Library Stuff:More Library OPAC Tricks details another idea I’d love detailed directions on. Particularly I’d love to see Innovative Interfaces hacks.

Hennepin County Library Catalog Results via RSS
Glenn Peterson at the Hennepin County Library sends word via e-mail that the HCL has added customized feeds to their online catalog. Hip Hip Hooray!

I would love to know how they got this to work.

In librarian.net:serving lower literacy users through effective web design, jessamyn mentions Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox as a great place to find useability information for creating webpages.
Though he is a well-respected advocate, occasionally Nielsen’s advice can border on the excessive. The best design is a balence between useability and the attractiveness associated with a professional and [...]

Boing Boing: BBC: DRM makes music customers mad

The BBC reports that the consumer revolt against DRM is underway, with customers for digital music getting caught out by unreasonable restrictions imposed on them by technology.

I’m back at work full time and I’ve finally managed to get caught up with work. I’ve reopened comments and hopefully I’ll get something interesting in here soon.

Boing Boing: Why govts make stupid copyrights

Donna Wentworth sez, James Boyle has just delivered the piece de resistance in his three-part series on copyright for the Financial Times: ‘Deconstructing Stupidity.’ The stupidity in question is the way that governments typically make intellectual property law and policy — that is, without evidence that it will produce [...]

Nvu is an open-source WYSIWYG that works on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. Dreamweaver and Frontpage are not only expensive, they can be too much, particularly if you use templates and all you need is to format a couple of links and a list.
Nvu is free and worth a trial.

Building up a marketing resistance?
Absolutely.

Library Journal – Meet the Gamers

Why pay attention to games? For starters, games are the “medium of choice” for many Millennials, with broad participation among the 30 and under population. Although part of a web of new media, technology, and social shifts, games are the quintessential site for examining these changes. Game cultures feature participation [...]

Dorothea has posted a list of places to hunt for library jobs online.

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The folks at LibLime want to help make the move to open source library systems easier and less fraught with peril. They sell and support their own version of Koha

This is exactly what we need. I would love to try it out. I may have to set up a test installation.

Peter Scott’s Library Blog
Peter Suber, editor of the highly popular Open Access News, has produced an excellent, extensive list of practical steps people can take to move Open Access forward. Whether you are a faculty member, a librarian, student, a society, funder or government body, Suber provides many suggestions for positive contributions you can make [...]

Boing Boing: India’s amazing statement on IP and international development

The primary rationale for Intellectual Property protection is, first and foremost, to promote societal development by encouraging technological innovation. The legal monopoly granted to IP owners is an exceptional departure from the general principle of competitive markets as the best guarantee for securing the interest of [...]

Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book: Marketing virtual chat reference at UNC-Chapel Hill
These are such a cute idea, I may try to get my library to do something similar.

Boing Boing: Canadian music industry’s fake stats shredded
Copyfighting Canadian lawyer Michael Geist has a hell of an article up on First Monday where he dissect the funny arithmetic the music industry has used to justify its calls for restrictive new Canadian copyright laws to “save Canadian aritsts.” This kind of incisive analysis cuts straight through [...]

PLA Blog – The Official Blog of the Public Library Association
This article is an excellent library digital resources 101 short piece, describing how patrons can access these resources through their local library, as well as an overview of a few select sources.

More on Blogging Guidelines

The guidelines posted seem more related to the library environment than the risks.
Blog guidelines and policies are going to become more important for libraries as more jump onto the bandwagon. I hope that these examples help in formulating an official policy for your library.

Standards for online content authors
The standards on this page include non-technical standards relevant to all web authors and technical standards relevant to some web authors.
I suggest you pick and choose from the long list, adapting it to your needs.

Blogging and RSS — The “What’s It?” and “How To” of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators
The internet has long been valued by teachers and librarians as a powerful research and communications tool, and in the last 10 years, it has brought about a sea change in the way students find, manage, [...]