Word for Nerds
I got back from ALA Midwinter on Tuesday night, and after taking a day to ponder all the things I heard and discussed over the long weekend, I wanted to quickly write up a few observations and thoughts. I’m trying to take an overall approach, rather than detailing each session I attended, as I have [...]
I recently read a quote in OCLC’s report, “Libraries at Webscale”: Leslie Crutchfield says that “The expectation that collaboration can occur without a supporting infrastructure is one of the most frequent reasons that collective efforts fail.” That quote really stuck with me because it so aptly describes the project I’ve been working on for the [...]
Like many of my library brethren, I’m getting ready to head to Dallas next week for ALA Midwinter 2012. I’m getting kind of excited, because I like conferences, and I’ve never been to Dallas, and I’m staying in a nice hotel. I like traveling to new cities for any reason, and no one who knows [...]
Despite the fact that I’ve been a bit slow-moving into 2012, it is, in fact, here. It’s another new year, and for me, that always means time for reflection and planning.
I’m kind of sad to say that in 2011, I yet again didn’t write as much as I wanted to write. Not even [...]
Another year, another lamentation that I didn’t write as much as I wanted. I did, however, read a lot last year. Here’s the list of books I read in 2011. Asterisks indicate my favorite book in each month, and (RR) indicates that it was a re-read.
January
“In the Land of Invisible Women: [...]
On Wednesday, I had the privilege of attending a NISO working meeting on creating a standard for Open Ebook Annotations. The meeting was held the day before the Books in Browsers conference, and was the third such working meeting, after meetings held in New York and Frankfurt. The purpose was to brainstorm around what the [...]
In the “I’m a dork” files, I just installed a fun little WordPress plug in created by Steve Lawson, called Hello, Ranganathan. If you’re a WordPress user, I’ll leave you to go find out more.
Not sure who this Ranganathan fellow is? His Five Laws of Library Science are considered guide points [...]
Another Banned Books Week is coming to a close, and once again, my RSS feed has been filled with arguments for and against this most well-known library tradition. I’ve always been a supporter of Banned Books Week, even organizing events around it for the Simmons College community when I was chair of the Simmons Progressive [...]
The inability to check out books from my library using my Kindle irked me from the first moment I started using the Kindle. When Amazon and Overdrive announced that they were finally partnering to allow library lending on the Kindle, I was pretty excited. Sure, as a librarian I know it’s far from a perfect [...]
I’m deep in the midst of a project that involves dealing with a lot of MARC records, and I know I’ve said it many times before, but seriously? How is it possible that this “standard” involves so many un-standard elements? Sure, a lot of the core data really is in the same place in every [...]
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