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.
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 [...]
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.