The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.
4GuysFromRolla.com – The XHTML Way argues in favor of using the XHTML standard for coding websites. Many designers are debating between XHTML and HTML 4 which doesn’t have the same restrictions that XHTML does. The basic argument is that you can do more things with HTML 4 that you would have to resort to javascript [...]
But this issue goes deeper. As the flaws, the breakdowns, the mistallied votes show us, eVoting software is a) not ready for prime time, and b) has been deployed widely without a shred of evidence of working QA and code review. Counting votes is a very simple thing. Creating safeguards, paper trails, and offsite monitoring [...]
From the experience, here are Ten Guidelines for Developing Your Internal Blog for any type of library that wishes to create an internal communication tool. Easy and practical guidelines that you may not think of when you start. Why would you want an internal blog? A lot of valuable information gets generated in a day [...]
tonneten library :: syndication: Feasibility study: Alternatives for libraries lists several good uses for syndication feeds for both librarians and for library users. I’m trying not to link to everything Drew publishes but it’s hard because they’re all so interesting.
Attorney General John Ashcroft resigned today, claiming credit for an extraordinary era of justice in his resignation letter. Boing Boing Where?!
Off to a Good Start: Strategies for Your First Year in a New Job
Following up an this earlier BoingBoing post: The Associated Press and Variety (sub required) report more details on an announcement expected from the MPAA tomorrow regarding lawsuits against hundreds of movie fileswappers. The anticipated move would be significant because movie studios — unlike the recording industry — have not yet taken large-scale legal action against [...]
The Oct 2004 LIScareer Articles have been posted. Information for new and not so new liberarians.
Marketing Toolkit – Additional Resources contains information specifically to help libraries present themselves to the public.
BioMed Central provides MARC records to facilitate the cataloging of their large collection of Open Access journals. A delimited spreadsheet containing titles, URLs, ISSNs, journal abbreviation and date of initial publication is also available. Peter Scott’s Library Blog