Topic Maps
Steve Pepper has written an article on Topic Maps for the 3rd edition of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. "This article provides a comprehensive treatment of the core concepts, in addition to the background and current status of the standard, its relationship to traditional knowledge organization techniques, and examples of the kinds of applications for which it is being used." Read more...
Catalogablog, Yesterday, 3:25pm
New way to work?
I walk. I work. I stay more alert. I feel better at the end of the day. Research supports this.
Plenty of other people dig the idea it seems. The rising term is “Treadmill Desk.” Units go for about $4,000 but I hacked mine together for about $400. Why? I was [...] Read more...
Tame The Web, Yesterday, 1:33pm
Toilet Text
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Toilet text, originally uploaded by mstephens7. Read more...
Tame The Web, Oct 14, 3:10pm
‘Dewey’ chronicles life of library cat
Worthington Daily Globe - “Dewey, the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World,” by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter, has 336,000 copies in print and has quickly climbed to the top 10 on The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and other lists of best sellers. Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 14, 1:55pm
An Elephant Backs Up Google’s Library
Bits Blog - “Google often says that it likes to take the long-term view of things. But Google’s idea of long term does not appear to be long enough for some librarians, who tend to equate long term with forever, at least when it comes to preserving books.” Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 14, 1:53pm
When Your Kid Won’t “Friend” You
Motherlode Blog - “Hope Greenberg, an attorney and mother of four on Long Island created the group when she asked her 12-year-old daughter to “friend” her and the girl pushed back.” Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 14, 1:46pm
Open Office and BitTorrent
Open Office 3.0 is released today. It is also Open Access Day, nice fit there. But don't bother to try to download it now, the servers are overwelmed. You can grab it using BitTorrent. A nice P2P tool that is for more than stealing movies. BitTorrent is a P2P method where a central 'tracker' keeps track of who is downloading and sharing specific files. Read more...
Catalogablog, Oct 14, 10:26am
Princeton’s Gehry Library Banishes Stacks, Encourages Talking
Bloomberg - “The stacks you’d expect to find in a building housing collections as varied as astrophysics, biology and statistics have largely been banished to a surprisingly small high-density storage space in the basement.”(via) Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 14, 9:28am
German court kills google image search for germans?
Informationoverlord - “The Regional Court of Hamburg has apparently ruled that the use of thumbnail images in preview of search results by Google does infringe copyright.” Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 14, 9:25am
Open Access Day
Peter Scott - “October 14, 2008 is the world’s first Open Access Day. Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 14, 9:24am
The Abbreviated Fall Speaking Tour
With the pregnancy, I tried to keep my speaking schedule light for Fall. However, all three of the talks I’m giving fall within a two-week period, so it’s made me a bit harried in October. Last Tuesday, I gave a webinar for METRO NYC which was very fun, but it’s always weird to give a [...] Read more...
Information Wants To Be Free, Oct 13, 7:53pm
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
Renear, Allen H. and Dubin, David (2007) Three of the Four FRBR Group 1 Entity Types are Roles, not Types. In Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 44, Milwaukee, WI (US).We examine the conceptual model of the "bibliographic universe" presented in IFLA's Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and argue, applying ontology design recommendations proposed by N. Guarino and C. Welty, that three of the four Group 1 entity types might be more accurately conceptualized as roles. Read more...
Catalogablog, Oct 13, 2:58pm
Apple Store, Regent Street, London
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Apple Store, Regent Street, London, originally uploaded by mstephens7. Read more...
Tame The Web, Oct 13, 1:17pm
It's a miracle: look up books from home
(joking!) See linked tip of the week from NY Times - I guess they didn't know that most libraries have had their catalogs online (with real time availability info) for more than 10 years? Read more...
Christina's LIS Rant, Oct 13, 12:42am
How did I end up as a librarian meme
I was tagged by Jill - actually, this is probably the first meme I've been tagged for (so that I've noticed) in more than a year (or years?). Read more...
Christina's LIS Rant, Oct 13, 12:42am
Salinas libraries to open seven days a week
Remember when the library system was barely saved by the community? Now they are open 7 days a week. Huzzah! Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 12, 8:46pm
Celebrating the OED in Oxford
Jacket Copy - “The Oxford English Dictionary — OED to friends — is celebrating the 80th anniversary of its 1928 completion next week in Oxford, England.” Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 12, 7:47pm
Off to London!
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Sunday evening walk, originally uploaded by Michael Casey.
Michael Casey snapped this lovely photo today in London. I’m at O’Hare right now waiting for my flight. If you are attending Internet Librarian International 2008, please be [...] Read more...
Tame The Web, Oct 12, 6:53pm
Guitar Hero Contest in Library
Guitar Hero Contest in Library - “Children enjoy video games right now,” says Children Services Director Sandra Pierce. “We’re trying to use that as a vehicle to get them into the library, get them interested in what we’re doing. We also carry gaming magazines and that’s a form of reading. We just [...] Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 12, 6:33pm
garbage pail kids card - librarian
garbage pail kids card - librarian
Originally uploaded by udandi Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 12, 6:30pm
On the word “Cybrarian”
The Carrie Blog - “I frequently call my one male librarian friend a “guybrarian”, as a joke, because that is one of those annoying librarian things, like “liberry”. But “cybrarian” makes me want to hurl.” Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 12, 6:13pm
Study Warns of Hearing Loss From Music Players
NYT - “Noise from personal music players is a routine annoyance for travelers on buses, trains and planes. But it also threatens permanent hearing loss for as many as 10 million Europeans who use them.”
One of those “doi” studies. Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 12, 6:03pm
Bloglines v. Google Reader…Again
Walt Crawford takes a look and, in the end, still prefers Bloglines. Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 12, 5:56pm
Work Like a Patron Day
Brian Herzog writes:
http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/10/07/work-like-a-patron-day
Last week, a library volunteer and I were working on a project together. We each needed to work on a computer, but be close enough together to talk. The only arrangement like this in the library are the public workstations, so we worked out there.
In addition to getting the work done, I learned [...] Read more...
Tame The Web, Oct 12, 3:05pm
Off Topic: Timeline Tool
Does anyone know of a free/cheap tool to create a timeline for history? Must be able to handle BCE dates. Thanks Read more...
Catalogablog, Oct 12, 1:54pm
Like prices and hemlines, why do impact factors always go up?
Ever notice that certain time of year when every journal publisher announces how the impact factors of their journals is up? When the Journal Citation Report (JCR) comes out... the press releases follow. The impact factor is a measure of how important the journal is - if it is cited. It's a rolling measure so journals can't rest on their laurels (so much), but there is time for the articles to actually be cited after they're published. Read more...
Christina's LIS Rant, Oct 12, 12:27pm
College libraries win back search primacy
Information World Review - “A three-year study into how users navigate scholarly content reported that nearly 60% of respondents recognised library technology played a role in their navigation 95% of the time.” Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 12, 9:27am
Community detection in co-authorship networks
Wow - this paper uses a lot of the same techniques (and the same algorithm) I use in my IEEE eScience conference paper (details and pre-print to follow, probably not 'til the beginning of November though). Read more...
Christina's LIS Rant, Oct 12, 12:25am
Librray Camp of the West
Some pictures from Josh Neff and Steve Lawson
Looks like a good time was had by all. Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 11, 10:04pm
Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions
The code listed below has been recently approved for use in MARC 21 records. The code will be added to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.The code should not be used in exchange records until after December 10, 2008. This 60-day waiting period is required to provide MARC 21 Read more...
Catalogablog, Oct 10, 8:16pm
Social hardware
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Social hardware, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.
I’ve had a few emails about the “social hardware.”
Here’s Karen’s post:
http://freerangelibrarian.com/2008/05/03/social-hardware/
This gem will be going a lot of places in the next few months! Read more...
Tame The Web, Oct 10, 10:15am
No Bicycles
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No bicycles, originally uploaded by chawnerb. Read more...
Tame The Web, Oct 10, 6:01am
SLA2008: KM at the Core, Facilitating Knowledge Sharing
This session was Monday at 9am and featured Dave Snowden - who is entertaining to listen to, even if he trashes my whole paradigm of research (harumph, if he can't tell anecdotal "evidence" from rigorous systematic qualitative research - that's because he doesn't know better, not because there isn't a difference!) Read more...
Christina's LIS Rant, Oct 10, 12:41am
SLA2008: cyber infrastructure - building bridges
This was also on Monday at 1:30. Read more...
Christina's LIS Rant, Oct 10, 12:41am
SLA2008: Physics roundtable
I think this should be it. Read more...
Christina's LIS Rant, Oct 10, 12:41am
SLA2008: Astro Roundtable
Kerry Kroffe from IOP presented on the transition of AAS journals to IOP. He's headquartered in DC. Read more...
Christina's LIS Rant, Oct 10, 12:41am
SLA2008: Social Tools and the Enterprise
In this session Liz Lawley flew through a bunch of cool tools - which I've mostly seen before, but it's worth a reminder. Read more...
Christina's LIS Rant, Oct 10, 12:41am
Libraries on my Cereal!
Libraries on my Cereal!
Originally uploaded by Kables Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 9, 11:52pm
I’m a long time user of bloglines, but
Steve Matthews - “I’m a long time user of bloglines, but my patience is almost done.”
Yup. Bloglines is basically kaput. I looked at my blog in there and it hadn’t been updated in months (and I’m the 150th top blog).
Steve, come over to the dark side… Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 9, 10:19pm
Middle school committee keeps book in library
Homeroom - “A committee of parents and staff at Ridgeview Middle School in the Round Rock school district has recommended that a book for teenagers be kept on the school’s library shelves after a parent complained that it contains vulgar material.” Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 9, 10:08pm
Library as [a fun] place
Ballad in Plain E - “Mark at the AALL Spectrum Blog wonders whether law libraries are holding fun events in the library, and whether anyone has studied (and presumably reported on) that.”
Of course. I have DDR and WOW parties at my clients libraries all the time. Read more...
Library Stuff, Oct 9, 10:07pm
Is the landscape of cheating changing?
For your review: the youtube video causing a sensational discussion about cheating students.
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And a pretty interesting piece by US News & World Report:
“…More tech-savvy professors: Barbara Christe, program director of biomedical engineering technology at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, says she usually catches three or four students a year with her Web “honey pots.” She [...] Read more...
Tame The Web, Oct 9, 6:33pm
But What about the Candlestick? (Updated)
I am LOVING this:
http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
We are six librarians working in academic, public, and school libraries across the United States. In addition to essays by its founders, In the Library with the Lead Pipe will feature articles by guests representing special libraries and archives, as well as educators, administrators, library support staff, and community members.
In the Library [...] Read more...
Tame The Web, Oct 9, 6:23pm
Game-In Open Air
Game-In Open Air, originally uploaded by moqub.
The U Game U learn logo projected on the outside of the library in Delft! Read more...
Tame The Web, Oct 9, 5:43pm
Library Blog: Embedded Training & Video
http://library.sbcc.edu/2008/09/academic_search_premier.html
I caught note of this via Twitter. Thanks Kenley!
Take a look at this post at the Luria Library’s blog. They’ve turned on video comments as well as sharing an embedded slide show that details basic searching of Ebscohost.
This so ties into my takeaways from spending a day at IDEA2008. So much of what we do [...] Read more...
Tame The Web, Oct 9, 5:18pm
IDEA2008: David Armano on Micro Interaction
Micro-Interactions in a 2.0 World (v2)
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web 2.0)
I wanted to stand up and cheer. My conference notes are here:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23IDEA2008+mstephens7 Read more...
Tame The Web, Oct 9, 5:02pm