discussions continue regularly on Infolit iSchool in Second Life (SL), the virtual world. Most recently, Robin Ashford (a librarian from the USA, Robin Mochi in SL) led a discussion about the Academic librarian in Second Life. The picture show the assembled people, mainly from the UK and USA. She was speaking, and other people were using text chat: there is a transcript of the chat here : http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=339. There was a lively discussion so although you don't get most of Robin's comments, there are other observations you might find interesting. Robin recently did a presentation at a conference in SL and her powerpoint is here: http://www.slideshare.net/RobinAshford/academic-librarian-in-second-life-presentationThe previous week, a Professor in the School of Education here at Sheffield University (Jackie Marsh, Jackie Darkstone in SL) gave a talk on Out of school play in online virtual worlds and the implications for literacy learning (6th November 2008). Her blog is here: http://digitalbeginnings.blogspot.com/ She has done research looking at how young children are using virtual worlds, particularly Club Penguin. She was speaking in chat, and the chatlog is here: http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=337Finally, there was an exploration of Infolit iSchool (our island) last week. If you can get into SL, there is a notecard with landmarks and commentary here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/128/224/22/ and the text of the notecard is on the wiki here http://infolitischool.pbwiki.com/An+exploration+of+the+island (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672960 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2008/11/for-new-yorkers-budget-cuts-to-further.html Earlier this week, I posted about the legislative session at the New York Library Association Annual Conference. On Wednesday, Governor Paterson announced proposed additional cuts in the current NYS budget. The proposal includes an additional $20 million cut in library aid, on top of the cuts that have already been made. If this is adopted, library aid will have been cut 22% this year. (It should be noted that libraries in NYS are already underfunded.) This reportedly will roll-back state funding for libraries to the level in 1993 (15 years ago). This is occurring when library use is increasing (due to the recession) and cost of library resources continues to increase. As has been repeated many times recently, libraries provide free access to information, but libraries are not free. There is a cost to running them and ensuring that they are meeting the needs of their patrons.And while we might think that this cut will impact only public libraries, keep in mind that many non-public libraries in the state rely on resources that are made available to all New Yorkers. This cut will impact knowledge-seeker in the State.For more information on the proposed cut and its impact, go to the NYLA web site.BTW many digitization programs receive funding through local and national grants. Are budgets tighten, we should expect that the amount of grants funds available for these programs will tighten, too.Technorati tags: Regents, New York State, NYS, RAC, NYLA2008This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672936 http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2008/11/assorted_cool_s.html A few things have been happening at SLA where I am still president through year end. I encourage you to check out the SLA website (and join SLA) but I thought I'd highlight a few things today. The SLA Salary Survey was just released and we're trying to get the word out. Here's a link to the SLA Blog post about it: http://slablogger.typepad.com/sla_blog/2008/11/2008-sla-salary.htmlOf course there's a free component as well as the full report for a fee. Also, check out the SLA Information Center Connections blog (esp. the posts on value). The librarian's librarians point to some cool stuff and it's worth subscribing to. http://slaconnections.typepad.com/info_center_blog/ They also manage a bunch of RSS feeds for members from NewsGator and Factiva on LIS issues that are very cool. And 2009 is SLA's Centennial! The SLA Centennial Commission announced the launch of the SLA Centennial Celebration Web site, the official gateway to celebrations for the 2009 SLA Centennial! One hundred years later, SLA continues to promote that spirit of knowledge sharing among information professionals and our value to the global information and knowledge based economy.. It is time to start getting excited for an amazing SLA Centennial Celebration in 2009! The DC annual conference promises to be spectacular. Not sure how to get your own celebration underway? How about getting started on your entry for the SLA Centennial Video Contest!?! Also we have the cool fact that SLA Granted Observer Status in WIPO. Being granted observer status to meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO grants SLA an important voice in intellectual property and provides an additional forum for advocacy. More here. SLA is also participating in executive discussion at hte SIIA, one of the most influential industry associations as well as being invited to the Google D.C. ... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:29:48 +0100 673195 http://infoblog.infopeople.org/2008/11/infopeople_at_cla_minidemos_an.php If good things really do come in small packages, attendees at the California Library Association 2008 Conference and Exhibition in San Jose are going to find plenty of treasures through the Infopeople Mini-Demo sessions which begin this evening and continue through Sunday afternoon (November 16, 2008). While many of us extol the virtues of learning sessions which include preparatory time and extensive follow-up, we also find a great deal of charm and useful information in these brief sessions which bring trainers and learners together for 10-minute tip-laden teasers that cover a variety of topics. It’s an enticing format for trainers and learners alike, and gives all of us food for thought in how we approach our own training-teaching-learning experiences. With more than four dozen time slots filled with mini-demos and more than two dozen presenters scheduled, there is something for nearly everyone working in libraries. Trainers will see plenty of examples of how to break their material into concise and effective sessions from Infopeople presenters including Linda Demmers, Beth Gallaway; Cheryl Gould; George Needham and Joan Frye Williams; and Mary Ross as well as State Librarian Susan Hildreth and Deputy State Librarian Stacey Aldrich. Learners, at the same time, will be able to pick and choose from a variety of topics including spontaneous programming; planning book clubs; using library mashups; what open source software can offer libraries; bringing creativity to the workplace; creating exciting and memorable user experiences with minimal expenditures; and strategic positions for libraries in today’s changing environment. Those of us used to much more in-depth presentations stand to learn a lot from these sessions, and the sessions promise to be fun as well. All events will be held in Infopeople’s space with the Exhibitors’ Area (Booths 410, 411, and 511). (Source: Infoblog) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:59:59 +0100 672619 http://libraryassessment.info/?p=183 5th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference, to be held in Stockholm, Sweden June 29-July 3, 2009. Sweden, and the Karolinska Institutet University Library, invites you to the 5th Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference, in Stockholm, Sweden, June 29th – July 3rd 2009. As library practitioners and academics, we constantly face the challenge to establish the effectiveness of the services we design, the services we advocate, the services we provide. Whether this challenge occurs within a climate of expansion, of reaffirmation or of survival we have a professional responsibility to demonstrate to our users, our managers, our colleagues and our other stakeholders that we remain in touch with the evidence base for library and information practice. (Source: libraryassessment.info) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:57:46 +0100 672571 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/davidleeking/~5/453161951/ssplayer2.swf I just finished a webcast presentation for the SirsiDynix Institute titled Tinkering in the Techie Toybox: Staying on Top of Consumer Technology. As promised, here are some links mentioned in the presentation: Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library’s Techie Toybox - what we originally purchased Princeton Public Library’s Gadget Garage More info on Santa Cruz Public Libraries Technology Petting Zoo More info on Massachusetts Library Association’s Technology Petting Zoo: request for volunteers and the conference report WebJunction’s Creating a Technology Petting Zoo Webinar Recap What’s in Your Bag group on Flickr And a copy of my slides (SirsiDynix recorded the presentation and will be posting that, probably within the next week or so). Tinkering in the Techie Toybox: Staying on Top of Consumer Technology View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: consumer technology) Share: (Source: David Lee King) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:28:08 +0100 672982 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=call_for_proposals_for_nrmig_program_at_&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 ALCTS NRMIG (Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group) invites your proposal to participate in a program on workflow tools for digital libraries, to take place at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, July 9-15, 2009. Please note that the deadline to submit a proposal has been extended to Friday November 21st. With the increasing volume of digital content that libraries are creating and maintaining, long-term data curation is emerging as a key consideration for the profession. In order to support data preservation and re-use on a local level, as well as facilitate resource sharing, library professionals need practical tools to help them efficiently manage large volumes of data over time. What types of tools and techniques do you utilize to automate the creation and maintenance of metadata? Presentations should focus on current practices and new technologies, and include concrete demonstrations and/or examples of automated workflow tools and techniques employed at a local level or in collaborative endeavors. Specific implementations may cover a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: -Digital preservation of assets and collections -Data production, or validation of metadata, to comply with a particular schema or protocol -Data migration / interoperability across systems or applications -Interoperability, data harvesting, e.g., for resource sharing -Data production in distributed environments -Open source or proprietary software tools -Tips or techniques for working with particular standards and protocols The program forum will be a panel, in which each participant has from 20-30 minutes to present, followed by a Q & A period at the end of the program. To submit a proposal for presentation, please email a brief description of your proposed topic to Joanna Burgess at burgessj@reed.edu by November 21, 2008. (Source: ALA Weblog Service) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:24:06 +0100 672468 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2008/11/cfp-qualitative-and-quantitative.html CFP: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2009)You are kindly invited to participate in the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2009), Chania, Crete, Greece, 26-29 of May, 2009.The conference expands the main theme and presentations given 10 years earlier in the successful IATUL 1999 conference, organizer Dr. Anthi Katsirikou then director of the library of Technical University of Crete.The theme of the 20th IATUL 1999 conference in Chania was the "The Future of Libraries in Human Communication". The forthcoming QQML 2009 Conference will focus in an expanded theme covering Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries.QQML2009 is organized under the umbrella of ASMDA International Society organizing conferences on data analysis from 1981Qualitative and Quantitative Methods (QQM) are proved more and more popular tools for Librarians, because of their usefulness to the everyday professional life. QQM aim to the assessment and improvement of the services, to the measurement of the functional effectiveness and efficiency. QQM are the mean to make decisions on fund allocation and financial alternatives. Librarians use also QQM in order to determine why and when their users appreciate their services. This is the start point of the innovation involvement and the ongoing procedure of the excellent performance. Systematic development of quality management in libraries requires a detailed framework, including the quality management standards, the measurement indicators, the self-appraisal schedules and the operational rules. These standards are practice-oriented tools and a benchmarking result. Their basic function is to express responsibly the customer (library user) -supplier (library services) relationship and provide a systematic approach to the continuous change onto excellence. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:12:00 +0100 672472 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2008/11/cfp-nrmig-ala-annual-09-program-on.html CFP: NRMIG ALA Annual 09 Program on Workflow Tools for Automating Metadata Creation and MaintenanceALCTS NRMIG (Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group) invites your proposal to participate in a program on workflow tools for digital libraries, to take place at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, July 9-15, 2009.With the increasing volume of digital content that libraries are creating and maintaining, long-term data curation is emerging as a key consideration for the profession. In order to support data preservation and re-use on a local level, as well as facilitate resource sharing, library professionals need practical tools to help them efficiently manage large volumes of data over time. What types of tools and techniques do you utilize to automate the creation and maintenance of metadata?Presentations should focus on current practices and new technologies, and include concrete demonstrations and/or examples of automated workflow tools and techniques employed at a local level or in collaborative endeavors. Specific implementations may cover a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:-Digital preservation of assets and collections-Data production, or validation of metadata, to comply with a particular schema or protocol-Data migration / interoperability across systems or applications-Interoperability, data harvesting, e.g., for resource sharing-Data production in distributed environments-Open source or proprietary software tools-Tips or techniques for working with particular standards and protocolsThe program forum will be a panel, in which each participant has from 20-30 minutes to present, followed by a Q & A period at the end of the program. To submit a proposal for presentation, please email a brief description of your proposed topic to Joanna Burgess at burgessj@reed.edu by November 21, 2008. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:02:00 +0100 672473 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/452864519/ O’Reilly’s annual Tools of Change Conference will be held in New York on February 9 - 11. David and I covered the conference last year for you here on TeleRead, and we will be doing the same thing again. David and Joe Wikert, an O’Reilly executive who regularly appears in the TeleBlog, will be on an e-book panel. Other participants will be CEO Russell Wilcox of E Ink and writer-publisher April Hamilton, who herself has written for TeleRead. The moderator will be Mark Coker of Smashwords. Here is the blurb: The Rise of E-BooksMark Coker (Smashwords, Inc.), Joe Wikert (O’Reilly Media, Inc.), April Hamilton (April Hamilton), David Rothman (TeleRead.org), Russell Wilcox (E Ink).eBooks, written off just a few years ago as a massive failure, are on the rise again. According to the latest industry data, ebooks are the fastest growing segment in an otherwise stagnant trade book industry. This panel discussion, moderated by Mark Coker, will cover the latest trends in the ebook business and provide publishers actionable strategies to profit from the rise of ebooks. Technorati Tags: O’Reilly,Tools of Change (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:00:26 +0100 672564 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/lint/~3/452863136/ Yes, its nearly 15 months away, but its time to start thinking about VALA 2010.  The theme for this must-be-at-conference in 2010 is Connections. Content. Conversation. The invitation is out for interested persons “to submit abstracts relating to the use of information and communications technology for connecting, content and conversations across the galleries, libraries, archives and museum sectors.” For further information, check out the VALA 2010 website. It may be over a year away, but I’m very much looking forward to it and would love to hear some great new presentations, from familiar faces and new ones alike.  So get thinking, I’m sure there are projects in your workplace that the library world needs to hear about and VALA is potentially the place for that to happen. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:58:22 +0100 672776 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=MLA_2008_Conference_Report_%AB_Detroit_Area_Library_Network Tech Tools for Reference: a Public and Academic Library Perspective - This was a very informative presentation about all kinds of useful online tools (Source: pligg - all) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:20 +0100 672357 http://infoblog.infopeople.org/2008/11/infopeople_at_cla_john_ward_an.php John Ward, familiar to longtime Infoblog readers from previous postings about his work, wants to leave us with a vision. And if you’re in San Jose this weekend for Infopeople “Master Speaker” series events at the California Library Association 2008 Conference and Exhibition, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to share and help construct that vision. Ward, as a graphic facilitator, records meetings and other events—but not in a text-based way: “I won’t be interacting with the speaker or the audience. I’ll be listening hard, and whenever I hear anything important come down, I’ll find a few words and an image and get it up on the wall…It’s not a recording process, it’s a capturing process,” he explained. What Ward and other graphic facilitators capture are simple, memorable images and a few key words. Combining these simple elements, they produce a finished mural on paper as the event they are capturing ends; printed copies of those murals are made accessible to participants and serve to create a visual reminder of events which otherwise might quickly fade from memory. The process will be on display to conference attendees throughout the weekend. Ward himself will provide a brief explanation of how the process works in a session which begins on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. in the San Jose Conference Center, Ballroom A, and will invite attendees to join him in graphically recording what they are experiencing. The mural-in-progress will remain on display for more contributions, and additional murals will be created by Ward as he captures presentations by Daniel Pink Saturday afternoon and William Crossman Sunday afternoon. What attendees will be left with is a cohesive exercise is creatively combining words and imagery as they interact with Ward and two master speakers whose presentations themselves are meant to inspire us all to think beyond the constraints which we usually create for ourselves. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:40:16 +0100 672331 http://www.slaw.ca/2008/11/14/playing-the-identity-card-surveillance-security-and-identification-in-global-perspective/ On Monday, November 17, 2008  Dr. Colin J. Bennett, Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, will be speaking at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto about identity cards in Canada.  Details here and in the full press release below the fold. PRESS RELEASE For immediate release – November 13, 2008 HOW CANADIAN IDENTITY CARDS STACK UP (Toronto, ON) — Canada’s identity cards, such as Ontario’s proposed Enhanced Driver’s Licence, may help citizens prove “who we are,” but also bring up privacy, civil liberties and human rights concerns. How do other countries handle authentication and surveillance? These issues will be explored by Political Science Professor, Colin J. Bennett, at an “Identity, Privacy and Security Initiative (IPSI)” lecture at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, at noon on Monday, November 17. His talk will be based on the findings of his just published book, “Playing the Identity Card: Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective,” (with co-editor David Lyon). The authors look into a variety of identity card systems around the world, summarizing how different factors can affect the use of ID cards by the government to manage new technological changes, and shape its application to desirable or undesirable results, and how these trends could apply to Canada. Media are invited to attend the lecture, or arrange for a one-on-one interview. The lecture will be held at the Claude Bissell Building (140 St. George Street), in Room 728, from noon to 1:00 pm, followed by a question and answer period. There is no charge and everyone is welcome. Since 1986, Dr. Bennett has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria where he is now Chair. He has published numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, as well as written books on the topic of surveillance technologies and privacy protection policies. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:30:28 +0100 672701 http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2008/11/search_engine_o.html I often talk about how the main search engines determine the ranking of search results on their displays. It's worth reading these 'official' docs and resources from Google. Google's SEO Starter Guide "Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 11:55 AM Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, "What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?" There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web, so much that it can be intimidating for newer webmasters or those unfamiliar with the topic. We thought it'd be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites' crawlability and indexing. Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more) would apply to webmasters of all experience levels and sites of all sizes and types. Throughout the guide, we also worked in many illustrations, pitfalls to avoid, and links to other resources that help expand our explanation of the topics. We plan on updating the guide at regular intervals with new optimization suggestions and to keep the technical advice current. So, the next time we get the question, "I'm new to SEO, how do I improve my site?", we can say, "Well, here's a list of best practices that we use inside Google that you might want to check out. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672494 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/11/13/samhsa-news-highlights-resources-for-veterans/ SAMHSA News Highlights Resources for Veterans The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released the latest issue of the Agency’s newsletter that highlights activities and resources for returning veterans. The September-October issue of SAMHSA News reports on an August 2008 conference called Paving the Road Home: Returning Veterans and Behavioral Health, and offers information on treatment for traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, employment, and resources for children of military families, among other topics. SAMHSA collaborated with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs in planning the conference — a follow-up to the first returning veterans and behavioral health “Road Home” conference held in March 2006. Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:44:05 +0100 672297 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/452363478/ Yup. Video and voice are now integrated into gtalk in gmail - but not yet via the gtalk stand alone client. A Skype-killer I would think? Cindi-cam via gtalk in gmail  Uploaded to Flickr on November 13, 2008 by sirexkat I remember going to the Science and Technology discovery centre (Scitech) 15 years ago and seeing an “amaaazing” and expensive device to allow video telephone calls - with a screen refresh rate of about 10 frames per minute. google video chat w/kathryn  Uploaded to Flickr on November 14, 2008 by cindiann As Cindi pointed out, all it needs now is screen and ap sharing functionality….and it’s still useful how you can do this in a window while working on a google doc together …. or anything else.  Me? I want to see split screen conference calling so you can have three or four people video conferencing at once. Do like. (Source: Librarians matter) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:49:40 +0100 672785 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/infoisland/~3/452364878/ From Victoria Peterson We are proud to announce the formation of a new Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL) Interest Group, the Second Life Interest Group (SLIG). SLIG was formed by unanimous vote at the November CAL Board meeting. The purpose of the group is to: Explore new ways of doing digital outreach, networking and public relations in order to promote Colorado and its libraries (including but not limited to academic, public, special, and school) on the virtual world of Second Life Build a Colorado Association of Libraries presence on Second Life through a new virtual library that will represent the combined efforts of the aforementioned Colorado libraries and their library staff. This new library, “the Sustainable Living Library” on the sim Emerald City, will represent best practices for living an ecologically conscious life. Through virtual workshops, conferences, and links to “green websites”, the community of Second Life as well as real life patrons will learn more about their environment and how to save it. The “Sustainable Living Library” will make available to the community of Second Life the online public access catalogs of Colorado libraries associated with this new library and any programs or activities that promote Colorado, its libraries, or CAL. The Mission Statement of the Sustainable Living Library: The Sustainable Living Library of Second Life is committed to creating better and healthier lives for ourselves and our children through sustainable living practices. By developing workshops, exhibits and other resources, we strive to educate our visitors about green practices and other ways to sustain healthy lives and a healthy planet. SLIG will be meeting soon in the virtual world of Second Life. Interest group members and all others are encouraged to attend this virtual meeting. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:17:37 +0100 672805 http://lblog.jalcorn.net/archives/1232-Personally,-I-like-this-list,-at-the-end-of-the-day.html Oxford Researchers List Top 10 Most Annoying Phrases Not all University of Oxford researchers are uptight and humorless, "irregardless" of what you might think. In fact, a bunch of them compiled a list of the Top 10 Most Irritating Expressions in the English language -- just b