March 2009
74 posts
#cil09 I think I’m doin it wrong. NTS: attend more confeerences so I can get in shape for these blowout events.
If I am in an overflow room at #cil09 listening to a presentation where the speakers are in another room, do I still clap at the end?
Greg Notess on searching the social web #CIL2009
Waiting for Anna Creech & Cindi Trainor to start their presentations @ #cil09.
NDU’s MERLN created federated search portal of fed govt sites with policy statements. Stable collection of lies & deceptions . #cil2009
If your library offers one-on-one research consultations for students, can you share any survey or assessment instrument you have them do?
Listening to: Adolescents - No Way http://tinyurl.com/c3f43h
Listening to: Less Than Jake - Automatic http://tinyurl.com/ccfds6
Anyone gotten a beta invite for Prezi.com, a neat looking service for creating nonlinear presentations? http://prezi.com/
Listening to: Youth Brigade - Sink With Kalifornija (all time fave song by Youth Brigade) http://tinyurl.com/c5okfa
Listening to: Cheap Trick-Surrender (childhood soundtrack & from Over the Edge, another fave movie) http://tinyurl.com/yomqub
Listening to: Foghat-Slow Ride (from soundtrack of my childhood and Dazed & Confused, a fave movie) http://tinyurl.com/2n8lyo
Unconferences: Ur Doin It Wrong! →
Reading the excellent page by Walt Crawford on unconferences and library camps on the PALINET Leadership Network site, it occurred to me that perhaps the attempts to define what is and isn’t an…
Kynetx →
Developing the tools that will allow for structured browsing (or perhaps contextual browsing). Users will receive “information cards” from various organizations/companies/services that will trigger…
Watching registrations start piling up for #libcampnyc09 http://bit.ly/4doky
For my #cil2009 presentation on unconferences in libraries, am working on a slidedeck of library camp pix from past 3 yrs.
Listening to: Mogwai - You Don’t Know Jesus http://tinyurl.com/37z5ug
Listening to: Rodan - The Everyday World Of Bodies http://tinyurl.com/c8rrn5
Refreshing the Shovers & Makers blog to see who’s won next! (Yes, I know there’s a feed I could monitor.) http://bit.ly/2sYCQs
Listening to: Minor Threat - Seeing Red http://tinyurl.com/ddw9jg
Did you shove or make in the past year? Then reward yourself and share what you did. http://bit.ly/kZCiU
Listening to: Propagandhi - This Is Your Life http://tinyurl.com/dhbf77
Udell, Jon. "A conversation with Andrew Turner... →
In this interview, Udell talks to Andrew Turner about GeoCommons, RSS and GIS data, and the opening up of mapmaking on the web to those who have not traditionally had the skills or the tools…
Time for a whoopie pie hashtag, n’est-ce pas? #whoopiepie
Mmm…whoopie pies (featured in NY Times article yesterday) Assume @lbraun2000 & @brownfamilycats saw this http://bit.ly/13jyxI
Just finished shift on coop chat reference (via QuestionPoint). Pleasantly busy: 4 questions in 1 hour, including 2 from CUNY students.
It’s all about whoopie pies today on Twitter. http://bit.ly/Bu3n
Got this email alert from NYC’s MTA @ 1 pm: 1,2,3 & 5 trains are rerouted in both directions. Due to Water Condition at Canal Street. Irony?
Is anyone doing something with OAuth in their libraries?
#followfriday @judell @jpeg2000
Anyone use the hashtag #followfriday as a way to endorse folks you like on Twitter?
Has anyone ever ripped all their CDs in lossless format? I’ve been ripping at 320kbps but know that some day I’ll wish I had duped the CDs.
Twitter as a Q&A Service →
Thanks to a Twitter message from Dana Longley (aka disobedientlib on Twitter) I learned today about an interesting attempt to turn a subset of Twitter messages into a Q&A service. AskOnTwitter…
Digital Dilemmas event on April 16 →
My friend Jason Kucsma at METRO has helped put together what looks to be a great one-day event on digital libraries, which is described this way: Digital Dilemmas is a day-long symposium…
Roving reference at Darien Library →
I’m excited to be attending a free, one-day event on the future of libraries at the Darien Library in a few weeks (details and sign up for the event are on this wiki). In addition to the …
Is Blogger or Feedburner failing 2 publish feeds for anyone else today? My Digital Reference blog has 3 new posts 2day but u’d never know it
Does anyone know whether there is a limit to the number of songs an iTunes library can actually handle?
Gonna see if my real question will get picked up by AskOnTwitter. Next tweet will be a real message that will test to see if it really works
Listening to: Louis Armstrong - Medley Of Hits http://tinyurl.com/dh2tky
Mediema, John. "OpenBook WordPress Plugin."... →
WordPress plug in that will display cover art, title, author, and publisher info. Links out to OpenLibrary, WorldCat, bookstores, and more. Add COinS also, allowing Zotero to recognize item as book…
Mediema, John. "OpenBook WordPress Plugin: Open... →
Details on how the OpenBook plugin for WordPress was created and designed, how it works, and what it looks like.
Oh, uhm, yeah, be my friend in Ning? OK. Haven’t been there in ages, though. http://library20.ning.com/
Waiting for arrival of our library school intern, who wants to interview me as part of her internship requirements. *straightens tie,*
Woke up a@5 am instead of usual 6 am today. Enjoyed bkfast, cup of joe, & catching up on The New Yorker issues. Early AM solitude was great
Tentatively venturing out from FriendFeed and back to Twitter now that I’ve got TweetDeck.
Shieh, David. "New MLA Guidebook Offers Web Site,... →
Details some changes in the new, 7th edition of MLA Style Manual. Comments section in post offers Rosemary Feals explaining library use of companion web site.
Redden, Elizabeth. "Style: MLA, Updated." Inside... →
More coverage of the new MLA Style Manual. Comments to post include advice from MLA Exec. Dir. Rosemary Feals about library use of the companion website.
Listening to: Teenage Fanclub - Catholic Education http://tinyurl.com/csj8pm
free SWOT analysis template and method, free swot... →
Template and advice for creating SWOT analyses.
Listening to: Verbal Assault - Learn http://tinyurl.com/cfwqn6
