Boing Boing: NYT changes, back-dates article after Wikipedia fact-checkers find error

Sometime yesterday, the entire last section of the NYT article, which (according to the NYT website) was NYT’s most emailed article for the last two days, was changed …
No letter or correction has been issued, however, calling attention to this error.
It [...]

LISNews.org | LibLime Koha is Chosen by the Guggenheim Museum
Tina N. Burger dropped by to spread The Word on The Guggenheim Museum going with Koha. The Guggenheim chose LibLime for its open-source expertise, and is confident that the partnership will better enable the museum to achieve its future library automation goals: “Working with LibLime will [...]

I can’t help myself. It’s the 5 sites not related to libraries meme.

I think someone got the Daily Puppy but I don’t remember anyone doing Cute Overload. Because mornings suck less when they start with a smile.
There has been a lot said about the “mommy-bloggers” but I consider them contemporary diarists whose autobiographies I don’t [...]

Boing Boing: U of Nebraska to RIAA: here’s a bill for the time you’re wasting
The University of Nebraska is so pissed off with the RIAA’s outrageous requests to help rat out students who file-share that it has sent the RIAA a bill for the time the University has wasted dealing with the RIAA’s demands. Go [...]

the goblin in the library » Twitter Me This
adaptive path » blog » blog archive » Twitter: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Basically what I had thought, not for me. But who knows when the right situation might pop-up?

LibrarianInBlack: Getting staff to understand libraries and Second Life

Kathryn Greenhill has created a fabulous presentation, available on Slideshare, about the role of libraries and librarians in the Second Life online game environment. Greenhill does a great job of explaining what Second Life is and how libraries can choose to fit in to this overall [...]

Gaming in the Library
Much is happening in the world of gaming right now, and it’s not just a lot of teenage boys sitting in the basement staring at a screen for hours on end. No, gaming has tremendous potential for libraries to reach out to new users, offer new services, and help complement efforts in [...]

Internet radio may be driven out of business within weeks by a Copyright Royalty Board decision that gives record companies a royalty rate that exceeds 100% of most webcasters’ total revenues…

Petition for OA to publicly-funded research in the US
The organizations sponsoring the petition are the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA), American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), American Library Association (ALA), Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), FreeCulture, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), Public Knowledge (PK), and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

It’s about trust, reliability, accuracy …
Stacy on Web4Lib found one of her vendors giving her bad usage stats. When she called them on it, she was told it was a “known problem” and they would “hide” the bad data from her. It’s not even the only vendor that’s given her bad stats this year!
As an [...]

hennepin county library’s bookspace

The ever resourceful Librarian in Black breaks a huge story about hennepin county library’s bookspace which is an online community based around books. I’m going to copy her list of things readers can do at bookspace:
* create their own account for Book Space
* sign [...]

saving time with social web tools
I hope this mini case study of a time strapped library helps expose the “I don’t have time for social software” excuse to be just that: an excuse for not wanting to expand and learn.
Indeed. Bookmarking for the next argument over new technology versus the way we’ve always done it.

Seven Strategies for Marketing in a Web 2.0 World
So what should a marketer do in an era where customers freely discuss your products and services? People post compliments and complaints that can be discovered by thousands of Internet users. Peers listen to and trust these reviews. If you’re in charge of marketing for your library, [...]

LibrarianInBlack: NetLibrary tutorial on YouTube
…the North Metro Technical College Library in Acworth, Georgia. They have 9 videos total so far, all nice tutorials on how to find information in various resources.

If you build it, will they come? (part 2) » “Self-plagiarism is style”
Even with the least used tweaks, there’s more than enough usage to justify the development time, so I’m extremely happy with the graphs.
Usability tweaks are worth implementing.

Is Second Life a brave new world? – 05 Mar 2007 – IT Week

You may recall the early days of the web: geeks ruled and it was full of nonsense. Anyone trying to engage with that world found it strange and intimidating. It contained a lot of good stuff, but it wasn’t easy to [...]

ebyblog » Blog Archive » OpenID, Single Signon and Academia
OpenID via your local library, be it your university or public. That is community service!

David Lee King » Blog Archive » Twtter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter

Shocking, I know.

Gonzales, Mueller admit FBI broke law – Yahoo! News And they promise not to do it again
Boing Boing: DoJ: FBI misused Patriot act in domestic spying activities
ALA | Statement from ALA President Leslie Burger on Justice Dept. Investigation into FBI, NSLs These findings confirm many of ALA’s most repeatedly stated concerns about [...]

T. Scott: Librarians Unbound
…Librarians need to free themselves from the tyranny of the library. This is hard, I know. All of us in the field, to one degree or another, love libraries and feel emotionally bound to them. But they are only a means. Libraries don’t do anything — librarians do.
heehee

ALA TechSource | Dear Library of Congress…
It is both ironic and poignant that librarians are still worrying about “bibliographic control,” after ceding so much of the same to the companies that now rent them journal access per annum at usurious rates, digitize their book collections into DRM obscurity, or sell them ponderous, antiquated “management” systems [...]

Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Ten Tech Trends for Librarians 2007
So here’s this year’s list, with a new name: “Trends” instead of “Things.” Sure it puts a finer point on it but it also recognizes the changes in my thinking about the essential duties of librarians:
Learn to Learn
Adapt to Change
Scan the Horizon
As we carry [...]