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 then oh when they get the away message sent to then automatically. But there are a number of [...]

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.

Check out the Open-Source Software for Libraries list I’ve added.

Cutting Through – helping you to cut through the information and technology clutter » Five Reasons People Don’t Tell What They Know
Been there, done that. The article has the distinct ring of Truth.

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

Open Access News (Formerly: FOS News)
A publisher attests to the economics of OA publishing

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.

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…

Peter Scott’s Library Blog
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

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.

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 [...]

Ohio University Libraries Blog Initiative
Good examples of library blogs.

★ The Joy of Tech! ★
Just because it’s amusing.

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

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

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 [...]

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