LibraryCareers.org is a new ALA site for people interested in becoming librarians.

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is OA and looks really interesting but having the articles in PDF only is going to cut into their readership. Who has time (or patience) to wait for a download of an article you’re not sure you really want?

Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Make a New Plan, Stan: More Ways to lose Your Techie Folks You must read all of these. Many of them are going to be familiar to everyone, techie or not. And if I might add my own … Support your techies’ ideas for bringing the library forward, but [...]

blyberg.net » Library 2.0 websites: Where to begin? Let me suggest five directives that may help get your creative minds turning. I want to talk about these not only because they represent common sense, good design, and patron convenience, but also because by using these directives as a kernel in your new project, you are [...]

Open Access News Frank McCown and three co-authors, Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus, IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2006. Abstract: The major search engines are competing to index as much of the Web as possible. Having indexed much of the surface Web, search engines are now using a variety of approaches to index the [...]

Newfound Press: University of Tennessee Libraries The University of Tennessee Libraries is developing a framework to make scholarly and specialized works available worldwide. Newfound Press, the University Libraries digital imprint, advances the community of learning by experimenting with effective and open systems of scholarly communication. Drawing on the resources that the university has invested in [...]

Open Access News Digesting biomedical blogs Postgenomic tracks the biomedical papers being discussed by bloggers, identifies the most-discussed papers and journals, and shows what kinds of researchers are discussing what kinds of papers. What I find interesting is that there is an impact tracker with 3 OA journals in the top 20.

The citation rankings from Science Citation Index are practically a requirement for university tenure these days. But the datqabase is so expensive that most libraries have to search on a for-fee basis. I did one recently that was $30 for 6 citations to one article. Google Scholar service matches Thomson ISI citation index The free [...]

metaProjects » Blog Archive » Don’t need no stinkin’ proposal My profession in general (hereinafter MPIG) hasn’t quite figured out what to do with its young professionals. It wants to harness our creativity, expertise, and energy, but isn’t quite ready to entrust us with actual decisions. Thus, lower-middle managers in MPIG who would like to [...]

Boing Boing: Free/open source blogosphere ibiblio.org has taken open-source blogging software (WordPress) and altered it for massive blog management so you can offer them to all your students. Oh, if only we had php and mysql.