Stanford launches iTunes service Stanford has launched an iTunes-based service for downloading news, lectures, and related material. Now that’s shifted!

Thanks to the dedicated (obsessed?) bloggers at IL there is a plethera of information out for those of use stuck at home. Below is a list of some I expect to need in the near future. Expert Panel—Tips for Keeping Up (Limit your information intake and make it more efficient) ::schwagbag::: Internet Librarian :: Day [...]

internet librarian 05: 30 search tips in 40 minutes. List of all 30. I’m so jealous of those who got to go. Maybe next year.

RSS4Lib:: Making a Feed Where None Exists Give it a web page and it will do its best to parse the page into content and fluff and create an RSS feed of the content. In a few trials, it did pretty well, though it erred on the side of omitting good content rather than providing [...]

As busy as we all are and as many great sources of library information as there are it can get overwhelming. If you keep up with the Carnival of the InfoSciences and This Week in LibraryBlogland (now with feeds!) , you’ll get a good overview.

I have seen the enemy, and she is me. That’s just how librarians are – beneath our buns, or our mohawks, or our seven veils, we are all fierce-hearted fighters for intellectual freedom. And we always have been. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it expressed this well.

Why We Need Institutional Repositories This new generation of institutional repositories does not compete with existing databases, it complements and extends them. At the same time, it reaffirms the position of an institution (in the case of a university) as a scholarly center and community hub.

blogwithoutalibrary.net » Blog Archive » google reader The review Amanda links to is excellent but leaves out my personal pet peeve. There’s no “Mark all Read” feature. I imported about 200 feeds and every item is showing new. Also, there’s no way to hide “read” items. So I wind up paging through them to get [...]

Introducing Tagyu :: Adam Kalsey The basic premise of Tagyu is to let other people help you tag your content. Tagyu comapres what you’re writing to what other people around the web are writing. It looks at how they’ve tagged their content and uses that informtion to give you some ideas about how to tag [...]

Your First Year on the Tenure Track: Temperamental Advice for Junior Faculty in Toxic Work Environments …though my experiences are extraordinary, I believe they could also be shared by others grimly attempting to survive the circumstances of their own dysfunctional workplaces. What you will find in this article is slightly hyperbolic advice wrought from harsh [...]