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Friday, July 29, 2005
walking paper: IM as answering machine or “the not so instant message”
walking paper: IM as answering machine or “the not so instant message”
In the morning there are generally a few messages from younger patrons saying something like,
its 10:30 what are you still doing at the library!?and thenohwhen they get the away message sent to then automatically. But there are a number of gems to be found among these other IMs*. Kids are starting to leave questions. Some ask for a reply, some just pose the question, perhaps assuming we’ll get back to them when we can, and a few have left email addresses. While we’re not getting 10 questions per night when the library is closed, or even five, it is still more than the number of emails we get from teens. This is, of course because IM is their preferred method of communication.
Web Tools — laura
Provide assistance to lawyers working for freedom
Boing Boing: Geeks: provide technical assistance to lawyers working for freedom
EFF is starting a mailing-list pool for geeks willing to render technical assistance to lawyers working on worthy cases
Although it’s for Geeks, this would be a good place for librarians to contribute.
Library Links — laura
Library OSS
Check out the Open-Source Software for Libraries list I’ve added.
Open-Source Software, Site — laura
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Sharing Bad
Been there, done that. The article has the distinct ring of Truth.
Library Links — laura
File-sharers buy more
Boing Boing: File-sharers buy more music than non-swappers
A British research outfit has determined that music file-swappers buy more music than their non-infringing peers
Copyright — laura
Open Access News (Formerly: FOS News)
Open Access News (Formerly: FOS News)
A publisher attests to the economics of OA publishing
Open Access — laura
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
LibrarySearch Firefox Extension
Wayne Graham’s Blog: LibrarySearch Firefox Extension
when you select text in the browser and right-click, a new context menu appears (Look up selection) that allows you to select which library/resource you would like to pass your selected text to search. This then opens a new tab with the launched search.
Web Tools — laura
RSS4Lib:: TOCs in the Catalog via RSS
RSS4Lib:: TOCs in the Catalog via RSS
Jim Robertson at the New Jersey Institute of Technology Library is pulling recent journal tables of contents into his catalog using RSS.
Do I have to mention how cool this is. I wonder how difficult it would be to do in PHP…
Web Tools — laura
Copyright
Copyright, a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal led by a renowned editorial team, seeks papers on all aspects of copyright in the Internet age. The journal features an extremely rapid review and publication time while maintaining rigorous standards on the quality of work
Open Access — laura
Extended Patriot Act
Curmudgeony Librarian News Network: Congress Votes to Extend Patriot Act
Congress reauthorized several elements of the Patriot Act, which were due to expire in 2006. Fourteen of the sixteen sections with “sunset clauses” were made permanent, and the other two were extended for ten years.
Patriot Act — laura
Monday, July 25, 2005
Bloglines
Forgive me if I’m the last to realize but this but I only just started using Bloglines (other reader went boom). It’s a free rss aggregator that also includes a blog. You can set your blog to be public or private and send items to it directly from your feeds list.
What occured to me is that a library could set up an account and share the login among the employees (or just the librarians, reference dept, etc.) and share the work of keeping up with various feeds. Each person could review a certain percent of items a day and send the ones they thought were important to the blog where the others could see them and they would be kept for future reference.
It might be a cheap and easy alternative to setting up an intranet or a free public blog.
Blogging — laura
Ohio blogs
Ohio University Libraries Blog Initiative
Good examples of library blogs.
Blogging — laura
Monday, July 18, 2005
The Librarian Effect
Just because it’s amusing.
Library Links — laura
Friday, July 15, 2005
Baby Boomer Librarian: Disaster Response, via Wikis
Baby Boomer Librarian: Disaster Response, via Wikis
This is a very positive story about the power of Wikis and Wikipedia. It focuses on the entry about the the London bombings. It shows the true power of this media. — Bill Drew
Web Tools — laura
Monday, July 11, 2005
Gibson on remix culture
Boing Boing: Gibson on remix culture
William Gibson comes out in favor of remix culture in a brilliant, pithy essay in this month’s Wired magazine
Copyright — laura
Friday, July 8, 2005
Long Time No Talk
Basically, I’ve been insanely busy with settling into a new job and a new town and I haven’t spent nearly as much time on the Net as I did before.
I love both the job and the town. I’m far closer to several friends and I’ve seen them all already. The rest of the employees have been exremely welcoming and happy to help me. I’ve got an evil plan in the works (tries to look innocent) with the full support of and much cheerleading by my co-workers and basically I’m too busy and having too much fun offline to sit and really write much.
Hopefully everything will settle down in a couple of months and I’ll get back here more often.
General — laura
Tuesday, July 5, 2005
FavIcon from Pics
FavIcon from Pics is a service that takes graphics and turns them into those little pictures that pop-up beside your url in the browser window. Just upload the favicon.ico file to the root folder of your website and it should be found automatically.
Website Design — laura
