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 Memes interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:54:56 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/09/02/september-2nd-stream-2.html Shared I don’t usually do the shoe meme, but… new shoes!. I don’t usually do the shoe meme, but… new shoes! Shared SF Signal: MIND MELD: SF Books That Will Stand The Test of Time. Did you ever read an old science fiction book that felt dated? Maybe the predictions were way off base, or maybe or they were a reflection of the times in which they were written. Yet some books are considered timeless classics, which makes one wonder which of today’s books will fall into that category. So we turned to this week’s and asked them hey @foursquare –u have a douchebag badge but ur stalling on the library one? that’s really where u want to hang ur hat? http://ow.ly/2ytUA [shifted] Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:03 +0100 868718 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/08/24/alikewise-is-for-book-lovers It looks like Alikewise.com has been around all year, but I only heard about it this weekend - it’s a dating website that matches people based on the books they like. This is a great idea for a dating website - it seems a much better way to get at someone’s true nature than filling out a profile by guessing what will make you attractive. I checked around the site a bit (without creating a profile), and wonder if there’s a way to tie-in with sites like LibraryThing and Good Reads to capitalize on peoples’ full libraries. LibraryThing sort of already does this, with their You and None Other meme. But here’s something funny: at my first library, we toyed with the idea of a “singles night” book group. We thought it’d be a perfect program for Friday nights, after work, to come and meet other single people interested in books. It never happened, but I always liked the idea. Maybe that’ll eventually manifest in Alikewise meetups. And wouldn’t this be a heck of a social networking widget to add to a library catalog? “Like this book? Click here to meet other patrons that do, too.” via Burlington Free Press (thanks, Carney) and more at NPR (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:33:41 +0100 865045 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/me3Rj8_pz74/ After I posted Twitter Search Engines a couple days ago, Gary Price chatted with me about TwapperKeeper. Basically, Twapperkeeper can save tweets and hashtags, and creates an archive of them for you… so you, say, don’t lose track of a hashtag you created a couple of weeks ago. What other similar tools are out there? Check out these useful posts: 10 Ways to Archive your Tweets from ReadWriteWeb – Twapperkeeper is listed here. How to Backup your Twitter Archive from MakeUseOf.com – don’t want to lose your tweets? Check out one of these services. Finally, some useful tips from Danny Sullivan on how to search Google for old tweets. Hope you find these useful! Share: Related PostsTwitter Search EnginesMeta Social: Online Interactions & how to make them ROCKHow a Meme Gets StartedPersonal Accounts, Work Accounts – What To Do?Follow the Meat Department on Twitter! (Source: David Lee King) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:44:12 +0100 867301 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/RNlHUGmr_Dk/johnt Civilization Systems: Leadership & Adam Smith - On Ignoring the Basics http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/970948905/in-societies-where-the-decision-makers-are The High Cost of Poor Communication http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/974278717/sis-international-research-discovered-that-70-of http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/974273262/feedback-and-engagement The Esperanto of the Bacteria World § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM Bacterial Foresight § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/974735218/do-bacteria-have-foresight Introducing The 6 Laws Of Customer Experience « Customer Experience Matters In numero Nature’s Nature « Chemoton § Vitorino Ramos' research notebook The Good, the Bad and the Ugly « Chemoton § Vitorino Ramos' research notebook On memes… « Chemoton § Vitorino Ramos' research notebook Can you trust your own eyes, or hears? « Chemoton § Vitorino Ramos' research notebook http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/975860368/fig-illusion-created-by-prof-akiyoshi-kitaoka (Source: Library clips) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0100 864948 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/xdMus8jWowY/ Twenty two days ago, I asked readers to tweet how they get permission to do stuff using the #getpermission hashtag in Twitter. Yesterday, I remembered that I needed to copy/paste some of those tweets into my How YOU Get Permission post … and failed miserably! Why? Because tweets pretty much disappear after about a week and a half. Technically the tweets are still there – they’re just not found by most search engines, Twitter’s included. So I did some furious searching, and actually found a few of those hashtag tweets! Which search engines worked? Here’s a list of Twitter search engines and what they found. Thankfully, there’s one #getpermission tweet out there right now, so theoretically, every search should at least find that recent tweet. Let’s see what happens! Found the most recent tweet plus something else: Topsy – found it, plus three others (including the ones I quoted in my last post). You have to click “all time” to get those. It’s obviously NOT all time, or it would have found everything else, too. Not sure what’s up with that. But hey – it’s something! twazzup – found it, plus found my last post, a news article that mentioned “get permission” crowdeye – found it plus one other, plus my blog post. Found the most recent tweet only: Twitter collecta icerocket tweetscan twitscoop itpints – found the tweet – also found some random youtube video that had “get permission” in the description of the video. ... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:43:25 +0100 867302 http://www.figoblog.org/node/1990 Les deux dernières journées de l'IFLA, samedi et dimanche, ont été riches en ce qui me concerne, car le dimanche matin se déroulait la session "Libraries and the semantic Web", que j'ai contribué à organiser, et l'après-midi la session "Development of systems for long-term storage and preservation of library collections" dans laquelle je présentais un article. Samedi, mis à part une courte (et extrêmement agréable) rencontre avec quelques membres du LLD XG, j'ai consacré la plupart de mon énergie à finir de préparer la journée du lendemain, ce qui incluait la modération de la session du matin, la préparation des différentes copies de mon article pour la traduction simultanée, etc. La session "Libraries and the Semantic Web", bien que se déroulant un dimanche 15 août à partir de 8h30 (!), a attiré environ 250 personnes, dont la plupart ne dormaient même pas ! Nous avons eu droit à une ouverture riche et éclairante par Richard Wallis, suivie par 6 présentations toutes pertinentes et de haute qualité dont vous retrouverez les textes sur le site de l'IFLA et les présentations sur Slideshare. La session a aussi été assez bien couverte sur twitter (#ifla2010) y compris par votre serviteuse qui twittait depuis la tribune ;-) La session de l'après midi, consacrée à la préservation numérique, s'est très bien passée aussi. Il y avait environ 120 personnes, ce qui n'est pas mal du tout pour la dernière session de la conférence. Les autres présentations portaient sur le système e-Depot de la KB, et sur Hathi trust. La défection d'un des intervenants a été habilement compensée au pied levé, grâce au brio des animatrices de la session, par une intéressante discussion avec la salle permettant de faire un peu le tour des initiatives en cours. Et puis c'était la fin : la session de clôture, avec ses récompenses, ses remerciements... ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:58:50 +0100 867977 http://figoblog.org/node/1990 Les deux dernières journées de l'IFLA, samedi et dimanche, ont été riches en ce qui me concerne, car le dimanche matin se déroulait la session "Libraries and the semantic Web", que j'ai contribué à organiser, et l'après-midi la session "Development of systems for long-term storage and preservation of library collections" dans laquelle je présentais un article. Samedi, mis à part une courte (et extrêmement agréable) rencontre avec quelques membres du LLD XG, j'ai consacré la plupart de mon énergie à finir de préparer la journée du lendemain, ce qui incluait la modération de la session du matin, la préparation des différentes copies de mon article pour la traduction simultanée, etc. La session "Libraries and the Semantic Web", bien que se déroulant un dimanche 15 août à partir de 8h30 (!), a attiré environ 250 personnes, dont la plupart ne dormaient même pas ! Nous avons eu droit à une ouverture riche et éclairante par Richard Wallis, suivie par 6 présentations toutes pertinentes et de haute qualité dont vous retrouverez les textes sur le site de l'IFLA et les présentations sur Slideshare. La session a aussi été assez bien couverte sur twitter (#ifla2010) y compris par votre serviteuse qui twittait depuis la tribune ;-) La session de l'après midi, consacrée à la préservation numérique, s'est très bien passée aussi. Il y avait environ 120 personnes, ce qui n'est pas mal du tout pour la dernière session de la conférence. Les autres présentations portaient sur le système e-Depot de la KB, et sur Hathi trust. La défection d'un des intervenants a été habilement compensée au pied levé, grâce au brio des animatrices de la session, par une intéressante discussion avec la salle permettant de faire un peu le tour des initiatives en cours. Et puis c'était la fin : la session de clôture, avec ses récompenses, ses remerciements... ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:58:50 +0100 867121 http://www.figoblog.org/node/1988 Mercredi, après avoir dansé sur ABBA à la session d'ouverture (mais je souhaiterais aussi saluer la performance des deux autres artistes, un guitariste et une chanteuse, qui étaient vraiment époustouflants) nous avons dégusté un déjeuner à base de pommes de terres et de saumon fumé, offert par la présidente. Les sessions de conférence ont ensuite démarré, mais seulement jusqu'à 16h, où nous attendait un nouvel événement : l'ouverture de l'exposition et des stands. Une nouvelle occasion de boire un verre, et de retrouver (entre autre) les collègues de l'ABES, que j'en profite pour saluer ici. J'ai fait une belle collection de reproches quant à mon manque d'assiduité sur Figoblog, alors, saisie de remords, je me suis dépêchée de m'enregistrer parmi les blogueurs officiels de l'IFLA, ce qui m'a permis d'obtenir un joli ruban bleu pour décorer mon badge. J'ai également profité d'un peu de temps libre pour visiter la Bibliothèque publique de la ville. C'est un endroit extrêmement agréable, avec plein de fauteuils ikéa et de places confortables pour travailler, une offre de livres dans de nombreuses langues, et des animations variées. On profitait aussi des échos du festival qui a une scène juste en bas sur Götaplatsen. Le lendemain, deuxième jour de la Conférence, j'ai assisté à la présentation par OCLC de leur nouveau service "Webscale Management System", un service de gestion de bibliothèque "dans les nuages". Très intéressant, mais c'est encore un travail en cours, qui n'existe que sous forme de pilote aux Etats-Unis pour l'instant. Juste après cela, le petit sous-groupe de travail sur le Web sémantique que j'anime au sein de la section IT s'est réuni pour discuter de ses actions pour les années à venir. ... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:26:44 +0100 867980 http://figoblog.org/node/1988 Mercredi, après avoir dansé sur ABBA à la session d'ouverture (mais je souhaiterais aussi saluer la performance des deux autres artistes, un guitariste et une chanteuse, qui étaient vraiment époustouflants) nous avons dégusté un déjeuner à base de pommes de terres et de saumon fumé, offert par la présidente. Les sessions de conférence ont ensuite démarré, mais seulement jusqu'à 16h, où nous attendait un nouvel événement : l'ouverture de l'exposition et des stands. Une nouvelle occasion de boire un verre, et de retrouver (entre autre) les collègues de l'ABES, que j'en profite pour saluer ici. J'ai fait une belle collection de reproches quant à mon manque d'assiduité sur Figoblog, alors, saisie de remords, je me suis dépêchée de m'enregistrer parmi les blogueurs officiels de l'IFLA, ce qui m'a permis d'obtenir un joli ruban bleu pour décorer mon badge. J'ai également profité d'un peu de temps libre pour visiter la Bibliothèque publique de la ville. C'est un endroit extrêmement agréable, avec plein de fauteuils ikéa et de places confortables pour travailler, une offre de livres dans de nombreuses langues, et des animations variées. On profitait aussi des échos du festival qui a une scène juste en bas sur Götaplatsen. Le lendemain, deuxième jour de la Conférence, j'ai assisté à la présentation par OCLC de leur nouveau service "Webscale Management System", un service de gestion de bibliothèque "dans les nuages". Très intéressant, mais c'est encore un travail en cours, qui n'existe que sous forme de pilote aux Etats-Unis pour l'instant. Juste après cela, le petit sous-groupe de travail sur le Web sémantique que j'anime au sein de la section IT s'est réuni pour discuter de ses actions pour les années à venir. ... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:26:44 +0100 867123 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/zcGn/~3/fkdqpAPnpAQ/detroit-public-schools-im-in-campaign.html Libraries should be the king of cause marketing and yet we often miss the mark. Shiv Singh and Peter Carter write about the winner of this year's Effies Award in the Harvard Business Review. No, not a library but close- the Detroit Public Schools. The campaign increased enrollment and brought in $49 million in incremental funding. Not bad. They outlined five lessons in the blog . 1. Cause marketing matters more than ever. We live in a difficult world. Through these difficult times we expect brands to do more for our communities. If they take the lead, we'll reward them. The Detroit Public Schools campaign and Ford's "Drive One 4 UR School" are perfect example of this. People are excited to rally around important causes and brands that engage authentically in this effort can benefit too. The critical factor is to find a cause that authentically relates to your brand's equity and culture. 2. Taking the right posture in an economic downturn can bring success. The economic downturn caused a lot of suffering, but it also created an opportunity for brands to say, "We understand what you're going through and we are going to do something different as a result." Programs that did well in 2010 were ones that understood the impact of the economic crisis and responded to it with the appropriate voice and tone. For example, Hyundai brought compassion and assurance to a new car purchase by offering to refund your money if you lost your job. 3. Advertising is dead, long live advertising. There's a meme in the world of business that consumers do not like advertising and even more broadly, that marketing communications does not work. If there's anything that the finalists and the winner showed is that there's a very direct line from successful marketing programs to an organization's bottom line. The Detroit Public Schools turned around a 10 year decline in enrollment with some paint and lumber. ... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866130 http://santafelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/08/santa-fe-scavenger-hunt.html I love cracking open the Santa Fe Reporter on Wednesdays and heading to the Outtakes section. In addition to making sure that I'm not quoted in the Eavesdropper, I like the Meme, the place where a picture truly is worth a thousand words. It's neat when I recognize the object in the photograph, and it's also neat when I then have a week to locate the object of visual humor / derision / irony.This week, on page 10 of the Reporter, we're honored to be featured in one of those somewhat embarassing tableaux. The meme resides on the second floor of the Main Library. Since we see it every day, we've long meditated on its overall Kafkaesque uselessness. However, it never occured to us to share it with the wider world.If you also participate in this kind of scavenger hunt, my apologies for ruining your weekly Meme. And to whomever noticed its ridiculousness enough to snap a photo of it, thank you! (Source: ICARUS... the Santa Fe Public Library Blog) Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864785 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/booksquare/~3/sk_GktXQPqU/ Today’s links of interest: Women in Publishing Twitter DirectoryWhen Jane Litte of Dear Author started the #womeninpublishing meme this morning, we bet she didn’t expect such an amazing response. Galleycat consolidated names and links to the entire hashtag feed. What’s amazing about this list? How people define the idea of women in publishing. Oh, and the amazing community we’ve created online. (Source: Booksquare) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:15:06 +0100 864906 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/AWtk6cxmSGs/ Earlier on today, on my blog post around 10 Reasons NOT to Ban Social Media in Organisations I was eventually sharing a number of different arguments as to why social computing within the enterprise is a worth while effort to pursue further. Those arguments were trying to provide a reply to the original resource that stated why some businesses out there may not be that open and receptive, just yet, to social networking. So I thought in this blog entry I would continue to pick things up and share some further insights, specially around a number of those headings picked up by this meme itself. Namely, it’s about controlling the message, employees will goof off, social media is a time waster and employees can’t be trusted. How do I plan to continue the conversation? Well, with a little help of my friends, of course! In the past, you would remember how I have been talking about a special group of KMers, right? A bunch of really smart, witty, incredibly insightful, thought-provoking, passionate and rather enthusiastic people about the topics of Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Communities, Learning and Social Networking. Yes, that’s right! That talented group of great thinkers! Well, every Tuesday at noon EDT they get together on Twitter (I try to join them as many times as I possibly can), pick up a topic and a moderator and they embark, in my opinion, on some of the most interesting and exciting conversations you can have around on the Internet at the moment, covering various different areas, but perhaps with a special focus on KM itself, after all. Like last week’s, around the topic of "Let go of Control; Encourage and Monitor", moderated by my good friend, and KM extraordinaire, Stan Garfield. ... Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:59:18 +0100 866213 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/tdy6-Ld98EQ/ieder-creatief-werk-is-afgeleid.html The whole history of human culture evolves through copying, making tiny transformations (sometimes called "errors") with each replication. Copying is the engine of cultural progress. It is not "stealing." It is, in fact, quite beautiful, and leads to a cultural diversity that inspires awe.Question Copyright is een heerlijke website. Lees er meer over de Boekenbevrijder (lijkt me niet handig, die hardware), vrije content, Sita sings the blues en de Minute Memes. Of koop er een leuk t-shirt, whatever. Ieder creatief werk is afgeleid. En je weet het. Gerelateerd: Kewl: boeken rippen met de Atiz Booksnap Over downloaden, gratis en welvaart Niet voor winst maar uit passie App van de week: Genius Scan @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:14:00 +0100 862051 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/24/ten-best-nameless-protagonists-mullan John Mullan goes in search of anonymityRoxana by Daniel DefoeDefoe's "memoir" of an invented 17th-century courtesan has acquired a title that is but one of his anti-heroine's pseudonyms. "The Fortunate Mistress" (as the novel was originally called) keeps her true name secret, masquerading as a "woman of quality" in order to beguile rich men.The Aspern Papers by Henry JamesThe namelessness of James's narrator seems fitting in a tale of genteel deceit. He tells us of his obsession with a dead poet called Jeffrey Aspern, whose papers may be in the possession of a former lover, now living in Venice. He can only gain these manuscripts by marrying her dowdy niece. What to do?"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins GilmanA doctor has confined his wife to her bedroom, decreeing that she is suffering from some nervous affliction. She keeps a secret journal, whose entries constitute this short story. Her fevered imagination is fed by patterns in the wallpaper. Her namelessness has made her, for some, a representative of 19th-century womanhood.Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierDu Maurier's melodrama is narrated by the most famously unnamed character in 20th-century fiction. She has married rich and charming Maxim de Winter and returned to his estate, ruled by the terrifying housekeeper Mrs Danvers. The story is of course dominated by the personality – and therefore the name – of Maxim's dead wife.The Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneGreene liked to find unusual names – Bendrix, Querry – for his protagonists, so his refusal to name the alcoholic Mexican priest on the run from the anti-clerical authorities is significant. The protagonist's discovery of a religious mission through danger and suffering is made a Greenian parable about the need for religious belief. ... Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:05:58 +0100 861766 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/E5cC3NFWy9o/ Often lost among all the ‘iPads mean that ebooks WIN!’ articles is the idea that for many of us, for the long foreseeable future, it is not an either/or scenario. Some books may be well-suited to e-reading, while others are (and will remain for various reasons) a better experience in print. So with that said, what would the home of a tech-loving reader look like? Where do the books live? Where do the toys live? And what sorts of choices would such a person make over what to purchase for any given title? I offer, as case study, my own humble abode. I live in a very expensive city and housing prices are unbelievable. I don’t have the space for a massive print library and I am, like many of my peers, a renter. I have had to move a lot, not always by my own choice, and every time I do I purge the print books. Ebooks have been a great thing for me! The apartment is a cookie-cutter one-bedroom, very typical of what you’ll find in my area. THE BEDROOM: WHERE THE FANCY BOOKS LIVE The bedroom has two book areas: a large bookcase in the corner which has my teaching books, files, and assorted books which don’t belong elsewhere, and two matching baby bookcases (sold as closet organizers originally, if I recall—and I do have three more IN the closet now that I think about it) serving as bedside tables. One of these has all my French pleasure books and the other has the feel-good books: poetry, self-helpy stuff and anything religion-related. I don’t read most of these books very often, but when I want them, I am very glad to have them. Most of my personal French reading is done on the Kindle now because it has a built-in dictionary which is very handy. But I tutor and sometimes find myself trolling the shelves for stories and activities. And I do find poetry better suited for the printed page—I have to be in the mood, but when I am, it is something I enjoy a lot. ... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:25:42 +0100 861295 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/21/glen-baxter-top-10-memento-mori From St Augustine to Nietzche, the author chooses the fearless autobiographical writers who taught him how to write his own, A Preparation for DeathGreg Baxter was born in Texas in 1974, and has lived in Dublin for the past 10 years where he works as a journalist, and runs the Some Blind Alleys creative writing courses. His memoir A Preparation for Death is an unflinchingly honest account of his self-destructive personal decay in his early 30s, and his redemption throug writing.Buy A Preparation for Death at the Guardian bookshop"My interest in autobiography began quite late, relative to my interest in books. I had always assumed heavy lifting in literature could only be accomplished by novels, and I very much wanted to be a heavy lifter. Also, I felt and still feel a natural revulsion toward memoir. Nothing that had ever happened in my life was worth, in itself, a page of published text. But I was sick of my own fiction, and sick of the tired and relentless procession of award-winning novels that all looked the same, and became, through their success, the primary influences of a new generation of fiction writers. The bitterness I felt at not being recognised as a figure in literature almost destroyed me as a writer: I only wrote to be praised, or to avenge, or to insult."It was through an intense study of autobiography – beginning with The Art of the Personal Essay, edited by Philip Lopate – that I learned how to write without ambition, and for myself. Every great autobiographical work is a private preparation for death: an author hunts down his weaknesses, his delusions, his inherited values, his everyday enslavements, and murders them in plain sight. Below are some of the works – books and essays – that inspired this sort of ruthlessness in me."Death of Death: "Asthma" by SenecaAll the best autobiographical writers – those who teach us how to live well and how to die well – are to varying degrees stoics. ... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:15:26 +0100 861215 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/07/viral-marketing-of-library.html (Found via here). NPR has an excellent article entitled 'Why the next big pop culture after cupcakes might be libraries'. The article looks at the impact of the viral marketing of libraries via the (excessively) meme'd Old Spice video and Lady Gaga also. The article looks at the positive article's that seem to being picked up, on the importance of libraries in this 'big society' no skills/pay/promotion world.The article then looks at the positive impact of libraries on societies to. Obviously, people have to pay for them, but they do provide a cultural outlet for many users. But in Britain when I think of of Cameron, Conservatives and libraries I think of Goring:-Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my browning. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 861575 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=797 The Internet: Everything You Ever Need to Know The Guardian   •  June 20, 2010 Perspective is everything. Open University professor John Naughton freely admits that this is not really everything you need to know about the Internet, but he makes a useful point about taking the long view of this game-changing technology. As Zhou Enlai observed when asked about the significance of the French Revolution, “It’s too early to say.” I’m sure you know John Naughton. If not you should familiarize yourself. He’s an always-interesting commentator on the Internet, technology and the World Wide Web. His news and magazine columns are always worth the time and his blog (online diary) Memex 1.1 is personal and wide-ranging. This piece is a nice reminder of some important things we forget (or didn’t really see clearly) about the Internet. (Michalko) (Source: hangingtogether.org) Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:23:23 +0100 861202 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2010/07/16/lucky-gal/ This is a general catch-up post prompted by the number of people I ran into at ALA who asked, “How ARE you?” in that very pregnant manner that means, so, is your life still screwed up? And no disrespect to people who enriched our lives during the Florida Experiment — I particularly miss my writing friends! — but that was a particularly awry three years for me, personally and professionally. It was a “growth experience,” and I appreciate my new life so much more, but I could have skipped the over-long teachable moment and come out just fine. On my jobs in Florida, it was a matter of “fit”; I took work that was available, and I tried to contribute back to the places I worked, and I particularly learned a lot working for a vendor. But ultimately these were not the kind of professional opportunities such as I have now that fits me like a tailored suit. I particularly never felt that I contributed back to the places I worked in ways that befitted my potential, and that’s a hard thing for me. So now I live in San Francisco in a delightful neighborhood near where I grew up and every weekend we go out and do fun things in the best city in the world, I have an annoyingly long commute where I crawl back and forth across the Bay Bridge in Sparkle, my stalwart Honda (no, I can’t really take public transit), and I have a terrific job where I put in too many hours and have far too few resources and work with the most delightful people (in the library and campus-wide, including the students, who in the words of a faculty member have apparently been sprayed with something that makes them extra-nice) who make it all very satisfying. My commute is tame in the morning because I leave the house at oh-dark-thirty, enabling me to skim across the Bridge where to my right  as I approach Oakland are those strange cranes that have always looked to me like dinosaurs. ... Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:08:24 +0100 860130 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6256 From the MediaBerkman blog: Take a look at the headlines of any major newspaper or news magazine. Check out the non-fiction bestsellers at Amazon. The net is on everyone’s minds. Or more specifically, the way the net is on our minds is on our minds. Nicholas Carr’sThe Shallows paints a bleak picture of what the net is doing to our plastic brains, cheapening our relationships, and ruining our attention spans. Clay Shirky’s recent release Cognitive Surplus on the other hand celebrates the web’s power to enable quick, smart, crowdsourced action and creativity. Hundreds of other authors and thinkers have responded with their own variations and theories on what the internet is doing to us, and what we are doing on the net. With all of this thinking on the net, we thought it was time to do some thinking on the thinking on the net. And luckily we have two great thinker thinkers in house. Our very own David Weinberger has suggested jokingly that there should be a Myers-Briggs test for net fanaticism, while memetracker and ROFLCon founder Tim Hwang has grouped net thinkers into schools. Today, they explain how different thinkers think on the net, and importantly, why the heck everyone’s so interested. CONTINUE OVER TO MediaBerkman FOR THE AUDIO AND MORE... (Source: Berkman Blog) Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0100 859861 http://splat.lili.org/node/382 There are always new technological tools being created and disseminated and, much like web memes, they can catch on fairly quickly and spread as more individuals make use of a service/tool/technology to make their lives, both personal & professional, enriched by experiences. For example, I've been noticing increased interest and use of QR Codes as a way to enhance the way one interacts with a 2 dimensional picture via a smart phone, be it a product like a Calvin Klein advert, to how they are being used in libraries. More recently another concept is emerging to enhance this 2 dimensional interactivity to a more immersive, 3rd dimensional experience. Again, because today's smart phone technology (or rather, mini computers that happen to be able to make phone calls), a secondary (or is it tertiary?) level of interaction is becoming possible--this is augmented reality (AR). This is Wikipedia's entry on AR: Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality  in which a view of reality is modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer. As a result, the technology functions by enhancing one’s current perception of reality. In the case of Augmented Reality, the augmentation is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, such as sports scores on TV during a match. With the help of advanced AR technology (e.g. adding computer vision and object recognition) the information about the surrounding real world of the user becomes interactive and digitally usable. Artificial information about the environment and the objects in it can be stored and retrieved as an information layer on top of the real world view. ... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:57:05 +0100 860541 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/Iya93sxLBf8/ It’s been fun today watching the #inatweet meme take off on Twitter. Which made me think it’d be fun to document it a bit – memes, trends, and interesting topics CAN originate from your organization (it’s certainly happened to my library before). Here’s how the #inatweet meme started: Justin Hoenke (@justinlibrarian) was talking to Joe Murphy (@libraryfuture) about Dropbox, a cool file sharing and storage service, and I chimed in too (’cause Dropbox really IS a cool tool). Justin asked Joe and I if “either of you point me in the direction of a good place to start for learning about Dropbox?” I just said “they have a video about themselves – I’d start there.” Joe, however, tweeted this: “Dropbox in a tweet: Transfer/synch files across comps & mobile devices via web or software @JustinLibrarian @davidleeking.” And I replied back “@libraryfuture @JustinLibrarian good job! Hey, u cld start a meme – describe *** in a tweet!.” … And of course Joe, master of all things social, actually DID it – “Let’s do it! @davidleeking Librarians- share an intro to a useful tech in a 1 Tweet blurb & use the #inatweet hashtag. ... Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:04:40 +0100 858367 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/HxbBKsFC2oQ/ OK, I know we don’t "do" enterprise 2.0, but I thought it was a catchy title. In case you haven’t scrolled down yet, this is a gigantic post even for my standards. It started off reviewing an evolving theme of enterprise 2.0 moving to process-based solutions, and on the way I stumbled across another perspective on the world of "knowledge work" and "processes" called "Adaptive Process Management". I was going to break this post into parts, but I had already written it in a woven whole piece, so bad luck you are just going to have to read it bit by bit yourself. Michael Idinopulos from the Transparent Office blog is on the money continuously…he has a very realistic take on enterprise 2.0. In his latest post he takes the enterprise 2.0 movement full circle…it’s not about tools, it’s not about culture, it’s about processes. Don’t I know it, I mentioned this a while ago, and I recently wrote a massive post not long ago on ad-hoc work. It’s actually about all these things, "design" needs to be sweet, people need to be willing to give it a go, but they will do this moreso if you make the tools irresistible and in-the-flow…kind of like you can’t do without a remote control for your TV. And we do this my embedding the tools into existing processes, and also assembling these tools for adhoc work in a more solidfied way. I’ll just note here, as I do at the end of this post, that socialising business processes is closing the current circle of the state of the enterprise. Next is leaping to another circle where there is a shift in organisational structure from a process to network based organisation. ... Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:39:24 +0100 857273 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/0unokpnWPWI/ You may have thought that our 30 bloggers had run dry by Day 29. Not so! Opinions from an OPL made some observations about the penultimate day, but there were also many more fascinating facts coming forth. The big meme mover was 30 things – those things you have done this month, on top of keeping up with this challenge. It was exhausting reading through the posts by Buntoting Librarian, Miss Sophie Mac, Bonito Club, Strawberries of Integrity and Rien d’Important, but so worth it to do so. New Technologies Interest Group explored the benefits of social networking, SkinniBitch discussed Mentoring in Libraryland and a Public Librarian found support from surprising directions. Fascinating insights, each and every one. Suelibrarian defined special libraries, whilst in a surprising parallel (which has happened a lot in these 30 days), Sally Sets Forth defined public service. Check them out and see if you agree. One more day to summarise. With this level of quality coming out of the penultimate day, I am really looking forward to catching up with the last day posts – from everyone! (Source: librariesinteract.info) Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:37:00 +0100 856062 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/as_2o4lFbs0/ Manic Monday was a mixed bag of treats, some tiring and waning with many memes and exclamations of ‘non posts’ or  reasons for skipping days. So today I will avail you with the five posts that inspired me most (and inspired me greatly at that!): Skinnibitch wrote a particularly thought provoking post on mentoring – managing to highlight way too much in such a short space  - the value of a mentor, how to practically and proactively find a mentor and career mapping. FromMelbin introduced a fascinating topic under in disguise (and one close to my own heart) of working with students to contribute design ideas for a future new library.  My first thought turns to services and infrastructure however in this case it is focusing on designing out crime. snail talks about the price gulf in books in Australia compared to alternatives online both in print and ebooks. I find this topic fascinating as I often lament the decline of the bookstore in my life, and even more so the decline of purchasing books from bookstores rather than searching for a cheaper (& usually a good 50% cheaper) copy online. I always love it when people get passionate about things…for a great inspiring dose of passion and some good photography tips take a read of Miss Sophic Mac and learn about her camera collection…and then read her story of why she became a librarian. If her passion hasn’t inspired you to do something…anything then I’m not sure what will. Another passionate post – this time from sallysetforth on the importance of accessibility with some staggering statistics on print disabilities and how little this issue is addressed. Read it, stop hyperventilating and then think about how you can start closing this gap in your library. ... Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:29:20 +0100 856063 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/27/charlotte-moore-hancox-house-family The Moore family has lived at Hancox, a large, rambling Sussex house, for five generations. Rowan Moore recalls his childhood there and how its ramshackle charms fired his lifelong passion for architectureA broad stair, the work of a pretentious 16th-century owner, winds up from a dark hall towards a bright landing, the shifts in light modulated by wobbly plaster and oak. Tall timber shafts rise to the ceiling, warped in memory of their former life as tree trunks in the nearby woods. Newel posts end in handsome carved finials shaped like poppy heads, one of them violently mutilated by an alcoholic, in the time when this was a Church of England home for inebriates.Weaponry is lodged here and there: a halberd, flintlock pistols, bayonets, a boomerang and a German helmet, with eagle-and-swastika insignia, taken by my uncle when he was liberated from his prisoner-of-war camp in 1945. Ancestors and obscure relatives gaze out of large, darkened portraits. A portrait of my great-grandfather, in his robes as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, is propped against a wall, waiting for decades for someone to get round to putting it up.This is Hancox, the house where I grew up, and where five generations of my family have lived. It is now the subject of a moving book by my sister Charlotte, who lives there. Based on the letters, diaries and mementos accumulated in its attic, cupboards and bookshelves, her book tells the stories of interconnected families living in Hancox and nearby Sussex houses, a century or so of eccentricity, endeavour, love, adultery, disease, early death, political radicalism, brilliance, insanity and – a recurrent theme – ornithology.For me, Hancox is the place that first shaped my feelings about architecture and set me on a career of studying, writing about and occasionally designing buildings. ... Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:05:27 +0100 855186 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/bHBRTWSSI8E/ Friday again featured a number of memes.  Morgan asked 20 questions on day 20 so I thought I would ask you a few more: Who said don’t be afraid to change direction when she reflected on why she became a librarian? Who described her life according to They Might Be Giants and The Cure? Whose son passed a milestone getting his P-plates? Who is an RSS evangelist? Who is participating in the 10,000 steps challenge? Which school librarian watched students dance for joy? Which blogger answers her own question about why she became a librarian? Who quotes Lord Byron? Whose blog featured a couple of furry friends? Who spend a lovely day on her own in Daylesford? Only four days to go. Keep them coming people. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:14:16 +0100 856066 http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/06/tv-meme.html I am once again using a prompt from the blog Ruminations to get some writing in. Ok, it's just cheap entertainment for me. So, here are the questions as provided with my replies.Do you snack while watching TV? Sometimes.What is your favorite TV show? This varies. These days I watch a lot of stuff on places like the Discovery Channel and History Channel. From those, I like Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, and Deadliest Catch (though not as much as I liked it the first season or so). I also watch Ice Road Truckers and Swamp Loggers when I see it is on and I remember. What TV show makes you run to change channels? Most reality television makes me want to run for the hills. I will be blunt: I do not give a rodent's derriere for shows like Jersey Shore, the Real Housewives of Wherever the Hell (or whatever a bunch of prima donna overrated mostly over the hill trophy wives with vacuous lives call themselves), Survivor, the one on TruTv about the repo people, etc. I believe that eons from now, when whatever advanced race finds evidence we existed, they will be able to point to reality television as one of the major reasons for our societal decay and our intellectual fall. These shows pretty much just highlight the worse humanity has to offer. That they are popular says a lot about how low society has gone.How do you view your TV guide: online, on-screen, newspaper, magazine, other? I rarely view a TV guide in any form. I just catch stuff as I see it. There are a couple of shows I remember when they are on, and I try to make it point of watching them. Otherwise, I don't worry about it too much. Have you ever been surveyed for your TV-viewing habits or do you know anyone who has been? No on both counts.Do you watch TV news and/or current affairs regularly? I watch current affairs fairly often, but at times I watch the stuff in short spurts and in the background. In other words, I may have CNN turned on, but I will be on the laptop reading online feeds or doing something else. ... Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 856044 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/_WANu8mtv4w/ In library-related news: Bun-toting Librarian answers “Why am I a librarian?” Connecting Librarian writes about work experience students in the library, and commenters add their own… well, experiences. Creative Circ shares their library’s plans to create a “library based on trust”. In the handy ‘miscellaneous’ category: Opinions from an OPL writes about organisational aps. Bonito Club writes about Flutterscape, “a Japanese take on social networking and online purchasing”. justgirlwithshoes writes about friendship. The memes diversify into: Food: Walking Upside Down “cheats” with a recipe for ginger crunch that I’m going to have to try as soon as I get home, and LiberryDwarf posts a link to honey cookies. Poetry: Sharing poems are FromMelbin (with more in comments) and SallySetsForth. And political reflections on #spill are starting with Skinnibitch, haikugirloz, sardonicsmile, snail and Librarians Matter reflecting on the media through which they heard the news, and Rien d’Important thinking back to past breaking news events. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:49:54 +0100 854632 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/jun/23/religion-marilynne-robinson Marilynne Robinson's latest essays set out a concept of "parascience" which is clear and usefulOne of the things I see I missed while I was away was Rowan Williams' review of Marilynne Robinson's latest collection of essays, Absence of Mind. I had the book with me to reread while I was away, since it bears a great deal of thinking about; but worked my way through The Symbolic Species instead when I wanted non-fictional reading. That would be worth a really long and considered post, not least because it is an example of thinking about evolution done right. The discussion about how the features of language adapt to the workings of our brains should be required reading for anyone who takes "memes" seriously. But that's beside the point. The piece on his website is a reminder of just how good a critic Rowan Williams is. It's a great mystery that someone who can can write so perceptively about other people's thought will so often express his own so clumsily. But even if he weren't Archbishop of Canterbury, he would be a literary critic worth publishing, and this is a review worth reading anyway. What follows may not be, but I have a couple of pages of scrawled notes that I am reluctant to throw away even if there is no longer time to work them up into something longer.Robinson's critique of "parascience" is not entirely original, but it has seldom been so clearly expressed. At times, it is remarkably sympathetic. Her account of Freud is a triumph. It does not restore him as a scientific thinker; I don't think anyone could do that now. He is clearly located as a "parascientist" – someone who is using the language and prestige of science to stake out a philosophical or political position. But the philosophical and political position of a cultured Jew in early twentieth century was one worth defending. ... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:41:20 +0100 854389 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/DbXOx2l1mwY/ Day 22 of the challenge exhibited such a wide range of meme love. You can discover all sorts of interesting thing about our challenge bloggers, through the memes they post on. Check out a Public Librarian, From Melbin, Just girl with shoes, Strawberries of Integrity , Miss Sophie Mac, Rien d’important and Opinions from an OPL and share a bit of the librarian love. On learning more about our colleagues, we had the trip back in time with Suelibrarian, sardonicsmile and Librarian with different hats and who each told us their story of becoming a librarian. (cue the light piano music and sit back and enjoy their journeys) Gadgets also were explored by Ruminations and Angels have the phone box II – with a definite leaning to iPhones (as is at least one meme doing the rounds) and snail making us all envious with his new Kindle. And finally, the foci on personal security and personal privacy were well explored by New Technology Interest Group and Bun-toting librarian respectively. Lots of great stuff there, so go and discover! (Source: librariesinteract.info) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:35:37 +0100 854633 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6217 BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations If you would like to receive the Buzz weekly via email, please sign up here. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below. * Ethan Zuckerman tells Galvão to shut up. * danah boyd reverse engineers mainstream interest in 4chan. * Jake Shapiro opines on Apple's no-donation policy for apps. * David Weinberger is extroverted about his Internet exceptionalism. * And Doc Searls is still a utopian. * CMLP reads the FTC's collation of perspectives on saving print media. * Herdict on motivations for Net censorship in Indonesia. * Weekly Global Voices: "South Korea: Tensions Went Under World Cup Anesthestia" * New on Publius: "Moving Beyond One Size Fits All With Digital Citizenship" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The full buzz. "It’s a bit of a cliché to say that Americans don’t understand football, and especially don’t understand the importance of international tournaments like the World Cup. But sometimes we literally don’t understand what’s going on. As I write this post, “CALA BOCA GALVAO” is the top trending topic on Twitter. Galvao refers to Carlos Eduardo dos Santos Galvão Bueno, who announces Brazilian national football team matches on Rede Globo, a massive Brazilian television network. As Raphael Tsavkko Garcia explains on Global Voices, Galvão Bueno’s style of announcing is deeply unpopular in Brazil, and Brazilian twitterers have been posting their dissatisfaction: “Cala boca, Galvão” translates as “Shut up, Galvão”, and the phrase has been heavily in use since the global tournament started." From Ethan Zuckerman's blog post Save the Galvao – the World Cup and good natured global taunting "Amidst all of this, 4chan has “popped. ... Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:15:00 +0100 853176 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/qs5Re5UmqXo/ I’ve been on leave, busy, or sick for most of June so far, so today was the first day I’ve had the chance to actually read all of the posts for any day, and I’m super impressed! Beyond the memes, Day 16 brought us videos: sallysetsforth posts a Simon’s Cat video, Connecting Librarian posts “Who You Gonna Call?”, and Walking Upside Down includes some TEDtalks in her musings on creativity. Among the biblioblogging gems of the day: Librarians Matter continues the discussion on ebooks and DRM; Creative Circ bounces some thoughts off an article about indignation in organisations; a Public Librarian asks about staff satisfaction surveys; Edgar on the New Technologies Interest Group’s Blog asks about philanthropically funded libraries in Australia; and, very practically, moonflowerdragon provides the html code for hanging indents for APA style reference lists. Of course librarians must talk fashion: sardonicsmile describes her “trying to keep warm in the library outfit” while haikugirloz writes about runners/sneakers and looking after your feet. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:31:40 +0100 853289 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/kWDFrKtTf0s/ Looking over what happened yesterday, day 15 in the 30 blog posts in 30 days challenge, it looks like there were a few people like me, who were starting to get challenged on the next blog post. But look at what treasures we all came up with! Apart from my blog news at Connecting Librarian, Bun-toting Librarian entertained us with streams of consciousness, moonflowerdragon got immersed in meanings behind tree graffiti and New Technologies Interest Group’s Blog posted a library joke. On the meaningful experience spectrum, Miss Sophie Mac went searching for the perfect paragraph and Just girl with shoes looked at personality profiling. On the sharing library related topic side of things, Sallysetsforth shared an ugly experience with a library user, Walking upside down shared space with the Shanachies, Librarians Matter shared her experience of using Wordpress for a library website, virtuallyalibrarian shared her frustration with library ebook services (me too!),  sardonicsmile shared her experience of librarians dating patrons and Creative Circ shared on data and research in librarianship. The memes also continue in strength, as do the personal discoveries, the crafts, the interesting moments, the achievements and so much more that have helped make the 30 blog posts in 30 days challenge such a success. Well done to all involved.  Keep up the good work! (Source: librariesinteract.info) Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:13:07 +0100 853290 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/96wrIQBwjmU/ With a public holiday across half the country, AFL matches and the early morning and early painful start to the day with the World Cup – there was a distinctly sleeperish feel to many of the days posts. Jenelle and Naomi blogged specifically on being tired with several others, Virtually a Librarian, FromMelbin, Bonito Club,  LiberryDwarf, Options from an OPL, Miss Sophie Mac,   mentioning long weekends, tiredness and similar themes for coming down with meme fever. Cookering is a recurring and delicious theme across the challenge.  For day 14 I was delighted with Sallysetsforth’s recipe for coconut macaroons which I have tasted and can personally attest to their yumminess.  Bookgrrl’s pumpkin feast is definitely one to write home about with thai pumpkin soup, pumpkin scones and red lentil and pumpkin dahl. Lastly on the foody theme, Walking Upside Down keeps me recipe guessing and salivating with her weekly menu plan. A special mention, I empathised with Justgirlwithshoes trying to dry laundry in Melbourne’s Winter but also celebrated in the construction of a new clothesline (this is close to my own heart, having just recently installed our own outdoor clothesline). Nearing the halfway mark, and with the Winter cold now firmly set in , reflecting also seemed to be on the cards. Librarian with different hats reflected specifically on #blogeverydayinJune and on how much she has learnt from other librarians and the value in reflecting on daily life. ... Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:19:52 +0100 853291 http://acrlog.org/2010/06/14/reflections-on-blogging/ Editor’s Note: ACRLog is hosting a team of ALA Emerging Leaders. Each month one of our Emerging Leaders will contribute a guest post, and each will focus on some aspect of gearing up for the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. This month the series takes on a slightly different topic than the Annual Conference. Miriam Rigby, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Librarian for Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnic Studies,Geography & Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, shares some thoughts about blogging. One of the questions posed to our Emerging Leaders team when we took on this project to write posts for ACRLog and ACRL Insider, was whether blogs were still relevant. Based on my habits, which include subscribing to over 60 blogs through Google Reader, my initial gut reaction was “of course!” But then I started wondering, “are blogs the new Second Life?” No offense to people who find Second Life useful or entertaining, but outside of the realms of librarianship and advertising, very few people I know think it is relevant; some are surprised to hear it still exists or is used at all. And these people are visibly shocked when I tell them of ACRL conference presentations in which Second Life is used, or even discussed. Anecdotes, to be sure – from a small pool of people no less – but noteworthy, I think. Blogs seem different though. The New York Times has dozens of blogs. There are mega-blogs run along the lines of traditional news sources, with multiple, regular columnists and editors; take Boing Boing or Gizmodo for instance. There are even peer-edited blogs such as In the Library With the Lead Pipe. ... Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 852232 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/4JiNWLASVFI/ As we approach the mid-point of this challenge, meme madness has really set in. Saturday’s posts featured responses to a stack of memes that are doing the rounds, including a post from Kathryn who decided a meta meme post was in order. But we weren’t all a-memeing. Some were busy bartering with crafts, others were pondering why we continue to do stuff the way we always have, and others pondered the potential disconnect between ethics and organisational loyalty. Two posts yesterday really struck a chord with me. One of these was a post from Ruth, on her learnings from a day of crafty barter and other fun. This eloquent post is full of lots of little gems, like “It can be good to enjoy the process more, and worry less about the outcome”, “I will try new things with friends without feeling the pressure of needing to have an outcome” and (perhaps the most apt for me) “everyone in the world is more patient than me”. In the second post that stood out for me yesterday (another eloquent insight), Kalgrl reminded us that all people have a right to be treated with dignity and humanity. Go read it. We all need a reminder like this from time to time. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:24:09 +0100 853293 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/7-kBkUCXTyM/ Adding my 2c to the “unread by the bed” meme for the 30 posts in 30 days challenge. Currently reading: Margaret Attwood’s Oryx and Crake on my iPad. I work in a public library. Good books  follow me home. Most sit in the pile by the bed for a couple of months and then are returned, briefly opened, but unread. By the bed pile: Most  seem to be less known works by authors who have had a bestseller. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga Tales from Firozsha Bahg, Rohinton Mistry My Nine Lives, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Telling Tales, Melissa Katsoulis history of literary hoaxes. I almost bought it as “aeroplane reading” last time I was in Melbourne, but it didn’t look wonderfully marvellous, so I saved my $$ House of Horrors, Nigel Hawthorne about the guy in Austria who kept his daughter locked away and had a second family of several kids with her. I picked up just any book when I was testing things on the database, forgot to return it and so I’m somehow reading it – sensationalist and voyeuristic Moral Disorder, Margaret Attwood Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende Bleeding Kansas, Sara Paretsky set in Lawrence, Kansas where I spent a couple of weeks last year. Totally separate from the V. I. Washawski series Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger half way through then read a review panning the last third of the book, so have a dilemma – I’m enjoying it so far, do I want to ruin it by completing the story ? Not next to the bed pile These ones are on the “library book” shelf and I haven’t picked them up, or they are on their way back and I can’t quite part with them yet. The Triumph of the Airheads, Shelley Gare About the decline of public intellectual standards in Australia. Skimmed it already The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch Unread. ... Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:17:59 +0100 851849 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/vAGQ9la50R4/ For many a long weekend awaits and 30 posts in 30 days is taking it’s toll. Keeping up with posting yourself plus reading and commenting on blogs is time-consuming albeit fascinating. So Friday is the day of the meme and photo. There are a number of memes doing the rounds: Book meme passed on by @flexnib Television meme started by @malbooth Traversal meme started by @snailx Show us your home screen meme started by @jenelle About you meme passed on by @gigglesigh It is a great way to find out more about fellow bloggers. I know now for example that there are a number of Doctor Who fans amongst the group. UTS bloggers @malbooth and @misssophiemac continue to challenge librarians/libraries to be more creative. Drawing a link between creativity and innovation. I must say that I agree without innovation we will stagnate and lose relevancy to our users. It can be risky thinking outside of the box and pushing boundaries but the benefits for an organisation are worth the risk. Which ties in nicely with the post by New Technologies Interest Group on the Empowering Change report – a call for open government, social media use and innovation in the public service. It is important that libraries keep an eye on what is happening with Gov2.0. There was also some prolific blogging from @snailx who is reviewing films from the Sydney Film Fest.  I have already started a list of must see films. Photo posts included Con with pictures of her chis and Kate shared stories about her dogs Daisy, Memphis and Edie. Our other Kate posted some terrific photos of shoes and craft. Have a lovely long weekend to all those fortunate enough to have one. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:33:42 +0100 851832 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/th85u9MRmuU/ I’ve been reading the book meme (Con) , TV meme (Mal), travel meme (Ghylene), the film meme (snail), the two things about you meme (Ghylene) and the “what’s your start screen?” meme (Jenelle) in the 30 posts in 30 days blog posts. Rather than write a post for each of  the memes, here is the shrink-lit version. I snack with most activity, Reading Garner, Helen or Smith, Zadie. Books are never marked or mutilated, I remember where my eyes were situated. . I don’t watch news, I do download stuff Being Erica,  Big Bang, and Big Love 90 second ABC News on iPad saves my time (Which I wouldn’t spend with Channel Nine) . Amsterdam is furthest North I’ve been, Cygnet in Tasmania most Southern I’ve seen, Calcutta’s bustle, history and vigour I’d recommend But not to a squeamish or nervous friend . Being There, The Graduate, Singin’ in the Rain, I could watch again and again, I love movies shot with 3D Sound of Music I’m yet to see*. . Two names I’ve had (from my mum), Bugalugs and Sparrow Bum, I’ve worked in a parade as a clown And  in an orchard thinning apples down . Now for the starting screen Briefest one you will have seen ‘Cause this is a shrinklit one Here’s the ap that I find most fun . . . . .*not really, I just wanted to give snail a heart attack – seen it 5 times and sang along each time Post 12 of the  30 posts in 30 days challenge. (Source: Librarians matter) Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:50:56 +0100 851850 http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/06/some-reading-related-book-meme-thing.html I cannot resist blogging a book related meme, so when I saw this one over at Ruminations, I had to do it. Now Constance Wiebrands, the blogger at Ruminations, is doing some crazy do a post every day for 30 days challenge. I call it crazy only because I don't have time to blog every day. Constance is a lot braver than I am at this point. Heck, I am lucky these days if I can blog once a week. Work has just taken a big toll of blogging, but one has to work to make a living, so you get the idea. At any rate, I am going to do a little something for fun for a change.The meme then:Do you snack while reading? Not really. When I am on the computer, I will eat in front of it. I often take my lunch while working, and I am often catching up on news over lunch. However, I don't usually eat while reading books. The exception is when I travel. If I am in some strange place, usually by myself, and I have a good book, I will read while I eat. What is your favorite drink while reading? A good cup of coffee. I can do tea too, or a small alcoholic drink, say Irish cream and milk. However, drinking alcohol while reading is extremely rare for me. Do you tend to mark your books while you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you? If they are college textbooks, I don't mind marking them and making notes since I would usually need those notes later, and more often than not, the books are not keepers; they are getting sold back. Otherwise, I do not mark my books. I do make notes in my personal journal if I find passages in a book that interest me or that I want to remember. Overall, I do not like writing in books. The textbook exception is mostly because I see them as disposable (and often, since I bought them used, some other person may have already marked it, thus I don't feel obligated). How do you keep your place? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book open flat? Bookmarks. In fact, I have a small, but very nice collection of bookmarks. ... Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 851804 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/PGqWOG3lLtM/ Welcome to the commentary on day nine of the 30 posts in 30 days blogging event. I imagine that nine is an awkward number for this. The bigger milestone is tomorrow. If this were a marathon, day nine is when some people (like me) might start feeling the pain barrier. Anyway, this is what I noticed today, in no particular order- imaginings – if libraries didn’t need to worry about privacy, if a library was given a million dollars to improve circulation, a life where we have the time and means to be an artist memes – books (and a picture of a bookcase) and dinner and TV and more books useful professional ideas – not being so introspective and engaging with a broader group of stakeholders, Trove’s new list feature, using spreadsheets for data personal – pets, donating blood, purchases of books and bags, exhaustion, adjusting to being the mother of a teenager about blogging – where we draw lines between personal and professional and what goes on the blog, conserving ideas for future posts, how we got into blogging and how blogging has changed us discussion – Gov 2.0 in action, vodcast followed by a lively debate about the future of libraries in the post-gatekeeper era observations – Japanese chemist shops, ironic wardrobes, nuance, exhaustion and films life’s little victories – over white boards I am not a participant in this. I’m not a prolific blogger, maybe averaging at 12 posts per year. There are frequent moments when I wish I did more, but then I say to myself, less is more. I must admit to having some initial misgivings about this extended meme. I was worried that it could lead some padding, people blogging just because of the public commitment rather than 
because they really had a post to write. I was worried that the quality to quantity ratio would go through the floor. But no, I was wrong. Sometimes more is more. ... Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:12:02 +0100 851834 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/aGR4jZu_tcY/ Marketing guru Seth Godin has made a blog post listing a number of interesting suggestions to Amazon for how to win the e-book war. He suggests that Amazon should concentrate on price and come out with a stripped-down $49 “paperback” Kindle, that they could then give away free with purchase of a certain number of Kindle books, or with signing up for an e-book club. Writes Godin: The only way to get authors and publishers to embrace this device is to sell 20,000,000 of them. You either become the best and only platform for consuming books worth buying or you fail. And the only way to create that footprint in the face of an iPad is to make it so cheap to buy and use it’s irresistible. Godin has long been clueful about e-books. Back in 2001, he gave his book Unleashing the Ideavirus, about marketing via memes, away for free through Peanut Press. (I read it and found it fascinating. I wish I still had the Peanut Press/eReader version, but it has long since vanished from the site. He’s still giving away a PDF of it, though.) I agree that a $49 e-book reader would be a big advantage for whatever e-book seller is the first to come out with it. At the rate prices are falling overall, it’s probably not more than a year or two away. Related: Seth Godin on giving away e-books Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:15:00 +0100 851012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/N_haABZRzIo/ I must have spent a good work day today reading blogs – possible because I only worked half a day. I spent a large portion of my desk shift at work patiently going through Kate’s netvibes page. After returning home I resumed the task, and it’s now officially Day 9 of the challenge (at least in my time zone) and I am up to date with all of the blogs participating in this fabulous challenge. For the first time since it began. Chuffed? I think so. Zaana’s already summarised what’s happened meme-wise over the last few days, but I can see another meme emerging thanks to @KateTT, she’s set apubliclibrarian, ruminations and rien d’important thinking about their Fantasy Dinner Guests – and chefs. I’ve gotta say Ghylene, I think we’re on the same page there. Hamish without Andy but not the other way around – brilliant! Reading multiple posts from some of the blogs showed me how much we are feeding off each other – crafty posts started on the weekend have continued into the week, with Justgirlwithshoes making me wish I crocheted so I could keep my fingers as stylish as her daughter’s and liberrydwarf adding in her thoughts on the iPad. I was inspired by Bonito Club to blog about pets. Regular posts have begun to emerge as Walking Upside Down shares her weekly dinner menu (I can’t look at it as there are far too many carbs!) On stand-alone posts, I found out that I can give blood when I didn’t think I could thanks to moonflowerdragon and I continue to be moved by FromMelbin sharing memories of his brother with us. As it’s a weekday I notice a lot more library-related, or professional posts. I love the Librarians Matter post on blogging – definitely a think-post, and to me, a feel-post, as in we’re all still feeling our way through this blogging thing, and the personal/professional divide. ... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:09:10 +0100 851835 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/4L4txAdVhHQ/ Week 1 in the #blogeverydayinJune challenge has come to a close.  It’s been an exciting and productive week to say the least! I am most impressed that all participating bloggers remain on the bandwagon to date. It seems @flexnib with her Day 6 meme about reading habits provided some light relief for a third of the blogging enthusiasts, particularly as some enjoyed a WA public holiday. The meme has provided some interesting librarian type revelations – drinking tea seems to be the favourite drink whilst reading with some very specific tea requirements – Lady Grey or green tea on Angels have the Phonebox, Madura loos in a pot for Strawberries of Integrity, Daintree white no sugar for moonflowerdragon and the very specific strong English Breakfast tea with a drop of milk and no sugar for our meme originator ruminations. Coffee made a fleeting appearance but in its generic coffee form, no grande double skinny mocha latte with a half sugar to be found! I was quite surprised to learn that perhaps I am the only librarian who regularly defaces books by marking them and making notes in them (and dare I add I have done this to a number of library books in my time – slap!).  I am grateful to Virtually a Librarian for joining in me as a confessed ‘dog earer’. With more respectable librarians it seems whilst bookmarks are preferred its more likely a receipt of some kind will be used. I must admit I have never considered the idea of being irritated by a book enough to throw it – although my mother did raise me with an immense respect for books (I cut my doll’s hair and drew all over them but I never once defaced a book – well in my childhood anyway!) But two of our meme participants admitted to it – LiberryDwarf threw Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper and whilst Feral Librarian Tales admitted to the ‘crime’ declined to share the victim. ... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:23:19 +0100 851836 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/T0_7V1_6eoc/ …the librarians continued to blog. Personally, I’m not really sure what I was thinking when – without even a moment’s hesitation – I jumped on Con’s bandwagon and decided to join in with #posteverydayofjune. I have to tell you though, at 11.30pm on day six, the head scratching began in earnest: what on earth made me think I could blog more in a single month than I did in the last two years combined? And more importantly, what on earth could I possibly blog about, after a day of doing absolutely nothing? But not all #blogeverydayofjune-ers were similarly plagued. In fact, some of us managed to have our brains switched on to the important stuff, even on a Sunday. Kathryn continued in her quest to make ‘think’ posts throughout June, with a look at why she hasn’t left Facebook, while Michelle talked about motivation (and I wondered if she could possibly send some my way – though it’s not work related motivation I’m lacking, but motivation of the domestic kind). Sophie decried generalisations about the information seeking skills of the digital natives and told us that Information literacy is dead, long live information literacy (I hear you sister!). Over at Creative Circ, Ruth pondered whether academics should get longer loan periods than other university library customers – a slight challenge to me personally, as the equity-for-all librarian in me knew my reaction should be ‘of course not!’, while the academic with several research project balls in the air wanted to say ‘hell yes!’. On the non-library-world front, Penny kept the appliance love going, and Kate took us on travels of the literary, life and film varieties, from Sweden to Gungahlin to Abu Dhabi. ... Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:30:42 +0100 850200 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/05/memento-mori-muriel-spark-novel Muriel Spark's novel may be about the various physical and mental afflictions of old age, but far from being depressing or morbid, it is a wonderfully funny and exhilarating read, argues David Lodge'Memento Mori remains one of the great novels of the 1950s," Martin Stannard says in his excellent biography, Muriel Spark (2009), and indeed it does. But it was not a typical 50s novel, and it has not dated. Perhaps the only period-specific detail that would require annotation for younger readers is that cars parked in the streets at night in those days were obliged to have side and rear lights switched on. Formally the novel seems as fresh and original today as it did when it was first published, and thematically more relevant to the preoccupations and anxieties of the present century's first decade than to those of the 50s.The novel is about death – in itself a timeless subject – but specifically about death as variously perceived, feared, denied, and anticipated by the elderly. As medical treatment and technology continue to improve, especially in affluent developed countries, death is postponed longer and longer for more and more people, but this is a mixed blessing. We have to live longer with all the indignities and afflictions of old age, from incontinence to Alzheimer's, while we await the inevitable end, about which our secular materialistic society has nothing comforting to say. It is not surprising that a considerable number of novels and plays in the last decade or so have dealt with this subject matter – I have written one myself – but in the 50s it was an unusual choice for a youngish novelist at the beginning of her career.I say "youngish" because Spark was 41 when Memento Mori was published in 1959. ... Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:06:10 +0100 849700 http://www.outilsfroids.net/news/i-expo-2010-ne-ratez-pas-l-atelier-de-la-veille-a-l-analyse Evenements_ - InfosOutilsFroidsComme je vous le disais hier Véronique Mesguich et moi-même allons animer une pleinière et deux ateliers lors d'I-Expo. J'ai déjà parlé de la pléinière alors qu'en est-il du premier atelier? Premièrement il se tiendra le 9 juin de 14h à 17h. Deuxièmement il devrait être particulièrement intéressant puisqu'il regroupe des spécialistes d'un sujet trop souvent balayé d'un revers de la main, celui de l'analyse de l'information issue du travail de recherche et de collecte mené par les veilleurs. Présentation :Nous sommes passés presque sans transition d'une ère où trouver l'information était un effort, à une ère où elle abonde et doit être filtrée sous peine de nous submerger. Si les outils nous permettant d'y accéder sont innombrables (moteurs de recherche, annuaires, ...), il en va différemment de ceux qui nous permettent d'en tirer parti, car, quel que soit le... (Source: Outils Froids) Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:52:35 +0100 849359 http://bibliotheque20.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/cons-terr-de-bib-changez-de-carriere/ Attention billet corporo-corporatiste * Ce jour, j’apprends que mon statut a changé depuis le 1er janv 2010. Je vais m’intéresser à la carrière des conservateurs territoriaux de bibliothèques –  hors conservateur en chef (je m’y intéresserais ds 10 ans  ;^P ) Ce que je comprends : Fusion des grades 1ere classe et 2e classe des conservateurs territoriaux des bibliothèques Point positif : vous ne pouvez plus rester coller au grade de cons’ terr’ 2e classe 3e echelon (mais est-ce que cela arrivait ??) Point négatif : ca va etre un peu plus long d’accéder aux plus hautes strates Bon, je suis pas très expert en RH-Adm°. Ca m’a pas l’air franchement débile ni indécent – meme si je pense que globalement : c’est moins bien (vous me direz, c’est pas comme si on n’avait pas déjà le statut le plus pourri de toute la filière culturelle, qui elle-même a le statut le plus pourri de toute la FPT) Je vous laisse : Le tableau comparatif que j’ai fait : cons_comparatif le pdf d’avant : Tableau_Conservateurs_carriere les pdfs actuels : indices    cons_indice / Déroulement cons_duree   Source : décret : 2009-1582 et 2009-1583. Chercher : là  * ADDENDUM Simulation Avant , En 14 ans, si vs avez passé deux ans au 3e echelon de 2e classe, Vs avez gagné 100 - et êtes sur la dernière marche depuis 10 mois si vs avez passé un an au 3e echelon de 2e classe, Vs avez gagné : 103 – et êtes sur la dernière marche depuis 22 mois Après, En 14 ans, Vs avez gagné 100.5 - et êtes sur la dernière marche depuis 0 mois * NB : Formule très simple : Somme (Indice*durée min) à chaque échelon (Source: Des Bibliothèques 2.0) Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:24:52 +0100 850462 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/AjI71DQzE8E/ In the previous post I reviewed a video interview with the talented Jordan Frank from Traction Software, which was on social tools and ad-hoc processes. This video got me inquiring further into what others have said about this over the past couple of years. So I headed to my bookmark collection, and this post is what resulted. But first I’ll repeat a few highlights from Jordan’s interview: Workflow systems are great until they fail…a need to have a collaboration safety net. Collaboration is not necessarily about making the things that are planned go right, it’s about dealing with the things that are unplanned that go wrong It’s hard to troubleshoot when what happened till now is not easily accessible or not recorded in a raw fashion You can’t anticipate a workflow for fixing a problem (with social tools like Teampage) you can model informal processes on the fly Make sure when business conditions change your business processes don’t get left behind I also linked to one of Traction whitepaper’s that demonstrates the bottom-up enabling tools we now have to better cope with getting things done, and by default achieving the original aims of KM and being an agile organisation. Emergence by default Social computing is about many things: discovery, connection, conversation, emergence, crowdsourcing, transparency, engagement, innovation, collaboration, findability, diversity, sharing, learning, helping, sense-making… Helping and sense-making have an immediate impact eg. stuck on an issue, asking a question, getting an answer and moving on…whilst this happened others got to learn for free. In a way emergence happens anyway as a result of sense-making ie. emergence that surfaces from "In-the-flow" working, which is in contrast to "Above-the-flow" emergence (crowdsourcing, sharing your experience, etc). ... Sat, 29 May 2010 09:15:20 +0100 847946 http://bibliotheque20.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/le-user-content-est-il-compatible-avec-linstitution-culturelle-en-france-le-cas-nuit-des-musees-2010/ La nuit des musées. Evenement européen, formidable, qui, me semble t il, marche très bien. Les musées sont blindés, la soirée, pour peu qu’il fasse beau, toujours réussie : Tous les Francais se retrouvent ainsi au musée une fois par an. Franchement cette nuit des musées est une vraie réussite. La nuit des musées 2.0 En 2010, Fluctuat.net nous le rappelle, ils ont fait les choses en grand en matière de comm’ en ligne. Orchestré par la plume de l’incontournable Buzzeum : Blog compte twitter et hashtag dédié groupe flickr compte facebook et groupe (je crois, mais j’ai pas trouvé – je comprends décidément rien à Facebook) groupe dailymotion Comm’ avec affichage et “QR code” sur les affiches Mon point de vue sur les résultats L’institution à la très bonne idée de nous faire un retour chiffré et vrai sur cette nuit. Franchement c’est modique. Voyons-en quelques uns : Vous pouviez poser vos photos de la “Nuit” sur votre comptes flickr et les tagger pour qu’elles remontent. Résultat : 31 membre et 71 photos Vous pouviez poser vos vidéos de la “Nuit” sur votre comptes dailymotion et les tagger pour qu’elles remontent. Résultat : 14 membre et 18 vidéos – alors qu’il y avait des voyages à gagner !!! Franchement c’était le bon plan… Le compte Facebook n’est pas spécialement plein d’amis (d’autant que 75% d’entre eux doivent être des muséo-geeks du secteur) et le mur n’est pour ainsi dire pas commenté Le groupe sur Facebook (Heureusement Buzzeum nous donne le lien) aurait pu marcher (genre : “on fait un apéro géant au Louvre ce soir : qui en est ? ” – “Et nous, une beuh-tournante à Pompidou”), et a qd meme 1.800 fans. ... Fri, 28 May 2010 12:45:18 +0100 848610 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/05/25/may-25th-stream.html Posted acarvin: Zarrella: If you have 100k followers and 10% of users RT, & 10% of theirs also RT, etc, meme dies out in six generations. #g2e. Posted acarvin: Zarrella: the more links you tweet in an hour, each link gets fewer clicks. More clicks on wknds b/c fewer tweets then. #g2e. Posted ALA_TechSource: RT @librarythingtim: LibraryThing/Facebook integration, phase 1: Reviews http://bit.ly/d7H3c1. Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Wed, 26 May 2010 04:57:18 +0100 848123 http://www.figoblog.org/node/1985 Le W3C vient d'annoncer le lancement d'un groupe d'incubation "Bibliothèques et Web de données" (Library linked data). Pour moi, c'est l'aboutissement de plusieurs mois de réflexions, prises de contact, argumentation, maturation, explications, bref pas mal de travail pour aboutir à ce résultat, même si ce n'est qu'un début ! Je suis donc extrêmement heureuse de pouvoir vous en dire plus sur cette initiative. Pourquoi le W3C ? Le W3C est le principal organisme de normalisation du Web. Traditionnellement, les bibliothèques font un important travail de normalisation, soit au sein d’organismes propres à leur communauté (IFLA) soit au sein d’organismes de normalisation traditionnels (ISO, AFNOR). La normalisation est d'ailleurs perçue comme un réel atout de notre communauté. Aujourd’hui, la tendance est à la recherche de convergence, c'est-à-dire à ne plus faire des normes spécifiques à une communauté, mais des normes valables dans un environnement plus global. S’agissant de technologies de l’information, cet environnement global s’appelle le Web. Il est donc vital que les bibliothèques, aujourd’hui presque totalement absentes de la normalisation au W3C, se mobilisent et se coordonnent pour y participer. La participation à tous les groupes de normalisation qui travaillent sur des standards potentiellement applicables en bibliothèque est inenvisageable. Ces groupes sont trop nombreux, leur propos est souvent très technique et requerrait de mobiliser fortement les informaticiens des bibliothèques, ce qui est impossible. L’autre solution était donc de créer une structure, au sein du W3C, correspondant au domaine des bibliothèques, qui leur permettrait de s’exprimer en tant que communauté sur leurs besoins et leurs usages des normes du W3C. C'est le rôle de ce groupe. ... Fri, 21 May 2010 06:57:16 +0100 847534 http://figoblog.org/node/1985 Le W3C vient d'annoncer le lancement d'un groupe d'incubation "Bibliothèques et Web de données" (Library linked data). Pour moi, c'est l'aboutissement de plusieurs mois de réflexions, prises de contact, argumentation, maturation, explications, bref pas mal de travail pour aboutir à ce résultat, même si ce n'est qu'un début ! Je suis donc extrêmement heureuse de pouvoir vous en dire plus sur cette initiative. Pourquoi le W3C ? Le W3C est le principal organisme de normalisation du Web. Traditionnellement, les bibliothèques font un important travail de normalisation, soit au sein d’organismes propres à leur communauté (IFLA) soit au sein d’organismes de normalisation traditionnels (ISO, AFNOR). La normalisation est d'ailleurs perçue comme un réel atout de notre communauté. Aujourd’hui, la tendance est à la recherche de convergence, c'est-à-dire à ne plus faire des normes spécifiques à une communauté, mais des normes valables dans un environnement plus global. S’agissant de technologies de l’information, cet environnement global s’appelle le Web. Il est donc vital que les bibliothèques, aujourd’hui presque totalement absentes de la normalisation au W3C, se mobilisent et se coordonnent pour y participer. La participation à tous les groupes de normalisation qui travaillent sur des standards potentiellement applicables en bibliothèque est inenvisageable. Ces groupes sont trop nombreux, leur propos est souvent très technique et requerrait de mobiliser fortement les informaticiens des bibliothèques, ce qui est impossible. L’autre solution était donc de créer une structure, au sein du W3C, correspondant au domaine des bibliothèques, qui leur permettrait de s’exprimer en tant que communauté sur leurs besoins et leurs usages des normes du W3C. C'est le rôle de ce groupe. ... Fri, 21 May 2010 06:57:16 +0100 846769 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/iM7QoEZYzqY/ My posts of late have been on the DIY meme, which is possible now that we have enabling social tools. These grassroots tools empower you to achieve part of your vision, and hopefully your visibility will lead to others helping you finalise it. I’m hoping that my current project I’m tinkering on will be an example of this concept. I’m not building it using social tools, but I will spread the word using social tools. I figure you get more participation with some good design thinking. That’s why my vision is for a browserless desktop app that streams latest content from our CoPs and allows you post to the CoP eg. something like Tweetdeck. Now I’m not a techie person, I have limited skills…but my limited skills will get me further than trying to get something approved and developed. This idea would not be seen as important, but hopefully it will be once people are hooked on a Proof of Concept version. I have made a HTA file on my desktop that opens a little pop-up box. It lists all the blogs, forums and wikis that I regularly use, and even has links to the post entry form for each object. This is so much better than opening a browser and using my Favourites, and better than a desktop folder with lots of shortcuts. My little app is nicely presented as a list with some fancy javascript accordion features, and a window that rolls-up. BTW - I don’t understand how it works, I just found stuff on the net and chunked it together and tested and tweaked it till it worked. I can share this file so others can use it. Even better I have the contents of the file in an iFrame the refers to a HTML page on our server. This way I can write new versions and not have to re-issue people new files. Anyway, so far so good. But what I really want is to be able to publish content to the CoP from inside the app (which I can already do if the links open within the app, but this is not ideal). ... Sun, 16 May 2010 21:30:04 +0100 844613 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/08/pablo-picasso-politics-exhibition-tate Tate Liverpool's new exhibition explores Picasso's politics. Despite his devotion to the French communists, the artist really subscribed only to a party of one – himself. By Alex Danchev'Art is never chaste," said Pablo Picasso. "Art is dangerous." Picasso was not much of a speech-maker, but he could surely turn a phrase. His characteristic mode of intervention was single-burst point-scoring. He was a riddler. "Braque and James Joyce," he told Gertrude Stein, "are the incomprehensibles that anybody can understand." He relished the flip, the quip, the bon mot; he delighted in making mischief. "It's well-hung," he said, of a rival's exhibition. He who invented so much did not invent self-fashioning, but he is the supreme exemplar of artistic self-fashioning in modern times. He was a consummate self-publicist. "You can't be a sorcerer all day long," he remarked knowingly to André Malraux. It was but a short step from shaman to showman.When it came to his art, he was serious as a pope. Towards the end of the second world war, he was goaded by an interviewer on the relationship between art and politics. He interrupted the interview to hurl himself on a piece of paper and scribble a statement, a mini-manifesto, so that he would not be misunderstood. "What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes if he's a painter, ears if he's a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he's a poet – or even, if he's a boxer, only some muscles? Quite the contrary, he is at the same time a political being constantly alert to the horrifying, passionate or pleasing events in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously? No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. ... Fri, 07 May 2010 23:09:11 +0100 842253 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6088 BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations If you would like to receive the Buzz weekly via email, please sign up here. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below. * Stuart Shieber maximizes his irony. * Ethan Zuckerman maps the ROFLverse. * CMLP on science journalism online. * Doc Searls is reading an encyclopedia of economic history. * John Palfrey gears up to write a new book. * Weekly Global Voices: "Announcing the Breaking Borders Award Winners" * David Weinberger's book slips the leash. * ProjectVRM springs your shopping cart. * Peter Suber freezes the OAN blog. * Jake Shapiro posts his talk from the FCC's recent public media workshop. * A year ago in the Buzz: "Theater of the DMCA Anticircumvention Hearings" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The full buzz. "Justin Zobel has described his experience in submitting three papers to the 2002 WMSCI conference, all three completely unsuitable for publication in any venue whatsoever. (One, for instance, consisted of alternating sentences from two other papers on different topics. Zobel’s excerpts of the papers form very entertaining reading.) All three were accepted for publication with no reviews or comments provided, even after repeated prompting." From Stuart Shieber's blog post World’s most excruciatingly ironic conference? "Turns out I was underestimating ROFLCon. Yes, there were panels where the main question seemed to be, “What’s it like to be a microcelebrity”… which may have included the panel danah and I moderated. And yes, there’s nothing to make you feel old and decrepit like walking into a panel where you don’t know a single one of the internet memes being celebrated. (No, I’d never heard of cornify. ... Fri, 07 May 2010 22:00:00 +0100 842370 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/9UonWOjX6aU/ It’s been exactly a month since we last took a systematic look at the population of ebook price points in the Kindle Store, so it seems a good time for a fresh look after five weeks of experience with the agency model. under the agency model, we were told, some of the big publishers were colluding with Apple to take retail ebook pricing out of the hands of retailers such as the Kindle Store and replace Amazon’s standard of $9.99 as a price for newly released ebooks with a 30% to 50% increase to price points between $12.99 and $14.99. The remarkable news is that very little has changed when it comes to Kindle Store ebook prices, and if anything in the past 30 days the trends are toward lower prices. Alas, publishers! How can you make collusive price fixing work if some of you are playing for an edge and hoping that your partners, er, competitors will maintain their unpopular high prices? After a brief period in late March and early April when we saw slight increases in the percentage of books prices over $9.99, there have been small but significant decreases at the same levels since April 7. Among the 511,259 ebook listings in the Kindle Store as of 9 a.m. today, May 7, 2010, the total percentage of books prices above $9.99 has decreased from 22.69% to 21.73%, essentially a full percentage point. Meanwhile, while the percentage of titles priced at exactly $9.99 has decreased slightly from 11.01% to 10.62% during the past months, listings at all price points from 99 cents up to $9.98 have increased. Other recent trends: - The overall size of the Kindle Store catalog has continued to increase by about 800 titles a day, growing from about 487,000 on April 7 to over 511,00 this morning. - The increase of over 63,000 in the number of Kindle Store titles since February 25 is roughly equivalent to the total number of listings in Apple’s iBooks Store at launch. - The number of free titles in the Kindle Store declined from 4.2% to 4. ... Fri, 07 May 2010 17:10:34 +0100 842160 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/roflcon Via ROFLCon.org: It was a classic story as old as time: college kids grow up online, decide that it’d be a great idea to throw a internet culture conference, and unleash sheer ridiculousness upon the world. Back in April 2008, we put on the original ROFLCon — the first internet culture conference devoted to discussing what makes memes work, why they work, and where its all going (and then throwing a big-ass rocking party with the internet celebs themselves). It was a kickass time, not to mention the most important gatherings since the fall of the tower of Babel. We figured we’d keep doing this as long as it remains awesome (and it still is), so we’ve put together several more internet culture events. Will we ever stop? WHO KNOWS? More information at http://roflcon.org/ (Ethan Zuckerman & danah boyd will be keynoting this year), plus: webcast!   (Source: Berkman Blog) Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:00:00 +0100 840214 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/04/27/desvelamos-en-exclusiva-el-final-de-lost/ ¡Cuidado!, este post puede contener spoilers Indudablemente, alguien con un titular como el que he asignado a este post tendría, y si fuese realmente cierto, dinamita en sus manos . Los responsables de la serie, que ha revolucionado la forma de seguirlas, guardan a buen recaudo ese enigmático final y se mantiene en absoluto secreto. Si algo ha puesto de moda Lost ha sido el spoiler, lo que antiguamente se llamaba “pisar” la historia. Hoy, el spoiler de Lost se debe cotizar muy caro. Hay quien vendería su alma al diablo por conocer cómo finalizan las aventuras de los supervivientes del 815 Oceanic. Les propongo un meme. Escriban en su blog cómo creen que será el desenlace de Lost. Yo, aunque adiviné que el Humo Negro sería determinante en la historia, cuando apenas se sabía algo de él, tengo alguna idea acerca de qué sucederá. Sin embargo, lo que sí me gustaría es un final acorde no solo con el fondo sino también con la forma con la que se ha desarrollado la serie desde aquél lejano 22 de septiembre de 2004, en el que un tal Jeffrey Jacob Abrams nos sirvió las impactantes imágenes de un avión recién estrellado en una isla desierta. La última escena tiene que ser sorprendente como en cada capítulo de estas seis temporadas. Quedan tantos misterios por resolver que no hay espacio suficiente, hasta el último episodio a emitir el próximo 23 de mayo, para desvelarlos todos. Así que, salvo un giro rocambolesco, absolutamente inesperado de los guionistas, preveo una de cal y otra de arena. Descubriremos algunas cuestiones pero otras se quedarán en el tintero y, posiblemente, nos quedaremos con una nueva incógnita que de para escribir rios de tinta. Eso sería, al fín y al cabo, ser coherentes. Pero el 23 de mayo, millones de fans en todo el mundo van a ver el último capítulo al mismo tiempo. Aquí, en España, la cadena Cuatro está obligada a prepararnos fuegos artificiales. ... Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:36:39 +0100 840820 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-did-governor-strickland-know-about.html So what ever happened to Eric McFadden, Governor Strickland's $75,000 a year head of "Faith based and Community Initiatives?" He was arrested and charged with 7 felonies involving prostitution in January 2009. The 46-year-old Dublin resident began serving a one-year prison sentence last August 25 at the Madison Correctional Institution for posting photos of a 17 year old girl on the internet and offering her for sex. He is slated to be freed August 8, 2010 according to the state department of corrections. Seems like an awfully light sentence, but then he does have good friends among the Democrats. In fact, not much was written about this so will anyone notice when he gets out and registers as a sex offender? Or will his Democrat cronies take care of him again? Looks like the Guv didn't do a very good background check. As I was searching for information on the outcome, I came across a pro-life blogger, Carol McKinley, who says she had a lot of trouble with him and reported him to the Catholic group who employed him."For instance, starting somewhere in 2005, I endured an 18 month round. I employed various strategies on my own trying to get McFadden to stop. Somewhere in late 2006, McFadden started sending his kooky messages signing his name as "Eamon". Then, McFadden put up a blog named "Eamon". In my ignorance of who and what "Eamon" was, I did a google search using the name "Eamon". Eamon is a musician who speaks about women in sexually charged, violent vulgar and degrading lyrics - including, you guessed it, pimping women. I'll post a link to his lyrics with the caveat you read them at your own risk as the vulgarity and sexual nature is grotesque. [see her site for link] Since the lyrics were similar to McFadden's meme in leaving comments and sending emails, I naturally connected the dots and thought to myself, I best be escalating protecting myself and my family. ... Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 838975 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/ZKN1Hh_-Lwc/2764-search-news.html Here are some of the search and search engine relevant articles we have found on the Web this week: Hulu to Begin Charging for Programming Hulu, the online television site, is going to start requiring payment for some of its programming (ReadWriteWeb Apr 22 2010) YouTube Video Rental Store Now Open YouTube has quietly begun offering a variety of movies and TV episodes available for rental at youtube.com/store. (ReadWriteWeb Apr 22 2010) More open than thou: Blogger battle rages over new Facebook tools It’s a fundamentally different way of mapping the web via people’s real social relationships and affinities toward things like music, books and local venues (Socialbeat Apr 23 2010) Privacy issues? Google engineers leaving Facebook in droves The main issue is that there are concerns that Facebook, by default, now opts you in to allowing third party sites like Yelp (TechCrunch Apr 23 2010) Yahoo to Add Twitter & Facebook Updates to Search Results Chief executives from Yahoo told an FT blogger this afternoon they will jump into “social search” this year. (SE Watch Apr 23 2010) Google Sued Over Search Suggestion A Wisconsin resident blames Google for Web content that links her name to a drug for sexual dysfunction. (Informationweek Apr 23 2010) How Blippy users' credit cards got into Google The problem began when Blippy made a few changes to its Web site code, exposing the raw data (Cnet Apr 23 2010) Blippy User’s Credit Card Number Found in Google Again Blippy, the site for sharing your credit card transactions with friends, had made credit card numbers of some users visible in Google searches. (Mashable Apr 25 2010) Google Denies Google Maps Navigation on Apple's iPhone Is a Certainty Google Maps Navigation, the free turn-by-turn GPS app, isn’t a shoe-in to appear on Apple’s iPhone despite recent blog reports. ... Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:08:11 +0100 839389 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/researchbuzz/main/~3/owtF0g9pPeI/ NARA did an assessment of the records management programs at Federal agencies. Here’s your takeaway quote: “Nearly 90% of Federal agencies responded to the self-assessment. The National Archives found that 79% of agencies are at either a High (36%) or Moderate (43%) risk of improper destruction of records.” WebmasterWorld has built its own search engine to help users find content. WMW has been around for ages so it doesn’t surprise me that the search engine is indexing over 900 MB of content. Story at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022049.html. Firefox 3.6.4 is now available in beta for download and testing. Lady takes her dog for a walk, ends up on Google Street View 43 times. Somebody mix this up with Crasher Squirrel, and we’ll have ourselves a meme… Officials from 10 countries talk to Google about concerns about Google Buzz and other privacy issues. (Like, taking your dog out for a walk and ending up on Google Street View 43 times?) A summary of Yahoo’s quarterly results in the SF Chronicle. From MIT’s Technology Review: the annual 10 Emerging Technologies List. Ben & Jerry’s announced a new flavor yesterday — Bonnaroo Buzz, named after the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. “The flavor concoction contains light coffee and malt ice creams with whiskey caramel swirls and English toffee pieces.” Gee, I wonder why they announced it yesterday? Good morning, Internet… (Source: ResearchBuzz) Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:21:27 +0100 837845 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalReference/~3/AuUOzBfU780/frogheart Citability.org Making permalinks for each stage in the life of a government document (especially legislation). Memento: Adding Time to the Web Experiment to come up with a protocol that will make time a key dimension of publication info for web documents. (Source: Digital Reference) Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:00:00 +0100 837512 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/18/luke-jennings-blood-knots-fishing From the moment his father bought him his first fishing rod at the age of eight, Luke Jennings was hooked. In this extract from his novel Blood Knots, the writer and critic tells of a lifelong obsession with the mysteries of the underwater world and the artistry of fishing – and of the enormous debt he owes the man who made a real fly fisherman of him, Robert NairacBy closing time there's not much traffic going past the King's Cross goods yards. You can hear the distant rumble of the cars on the Euston Road, but in the yards it's quiet. And very cold. To get to the canal you have to duck underneath an advertising hoarding and push open an iron gate. Beyond it there's a railway maintenance area piled with concrete railway sleepers and rusted steel rods. Overlooking this are two low sheds. Some of the yard is lit by the sodium glare of the lights on Goods Way, while most of it is black shadow. At the top of the yard there's the sharp smell of fox shit. The second gate's hard to see, concealed behind wild lilac, but I know it's there, just as I know to avoid the razor wire that loops above it. The gate swings open. In front of me, flat and metallic, is the canal. It's deep at this point, a great tank of water held between banks of Victorian brick. Opposite me, on the far bank, is the dark mass of a disused warehouse. At its base, as if awaiting collection from the towpath, stands an old spin-dryer. Everything about the place suggests neglect. And big pike thrive on neglect.However, this is not where I've come to fish. I've come to fish downstream of here, in a place I've been tipped off about. My source is Dejohn. Most fishermen will tell you anything, just for the hell and the geniality of it, but Dejohn's information is usually good. Aged 14 and a habitual truant, he knows every inch of this stretch. We're not friends, exactly, but we talk.I saw him a week ago at the Vale of Health Pond on Hampstead Heath. ... Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:05:09 +0100 836547 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/17/truth-leo-david-yelland-review Mal Peet on a homily that misses its markDavid Yelland is a former editor of the Sun; he is a recovering alcoholic; his wife died of cancer when their son was eight. These bare facts (about which Yelland is publicly candid) elicit conflicting responses, as does this, his first book for children, which is quasi-autobiographical, heartfelt and expiatory. It is, he tells us, "the story of what might have happened to me and my son if I hadn't stopped drinking alcohol."Ten-year-old Leo Rake lives with his father, a doctor who monsters himself with vodka every night and spends the days in hygienic denial. The room symbolically at the top of the house was the sanctuary of Leo's artistic, loving and now deceased mother. Inside it, Leo knows, is the Memory Box, his mother's bequest to him. It contains mementos of their past and her birthday messages to his future self. His father keeps the room locked. At school, he is picked on by his teacher, Manders, a preening bully with detritus in his beard.Leo is isolated by – and complicit in – the conspiracy of silence that cloaks his father's problem. Then he is befriended by a new classmate, the gentle but doughty Flora, who understands him because she too has an alcoholic parent. One night, drunk Dr Rake sets fire to the house. Leo fights his way up to his mother's room, forces his way in, and tries in vain to retrieve the Memory Box.With Flora's adventurous support, Leo recovers from this double catastrophe and achieves a double triumph. Thanks to Leo, the prime minister (a Mr Green) visits the school – where he was himself a victimised pupil – to open the new library; instead of delivering his prepared speech on the economy to the attendant media, he ringingly denounces the ghastly Manders. Dad returns from rehab fresh as a daisy, carrying a new football and a salvaged 18th-birthday card from his mother, the text of which forms the final chapter. ... Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:10:05 +0100 836275 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-sort-of-archive.html Archiving mementos at Section 60: Curators collect items left at Arlington cemetery Without a national memorial to the more than 5,300 service members who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, Section 60 has become its own community of remembrance. Thousands of mementos left at their graves stand testament to the grief of loved ones. Crown Royal whiskey bottles, war medals, birth announcements, wedding photos, Christmas ornaments, GI Joe action figures, painted rocks, church bulletins, a fishing lure, even a rubber duck are among the items left at the graves of the more than 600 from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who are buried at Arlington. Families gather for birthday parties for the fallen, leaving behind cupcakes and balloons. War orphans drop off handmade valentines. Twenty-somethings with crewcuts and military boots smoke a cigar and set an empty beer bottle next to a buddy's white grave marker.Arlington is a working cemetery, not a museum, not a memorial. For years items left at the cemetery were thrown away in an effort to keep it clean and presentable. But last fall a request was made to begin to collect items left at the gravesides. Every Thursday, military curators gather non-perishable items, photograph them, and then bag them up and take them with them. They're intentionally not accessessioning them, to prevent them from becoming specifically military property, but they are saving them until a next step can be determined. Someday, I'm sure, there will be a memorial to those who have fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan, but until that time, curators are preserving history for us. Kudos to them, and to their effort. As one of the women interviewed for the article (who found out she was pregnant a few day after husband's death) said: When they see a card left from a 2-year-old or a balloon left welcoming a son that they never met, I think that makes more of an impact. It makes Americans a little bit more thankful or appreciative.She's right. ... Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 837206 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/04/14/library-of-congress-to-archive-all-public-tweets-since-march-2006/ The Library of Congress has tweeted that it will to archive all public tweets made since March 2006. Here's an excerpt from the blog announcement: Have you ever sent out a "tweet" on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress. That’s right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions. We thought it fitting to give the initial heads-up to the Twitter community itself via our own feed @librarycongress. (By the way, out of sheer coincidence, the announcement comes on the same day our own number of feed—followers has surpassed 50,000. I love serendipity!) We will also be putting out a press release later with even more details and quotes. Expect to see an emphasis on the scholarly and research implications of the acquisition. I'm no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data. And I'm certain we'll learn things that none of us now can even possibly conceive. Related Posts "Data Curation and Libraries: Short-Term Developments, Long-Term Prospects" ARL Goes Social, Now on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and YouTube NDIIPP Podcast: Babak Hamidzadeh Discusses the Library of Congress' Digital Repository MementoFox Add-on for FireFox Released Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:01:23 +0100 836449 http://www.shore.com/commentary/weblogs/2010/04/need-for-public-future-of-todays-local.html Westport, Connecticut offers its residents many benefits, one of which is an excellent public library that has become an ever more central component of our community. As prime local retail storefronts have been overtaken by national and regional chains and the Web absorbs much of our attention for personal contact, our library serves as not just a repository for knowledge but increasingly as the primary pubic facility used by many citizens. A storm knocks out your power for a few days? Camp out at the library and use the wireless and PCs to keep in touch with the world. Need a place to socialize or hold a business meeting in a place that's not too commercial? Grab a coffee at the library cafe or use one of its meeting rooms - that is, if you're lucky enough to be able to book one.The problems and opportunities that our public library faces were the focus of a recent public forum that I attended, a meeting that drew some thoughtful citizens to respond to the library staff's planning efforts. What came through loud and clear from this session is that in spite of the "the Web is killing libraries" meme that is popular in some circles these days, our library suffers not from lack of use but rather from overuse. Its books, reference desk, reading rooms, book clubs, online databases and Web site, lectures, equipment rentals and childrens' programs are the focus of so many people in our community that competition for access to them is creating some hard choices for the library's planners. How does a public library adjust its resources and programs to serve a public that is hungry for far more than just access to books on shelves?The answer to this question is complicated by the changing nature of content. ... Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 836968 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/ir5aeEzmZzc/ Open access publishers’ code of conduct attracts scrutiny http://icio.us/ltgsdd # Comcast Sees The Downside To Winning Their Net Neutrality Case http://icio.us/pm5fm2 # Omeka 1.2 Released http://bit.ly/b5ivuh # "Digital Repositories at a Crossroads: Achieving Sustainable Success through Campus-wide Engagement" http://bit.ly/9wkcVv # Digital Library Application Developer at Princeton Theological Seminary http://bit.ly/bu81ep # American Society of Media Photographers and Others File Copyright Infringement Suit against Google http://bit.ly/b5MtTR # Digital information seekers: How academic libraries can support the use of digital resources http://icio.us/pevu44 # Four JISC repository infrastructure projects http://icio.us/3fmkgl # New Zealand whole of domain web harvest: 12 – 25 May 2010 http://icio.us/01rlhk # After Appeals Court Decision, Whither Net Neutrality? http://icio.us/ifrqak # Facing $1 Million Shortfall, ALA To Furlough Staff for One Week http://icio.us/tipngq # International Cross-project Development Team Kicks Off Coordination Sessions in London http://icio.us/utgz0i # [Open Access Policy at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law] http://icio.us/32v3gc # ROARMAP Update: 6 New Green Open Access Mandates 149-154 http://icio.us/532t31 # Updating realistic access http://icio.us/cdcky3 # The Trouble with ACTA http://icio.us/ydtc2z # Internet cut-offs, website censorship about to drop on UK http://icio.us/no5dma # Court Ruling Will Stall FCC’s Broadband Plan http://icio.us/adornd # Faculty Survey 2009: Key Strategic Insights for Libraries, Publishers, and Societies http://bit.ly/bgccg7 # "Using Cloud Services for Library IT Infrastructure" http://bit.ly/cjmxhn # Institutional Repository Librarian at Eastern Illinois University http://bit.ly/deO0ha # The Digital Information Seeker: Report of the Findings from Selected OCLC, RIN, and JISC User Behaviour Projects http://bit. ... Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:00:00 +0100 834674 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/04/11/last-weeks-digitalkoans-tweets-2010-04-11-18/ Open access publishers’ code of conduct attracts scrutiny http://icio.us/ltgsdd # Comcast Sees The Downside To Winning Their Net Neutrality Case http://icio.us/pm5fm2 # Omeka 1.2 Released http://bit.ly/b5ivuh # "Digital Repositories at a Crossroads: Achieving Sustainable Success through Campus-wide Engagement" http://bit.ly/9wkcVv # Digital Library Application Developer at Princeton Theological Seminary http://bit.ly/bu81ep # American Society of Media Photographers and Others File Copyright Infringement Suit against Google http://bit.ly/b5MtTR # Digital information seekers: How academic libraries can support the use of digital resources http://icio.us/pevu44 # Four JISC repository infrastructure projects http://icio.us/3fmkgl # New Zealand whole of domain web harvest: 12 – 25 May 2010 http://icio.us/01rlhk # After Appeals Court Decision, Whither Net Neutrality? http://icio.us/ifrqak # Facing $1 Million Shortfall, ALA To Furlough Staff for One Week http://icio.us/tipngq # International Cross-project Development Team Kicks Off Coordination Sessions in London http://icio.us/utgz0i # [Open Access Policy at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law] http://icio.us/32v3gc # ROARMAP Update: 6 New Green Open Access Mandates 149-154 http://icio.us/532t31 # Updating realistic access http://icio.us/cdcky3 # The Trouble with ACTA http://icio.us/ydtc2z # Internet cut-offs, website censorship about to drop on UK http://icio.us/no5dma # Court Ruling Will Stall FCC’s Broadband Plan http://icio.us/adornd # Faculty Survey 2009: Key Strategic Insights for Libraries, Publishers, and Societies http://bit.ly/bgccg7 # "Using Cloud Services for Library IT Infrastructure" http://bit.ly/cjmxhn # Institutional Repository Librarian at Eastern Illinois University http://bit.ly/deO0ha # The Digital Information Seeker: Report of the Findings from Selected OCLC, RIN, and JISC User Behaviour Projects http://bit. ... Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 834936 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/04/ten-books-meme.html I came across the "Ten Books that Influenced Me" meme from this post by Dean Dad at Inside Higher Ed. The thing that rubs me about people who usually do a meme like this is that they pick highly pretentious stuff. It is usually an exercise in telling the world how well read the author is by telling us they got through James Joyce's works or some rare book on semiotics. Dean Dad at least mentions Mad magazine and Dr. Seuss. I am sure librarians have done this at one point or another, but I was not able to find any with a quick search. Hey, any librarians out there who did do this exercise, do let me know. I am always curious to see what other people out there are reading.Well, folks, I am not listing some big fancy book on semiotics (though I read one or two back in graduate school). I am not pretending that I am hot stuff because I plowed through some obscure critical theory book (yep, did that too), or read some literary fiction that only a few academics know about (yes, read some of that as well). In making this list, I am going for the books that have actually stuck with me and have actually told me something. The ones that actually moved me, or taught me something, or that to this day make me smile. If you want fancy lists of thick books that only a few read (or pretend to read) and even fewer are pompous enough to admit it, go someplace else. Here is my no nonsense list of ten books that have had some degree of influence in my life. They are listed in no particular order.The Bible. Whether people love or hate this book (or collection of books if you want to get technical about it), the Bible has a great influence in society and history. Whether as a force of good or evil, you can't get along without at least some passing knowledge of its contents. Since I was raised Roman Catholic, I had to study this book quite a bit. I am a Catholic school survivor, so to speak. The one good thing I took away from that was the discipline. ... Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:00:00 +0100 834607 http://www.precisement.org/blog/Henri-IV-est-une-marque-ou-la.html « Henri IV est une marque — nous l'avons dit à son proviseur — parce qu'il a une notoriété considérable » : ainsi s'exprimait M. Errera, de l'APIE, lors du colloque Sécurité et Liberté : un nouvel équilibre pour les données personnelles et publiques sur internet ? [1], organisé le 25 septembre 2009 par les étudiants du Master 2 Pro de droit public de l'Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, notamment Rebecca Théry. Son intervention est extrêmement (...) (Source: Un blog pour l’information juridique) Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 833697 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/04/05/mementofox-add-on-for-firefox-released/ Herbert Van de Sompel. Michael L. Nelson, and Robert Sanderson have announced the release of the MementoFox Add-on. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: We are excited to share some news about the Memento (Time Travel for the Web) effort. Memento proposes to extend HTTP with datetime content negotiation as a means to better integrate the present and past Web. The Memento effort is partly funded by the Library of Congress. =>The MementoFox add-on for FireFox browsers has been released. It allows time travel on the Web in a manner compliant with the Memento framework. (*) The MementoFox add-on can be downloaded at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/100298. (*) Suggested Web time travels that can be undertaken using the add-on are described at http://www.mementoweb.org/demo/. They involve navigations for both the document Web and the Linked Data cloud. => There is also a Memento plug-in available for the MediaWiki platform. The plug-in provides support for Memento-style navigation of a Wiki's history pages. (*) The MediaWiki plug-in can be downloaded at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Memento. (*) If you run a MediaWiki platform, please install this plug-in and let us know the URI of your Wiki. See also: Memento project website. Related Posts No related posts. (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 833222 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/KBh_J25Zf58/ TechCrunch reports that the New York Times is raising its rates for electronic delivery. The “E-Edition” of the paper is going from $14.99 to $19.99 per month, and the Kindle version is going from $13.99 to $19.99 per month for new subscriptions and starting in 6 months for existing subscriptions. Presumably, the iPad edition will be at the same $19.99 monthly rate. PaidContent points out that this is still less than half the cost of having the print edition delivered ($46 per month), but it’s still a hefty bump for people used to the older pricing. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal has announced the price of its iPad edition will be $17.29 per month—whereas subscriptions to the print and on-line edition are currently only $11.67 per month and the on-line only rate works out to $8.62 per month. Rupert Murdoch must really hate iPad users. Mike Masnick at TechDirt has a really great editorial pointing out that there seems to be a fairly strong meme going around that the iPad is somehow supposed to “save” traditional publishing, but the noises they’re making sound suspiciously like what was said about the CD-ROM during the revolutionary days of the ‘90s. The media is running to the iPad because they think it’s magically going to transport them back to a world where there is scarcity and they can charge ridiculous prices again. The Wall Street Journal, for example, is apparently offering an iPad app that’s more expensive per week than getting a combined subscription to both the paper version and the online version. There’s a lot of wishful thinking going on here. Will the iPad “save” publishing? Or will this play out like a second coming of the CD-ROM—which, while ubiquitous now, has not substantially changed the face of publishing in the way proponents thought it would? We’ll just have to wait and see. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:21:18 +0100 832304 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/04/15-things-about-me-and-books.html Yes, it's the old meme. I got reminded of it by the Pegasus Librarian. By the way, she links to a few other people who have done it if you are curious. Anyhow, this seems like a nice reflective exercise, and since I have not been blogging in a while, which could be a topic for another post, I going to use it as a way to get back on track.So, here goes:One of the earliest books I remember receiving as a gift was a copy of Fábulas de Iriarte. It was a children's edition. "Fábulas" is the Spanish word for "fable." It was basically a collection of fables; it was illustrated and very colorful. A gift from one of my aunts.I read The Illiad as a child; I don't think I was in my teens yet. Basically my mother suggested it since she noticed I liked classical mythology a lot. I had been reading Hamilton's Mythology around that time. That copy of The Illiad was in Spanish translation. My mother was a big fan of Agatha Christie. She would read them in Spanish translation. The editions were published by Editorial Molino (Spanish Wikipedia entry; I could not find an English version), and they were pretty affordable paperbacks. The publishing house was known for publishing many famous popular authors. To this day, some of their editions are big collectibles. Anyhow, mom had a lot of those Agatha Christie editions, and seeing them on the shelf is one of my memories of her. For her, getting a new Christie mystery was a favorite gift. I remember when she finally read Curtain, the novel that deals with Hercule Poirot's last case. She was not happy at all about the ending. I have read a few Agatha Christie novels, in part because I wanted to know what it was appealed so much to my mother. I personally like those featuring Hercule Poirot the most.Going back to that edition of The Illiad, it was part of a collection of literary classics my parents acquired over time. ... Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:38:00 +0100 832473 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/cmbcqVUcT3I/ Prompted by a DevCSI Developer Focus Group conference call just now, I had a quick look through the list of Bounty competition entries (and the winners to see whether there was any code that that might be fun to play with. One app that’s quite fun is a simple app by Chris Gutteridge (Wayback/Memento Animation) that animates the history of a website using archived copies of the site from the Wayback Machine. So for example, here’s the animated history of the OU home page And here are links to the history of the current Labour Party and Conservative Party domains: The animated history of: http://www.labour.org.uk/ and The animated history of: http://www.conservatives.com/. The app will also animate changes from a MediaWiki wiki as this link demonstrates: Dev8D wiki changes over time. (I can’t help thinking it needs: a) a pause button, so at least you can scroll up and down a page, if not explore the site; and b) a bookmarklet, to make it easier to get a site into the replayer;-) The Dev8D pages also suggest a “Web Diff” app was entered in one of the challenges, but I couldn’t see a link to the app anywhere? Diffs have been on my mind lately in a slightly different context, in particular relating to the changes made to the Digital Economy Bill on the various stages it went through as it passed through the Lords, but here again a developer challenge event turned up the goods, in this case the Rewired State: dotgovlabs held last Saturday and @1jh’s Parliamentary Bill analyser: So for example, if we compare the Digital Economy Bill as introduced to the Lords: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200910/ldbills/001/10001.i-ii.html and the version that was passed to the Commons: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmbills/089/10089.i-iii. ... Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:51:40 +0100 830374 http://www.shore.com/commentary/weblogs/2010/03/enterprise-publishing-and-new-normal-in.html I've been mini-blogging quite a bit lately on Google Buzz - you can pick up my feed here if you'd like until I brain out a way to integrate it into my newsletter - so I have been a little quieter than usual on ContentBlogger. One of the more interesting items I've come across in buzzing is a great article from CIO Magazine that outlines the enormous value gap that's been arising in enterprise information technologies. With the latest economic downturn many major organizations began to look much more carefully at what kind of value that they were getting from their I.T. operations. In a nutshell, many organizations didn't like what they saw. Some of the key items revealed by CIO Magazine included:Fewer than half of people in enterprises are using installed software effectively60 percent of enterprise staffs blame their I.T. departments for a "lack of success"In 2009, I.T.'s top priority is modernizing legacy applicationsWalt Shill, head of the North American management consulting practice for Accenture, declared that "strategy, as we knew it, is dead." It's now all about operational flexibility and how fast businesses can seize opportunity. If strategies and forecasts have to change daily or weekly, then so be it.Although this may cause enterprise information services companies jump for joy at first reading, I have to suggest that it should be a strong cause for alarm for them to consider. While this may mean that enterprises are going to rely upon external and information service providers more frequently to get the jobs done that their I.T. departments cannot get done, it also means that the trend towards agnosticism in finding solutions to information problems is only going to get stronger. Whatever platform, tool or information service can solve the job today will get used, as long as it's affordable and helps major organizations adapt to their needs. ... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0100 826729 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/vyyQNbYLTYA/world-war-i-postcards-from-bowman-gray.html "The Gray postcard site features a collection of war-themed cards produced in Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and the U.S. during World War One (1914-1918). More than 6,400 cards will eventually be displayed in a CONTENTdm collection. These will be searchable and browsable by different categories. The cards were collected as mementos of a world at war during the second decade of the 20th century. The Gray website will serve students, researchers and postcard collectors with an interest in the period of World War One in general or the propaganda and documentation of the "Great War" in particular. These cards are historical artifacts that are not only often beautiful examples of the lithographer's art but are also of interest to students of art, military, and political history. They are early manifestations of general photographic documentation and important evidence from the golden era of postal cards" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:55:37 +0100 826186 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5988 BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations If you would like to receive the Buzz weekly via email, please sign up here. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below. * David Weinberger turns out an aphorism, expertly. * Doc Searls responds to Pew's Future of the Internet IV survey. * Ethan Zuckerman blogs John Wilbanks' talk on generativity in science. * Herdict is looking for a few good sheep. * Harry Lewis on the "madness" of criminal libel in France. * Internet & Democracy chews changes from the Office of Foreign Assets Control. * CMLP reviews the copyright confusions of Walsh against Walsh. * Chilling Effects tallies up "innocent infringer" damages. * Future of the Internet updates the TiVo / EchoStar saga. * A year ago in the Buzz: "Introducing MediaCloud" * Weekly Global Voices: "Haiti: Two Months Later" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The full buzz. "Because of some talks I’m giving, I’ve been thinking about how to put the concrete effects the change in expertise has for the authority of business. I want to say that in the old days, we took expertise and authority as the last word about a topic. Increasingly, the value of expertise and authority is as the first word — the word that frames and initiates the discussion." From David Weinberger's blog post [2b2k] Authority as having the first word "Yet money can still be made with goods and services — even totally commodified ones. Amazon makes money with back-end Web services such as EC2 (computing) and S3 (data storage). Phone, cable and other carriers can make money with “dumb pipes” too. They are also in perfect positions to offer low-latency services directly to their many customers at homes and in businesses. ... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:35:00 +0100 826071 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/03/thursday-thirteen-13-things-to-be-happy.html Have you ever seen the book "14,000 things to be happy about" by Barbara Ann Kipfer? I picked up a copy years ago at a used book sale for $1. She says for 20 years she made notes in her journals, beginning in 6th grade, and then compiled the "little things" for this book. So, for awhile I'm going to recall 13 things that made me happy beginning on the previous Friday, March 5.1) I found a new apple this week, Lady Alice, from Washington state. No one knows where she came from---she just "growed," and since I eat an apple every day I was thrilled to find one to fill in for my favorite, Honey Crisp.2) We had dinner with our friends Rod and Judi at the Worthington Inn. We enjoy their company, and hadn't been to that restaurant in probably 25 years. It was featured also in this month's Capital Style.3) It was sunny for days, 53 degrees on Monday, 58 Tuesday, 61 on Wednesday--warm enough to walk the neighborhood. We're so sunlight deprived in central Ohio, that people are almost giddy when the sun is out. 4) On my walks I picked up trash and replaced pieces of sod--both the result of deep snow being removed by the plows. Found a wheel cover and propped it against a wall so it could be seen--then 10 ft. further I found the emblem from the center of the cover and took it back to the cover and attached it.5) We're in the season of Lent. We're communion servers at our church UALC, which is a wonderful opportunity, and because of mid-week services, we serve more often than usual.6) Not exactly happy--but I did get a good laugh. My husband had scheduled a "paint out" for an art group which fell on our 50th wedding anniversary. He's president of the group. Yes, we've changed it (the paint out, not the anniversary)!7) The mallards are in love, mating and chasing each other around our street. Sort of cute, but you do have to be careful--the chase is slow and they aren't afraid of automobiles. ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825414 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PegasusLibrarian/~3/124BjFKiRk4/15-things-about-me-and-books.html Photo by Lin Pernille A while back, some other librarians revived an old meme. Way back then, I started this list. Today, I found it in my drafts. I was a late reader. I don’t remember exactly how late (being home schooled at that point was probably a blessing). I do remember being a little mortified when my younger sister and I were both reading the Little House books at the same time. She’s six years younger, and was a very early reader. I think she was four at the time. Part of our normal school day included my mom reading aloud to us. She did this well into my middle school years (at which point my youngest brother was probably 4-ish). She read everything from Charlotte’s Web to the Lord of the Rings while we kids did quiet crafts on the living room floor. The saddest I’ve ever been at the end of a book was when the dogs died in Where the Red Fern Grows. Mom was reading it aloud, and we kids were scattered around the room trying not to look at each other as we each bawled softly. What a day. I remember being curled up under the coffee table and pretty sure I’d never come out again. Dad tried to read to us at bedtime up until I was about 11. He was insanely busy getting a PhD from Harvard, though, so books would take us an astonishingly long time to finish. To this day I think of Great Expectations as a 1000+ page book. Each time we sat down to read, Dad would have to recap the entire book up to that point and then read a chapter. Luckily, Swallows and Amazons fell at a time when he could read to us at least a couple times a week. The first librarian I ever knew worked in the children’s section of our public library in Dorchester, MA. She had a cupboard way up high where she’d hide new books that she thought I’d like so that I could be the first one to check them out. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:44:25 +0100 825342 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/new-topic-focused-news-aggregator-from-techmemes-founder-and-developer-gabe-rivera-hello-mediagazer/ It’s likely that many of you use Techmeme, a service that aggreates tech news from many sources on the Internet. Techmeme was originally compiled 100% algorithmically. However, since December, 2008 Megan McCarthy, has served as the ditor. Making the decisions about some of what goes on Techmeme. Today, Techmeme Founder and Developer, Gabe Rivera, McCarthy, and the other members of the Techmeme team launched another aggregated news site (aka vertical). This one brings together content about the media industry and is named, MediaGazer. Finally, often overlooked are the other topic-aggregation services that Techmeme provides: 1) Memeorandum: Political News 2) BallBuzz: Baseball News 2) WeSmirch: Celeb Gossip Btw, mobile versions are available for all of these sites. You can find the links on the lower right side of the page. The two mobile versions of MediaGazer 1) For SmartPhones and for more basic types of phones Finally, both a cool and useful way to “see” the headlines (in reverse chronological order) as they make there way into one of the services is to take a look at the “river” version also located, lower right side of the page. Here’s the MediaGazer River. If you’ve never visited Techmeme or any of these resources, they are well worth your time. They are also excellent tools to share with users who have interest in any of the topics covered. From paidContent: She [Megan McCarthy] said she doesn’t know how many sources are included in the media algorithm but the list builds out automatically as new sources are discovered. Why media? It fits their requirements: “lots of new coverage every day, lots of stories revolving around the same issues, and a variety of subtopics (video, media industry consolidation, blogs, future of journalism, newspapers, etc.) that people discuss.” As for staying standalone, “We’ve never raised any money—everything is bootstrapped. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:17:04 +0100 824602 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/dcRgaFGmUbU/ The Wall Street Journal has reprinted this section the Oxford work and it has some interesting history. Here’s part of it: In July 1945 Vannevar Bush, a pioneering engineer in the development of analog computing, published an article in which he introduced the Memex: a hypothetical instrument to control the ever-accumulating body of scientific literature. He envisioned an active desk that performed as a storage and retrieval system. A Memex user would consult a book by tapping a code on a keyboard, bringing up the text. The Memex had many features that are now familiar components of e-books: pages, page turners, annotation capability, internal and external linking, and the potential for storage, retrieval, and transmittal. However, Bush imagined that all this would be accomplished through the miracle of microfilm. (via Resource Shelf) Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:19:53 +0100 824587 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/literaturwelt/~3/qBPaelPTdMA/ Die Alligatorpapiere sind in den Print gegangen. Näheres zu dem Magazin für Kriminalliteratur, herausgegeben von Alfred Miersch und Thomas Przybilka, gibt es – bei den >>>Alligatorpapieren. Eine Ausgabe kostet sechsfuffzich, kann man abonnieren. Aus dem Inhalt: Die Befragung: Bruno Morchio (Von Gisela Lehmer-Kerkloh und Thomas Przybilka) Guillermo Martínez: Porträt und Interview (Von Doris Wieser) V Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro (Von Doris Wieser) Frank Göhre. Chronist der alten Bundesrepublik (Von Elfriede Müller) Feldmanns Schusswechsel. Regionalkrimis (Von Joachim Feldmann) Memento mori Nekrolog für das Jahr 2009/10 Stuart Kaminsky: Just a Midlist-Author (Von Jan Christian Schmidt) Der verwickelbare Schnüffler. Über Robert B. Parker (Von Thomas Klingenmaier) Abgesang auf eine sterbendes Krimijahr. (Von Jan Christian Schmidt) Krimipreise in Deutschland: Die PreisträgerInnen 2009/10 Krimi-Tipp No. 53. Thomas Przybilkas Informationen zur Sekundärliteratur Alligatorpapiere [Print] Magazin zur Kriminalliteratur Herausgegeben von Alfred Miersch & Thomas Przybilka. 76 Seiten, Format 20,3 x 14,5 cm 2010; EUR 6,50 (Source: Literaturwelt. Das Blog.) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:44:44 +0100 824472 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/01/hello-cleveland-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-opening-archive-library/ From the Article: There’s always been room at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for the exciting, most popular relics, like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” jacket and John Lennon’s Sgt. Pepper uniform. But most of the not-so-flashy mementos were tucked away in storage. Visitors will get a chance to see those hidden artifacts beginning later this year, when the museum opens its library and archives in a recently completed high-tech building it shares with Cuyahoga Community College’s creative arts programs. The museum has begun moving photos, recordings, albums and covers, oral histories, scrap books and other packed materials from its iconic glass pyramid overlooking Lake Erie to the new, low-key building two miles away. [Snip] The library will be the most comprehensive repository of rock history, with materials donated by hall of fame inductees and wannabes who see it as a way to preserve their stories, said Deborah Campana, librarian of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Beyond its research value to scholars, the library should appeal to rock fans, Campana said. Access the Complete Article Source: AP (via The Daily Caller) See Also: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives Web Page (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:37:05 +0100 822483 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/02/is-library-20-dead.html With the closure today of Ning Library 2.0 happening today, the decrease in blog posts and increase in micro blogging, it seems that library 2.0 as a meme is on the demise. In some ways this is true.This maybe seen in the closure of the Ning site, in which Bill Drew said of its closure:-The network has not seen much traffic the last few months and most people requesting to join are posting profiles full of link spam. The return is no longer worth the work. I am not transferring it to anyone else......... It grew far beyond my wildest hopes. At one point it got over 50 posts a day but is now getting less than 4 posts a month.It seems that library 2.0 had lost its cadre of zest for many users. Although Bill points out many users and post joined at first this dropped. Without a conversation (and too much spam), people would disappear.Other area's where there seems a decline in what has been termed web 2.0 is a decline or at least change in blogging, especially with some of the early library 2.0 bloggers. Jenny Levine's Shifted Librarian has changed her blog into a lifestream rather than a blog. This she describes as:-lets me run a stripped-down version of my own personal Friend Feed (but without the comments on individual items). It totally rocks.Michael Casey's influential Librarycrunch has become the Michael Casey blog, therefore its become an individual blog, rather than a more group/borg blog.Brian Mathews blog the Ubiquitous librarian said recently:-However I’ve noticed a steady overall decline in post quantity in 2009. Walt probably has an algorithm to measure that. I think the probable cause is that many of us were moving past the newbie stage of librarianship and were really starting to sink our teeth into the profession. Now we’re just too busy for constant online reflection. Additionally, Facebook and Twitter have evolved to replace the long form narrative (blog posts) in favor of quick bursts of ideas. In many ways, the Library 2. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822980 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/02/thursday-thirteen-13-tips-from-waiters.html This is from the Reader’s Digest, August 2008, and supposedly, real wait staff offered “tips.” I think #12 is important. Don’t take so much time that you hurt the waiter and the owner both! And #5 is good in any business. Treat people as you want to be treated. #4 is funny and suggests a touch of hostility, don't you think?1. Avoid eating out on holidays and Saturday nights. The sheer volume of customers guarantees that most kitchens will be pushed beyond their ability to produce a high-quality dish. 2. There are almost never any sick days in the restaurant business. A busboy with a kid to support isn't going to stay home and miss out on $100 because he's got strep throat. And these are the people handling your food.3. When customers' dissatisfaction devolves into personal attacks, adulterating food or drink is a convenient way for servers to exact covert vengeance. Waiters can and do spit in people's food. 4. Never say "I'm friends with the owner." Restaurant owners don't have friends. This marks you as a clueless poseur the moment you walk in the door. 5. Treat others as you want to be treated. (Yes, people need to be reminded of this.)6. Don't snap your fingers to get our attention. Remember, we have shears that cut through bone in the kitchen. 7. Don't order meals that aren't on the menu. You're forcing the chef to cook something he doesn't make on a regular basis. If he makes the same entrée 10,000 times a month, the odds are good that the dish will be a home run every time. 8. Splitting entrées is okay, but don't ask for water, lemon, and sugar so you can make your own lemonade. What's next, grapes so you can press your own wine?9. If you find a waiter you like, always ask to be seated in his or her section. Tell all your friends so they'll start asking for that server as well. You've just made that waiter look indispensable to the owner. The server will be grateful and take good care of you. 10. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821361 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/02/facebook-causing-end-of-usa-yearbook.html (Found via here). Seems students at the University of Virginia won't have a hardcover memento of their college years. The school founded by Thomas Jefferson has become the latest college to decide there's no place for the traditional yearbook in the age of Facebook. See the whole story here.Now, many might see this as the end of another American tradition. Or the end of print. Well, it maybe. But I find something far worst about this. My worry is all those horror movies that use the yearbooks to show who the baddies are are or who has been killed. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 820998 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/02/strategies_for.php "There are two basic rules of life: Change is inevitable, and everybody resists change." (Craine 2000) Changing professions or changes within a profession often runs a close second to losing a loved one. Deathlike feelings of change are now only a mouse click away. Librarians and Information professionals know that because of new technology, change manifests itself in the sheer volume of information which accumulates within organizations and among its professional ranks. Both struggle to manage the myriad of documents they produce and find in order to turn them into useful knowledge. Managing that change requires addressing the needs of the organization and its professionals as well as caring for the psychological impact change has on people within the organization. Understanding the newer fields of RIM and PKM plus the psychology of change is crucial for today's information professionals Resource Information Management or RIM addresses the need for information management at an organizational level. In 2007 the digital information universe was 281 exabytes (1exabyte = 1 billion gigabytes), and in 2011 it will be 10 times that figure. (Weller - Collison 2008) Coupled with compliance issues, legal, international and societal expectations managing information growth is critical. Proper information handling can make a difference between winning and losing court cases, being fined for non compliance and keeping abreast of international competition. RIM monitors events in the business environment and creates advantageous information policies within the organization. Organizations are now turning to a field known as Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) to address the information needs of its professionals. It is all about organizing and capturing the personal information and knowledge used by professionals who make organizational level decisions. Phil Schnyder sees the process as two steps. ... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:38:00 +0100 819524 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TravelinLibrarian/~3/lJPz8doBfqI/ The more Internet memes you know, the funnier this is. (Source: Travelin' Librarian) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:33:33 +0100 819420 http://www-cdn.educause.edu/sites/default/files/cni09-sierra.mp3 EDUCAUSE has completed posting podcast interview from the Fall 2009 CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) Fall Task Force Meeting on December 14-15, 2009, Washington, DC. The interviews are organized on a single page. You can find each on listed and linked here. : + Bernard Frischer, leading digital humanist, on 3D modelling in the humanities. + Tito Sierra, Associate Head for Digital Library Development at North Carolina State on new mobile library projects at NCSU. + Brett Bobley, CIO for the National Endowment for the Humanities, on using supercomputers in humanities research. + Paolo Mangiafico, Director of Digital Information Strategy for Duke University, on initiating a campus-wide digital information plan. + Marsha Semmel, Deputy Director for Museums and Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, summarizes opportunities and updates from the IMLS. + Memento, protocol-based time travel for the web, is explained by developers Herbert Van de Sompel, Robert Sanderson, and Michael Nelson. + The Open Annotation Project, also discussed by Van de Sompel, Sanderson, and Nelson, is making progress towards the establishment of an interoperable annotation environment for scholarly artifacts. EDUCAUSE/CNI (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:53:23 +0100 818748 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/booksquare/~3/EaJ7GshJueU/ A recent meme in publishing is that some readers are exhibiting a sense of “entitlement” about buying ebooks. I’d like to humbly offer myself as Exhibit A. It is true: I feel entitled to buy books. I insist upon it, actually*. Seriously, is it ever a good idea to disparage your customers? To treat them like they are annoyances? To suggest that they simply don’t understand how things work, when, really, why should they? Especially when, in at least one instance, the publishers were the ones who changed (or attempted to change) the rules? So, as a person who happily pays for books, this is what I feel entitled to: the book in the format I prefer at the time my awareness in said book is sufficient that I go to make the purchase at the price I deem reasonable based on my extensive experience as a book consumer. The truth is, I don’t care about ebook windowing (except that it’s, as far as I know, a relatively new idea, and to take readers to task for expecting simultaneous releases is a bit much, no?). I don’t care about ebook pricing games. I don’t even care how long it took the author to write the book, the amount of research that went into it, and that it was handwritten in blue ink on yellow paper. None of these things are indicators of whether or not I’m going to have an awesome reading experience. Basically, a publisher has one chance to get my money. If the marketing is done right, my awareness of a book is raised and my interest is piqued. Depending on the book — some I want as print, some (most) I want as digital — I will then attempt a purchase. If the book is not available, based on my previous behavior, I will either buy something else or find myself distracted by other bright and shiny things. The book that brought me to the store will never be purchased, barring a secondary marketing campaign coupled with renewed want. Here’s why. ... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:47:59 +0100 818842 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/leskovec Tuesday, February 16, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:30:00 +0100 818803 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/02/14/february-14th-stream.html Shared Happy Valentine’s Day!. Posted jeffjarvis: Good god, YouTube is only 5 years old (today). Feels like a generation. http://bit.ly/aoemae. Posted anildash: Every warning sign posted in a public space is a memento of someone’s past transgressions. In this spot, this rule was broken.. Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:40:11 +0100 819415 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Davidrothmannet/~3/Uj4dmQA71vs/ From The Independant: Medicines not working? There’s an app for that (Is anyone else completely done with the “There’s an app for that” meme?) Novartis, for example, signed a $24 million (£15.3 million) deal last month with US-based Proteus Biomedical to create “smart pills” that can transmit data from inside the body to monitor patients’ vital signs and check they have taken medicines as prescribed. Bayer is connecting its glucometer for diabetic children to Nintendo’s video-gaming consoles to promote consistent blood sugar testing. And Johnson & Johnson’s Lifescan unit has an iPhone application that lets users upload readings from their connected blood glucose monitors to their Apple phone. _______________ Feed-only Footer: [This space for rent] Want to reach about 3,500 RSS subscribers to this feed? Please get in touch. (Source: davidrothman.net) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:56:50 +0100 817945 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/6X8m61GA0pM/005124.php Yesterday I stopped by Twitter HQ to see Dick Costolo. Dick recently moved to Marin (my home turf) and took Twitter's COO job. I'd say that taking such a job means Dick's hair is constantly on fire, but if you know Dick, you know that's really not an issue. (He's level headed, he's a pro, and, well....let's just say he doesn't wear his hair long).   Among other things (FM has partnered with Twitter in the past, and will continue to do so), we discussed how Twitter might crack the code around explaining its user base, how those users engage with the service, and how the service is growing - especially given the recently hot (and to my mind not well understood) topic of *if* it's growing. Dick assured me it is - echoing a recent tweet from founder Evan Williams. Much has been written around the topic of Twitter's growth, but the shorthand is this: You can't rely on Comscore or web-based measurement services like Compete or Quantcast, because they do not measure the entire Twitter ecosystem, which is distributed in nature. For example, these services do not measure use of Twitter's API, which accounts for more than half of the service's traffic (through apps like TweetDeck, Twitteriffic, Exectweets or Stocktwits, for example). They also don't measure mobile usage, and some don't measure international traffic, which Costolo said in some countries is growing "straight up" - quite like it did in the US early last year. Regardless, these services do show a flattening of traffic to the US domain, which if not explained, will continue to cause consternation and questions around whether the Twitter ecosystem is indeed continuing to flourish. And when the service begins working directly with marketers, those questions will need to be addressed. Not to mention the issue of inactive accounts - folks who join but don't understand how to extract value from the service - witness Radiohead, as one example. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 817830 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/02/11/bookshelves-of-librarians Librarians are social creatures, right? Despite dowdy stereotypes, many of us are out there Web 2.0′ing it up - among other things, we like sharing our photos on flickr and our books on LibraryThing. So, I thought a fun meme would be to combine the two - show photos of our personal books and bookshelves. I spied one of Jessamyn’s, and uploaded photos of all my bookshelves.* I’m curious to see how other people organize books in their own space. My Bookshelves (click for descriptions) Non-fiction Reference Fiction And since timing is everything, this is doubly fun considering LibraryThing’s announcement this week about expanding LT’s photo capabilities. So upload photos of your own shelves (librarians and non-librarians) to flickr or LibraryThing or somewhere and share your personal organizational system.   *I didn’t photograph all the books in places other than shelves: coffee table, bedside table, bathroom bench, car, piled on the floor, etc. I tell myself those are all “temporary shelving locations.” Also: I can’t decide if “bookshelves” should be one word or two - so I use both. (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:36:50 +0100 817392 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/10/lagoze-lost-identity-the-assimilation-of-digital-libraries-into-the-web/ Carl Lagoze has made his doctoral dissertation, "Lost Identity: The Assimilation of Digital Libraries into the Web," available. Here's an excerpt: The idea of Digital Libraries emerged in the early 1990s from a vision of a "library of the future", without walls and open 24 hours a day. These digital libraries would leverage the substantial investments of federal funding in the Internet and advanced computing for the benefit of the entire population. The world’s knowledge would be a key press away for everyone no matter where their location. This vision led to substantial levels of funding from federal agencies, foundations, and other organizations for research into fundamental technical problems related to networked information and deployment of the results of this research in numerous digital library applications. The result was a number of exciting and influential technical innovations. But, the attempt to transplant the library to the online environment met with some unexpected obstacles. The funding agencies and many of the members of the digital library research community mainly focused on the technical issues related to online information. In general, they assumed that the new technology would be applied in a largely traditional (library) context, and largely ignored the profound social, economic, cultural, and political impact of turning "books (and other information resources) into bytes". The extent of this impact was demonstrated by the concurrent evolution of the World Wide Web, a networked information system not bound by legacy institutional conventions and practices or funding agency mandates and, therefore, able to organically evolve in response to the profoundly democratizing effect of putting information online. This has provided the context for the recent revolution in the web known as Web 2. ... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 817639