Are Law Librarians Who Accept Vendor Swag Committing Ethically Questionable Acts?
Law Librarian Blog – “When Sarah Glassmeyer announced she was going to auction the proceeds of her unsolicited WestlawNext iPod Nano, I thought and wrote “good for Sarah.” At the same time, I thought it was fine by me if anyone accepted similar vendor swag, noting with tongue firmly planted in cheek, that I was [...] Read more...
Library Stuff, Yesterday, 8:18pm
From Wisdom to Wi-Fi
Book review from the WSJ – “There are many unsung heroes of ordinary life—nurses, trash collectors, accountants—whose job it is to take care of things that the rest of us take for granted. So too the librarian, that iconic figure who long presided over a sanctuary of books and guided readers, young and old, to [...] Read more...
Library Stuff, Yesterday, 8:13pm
On Speaking in Montreal
Last Friday’s “Web 2.You” event at McGill University was crammed full of interesting speakers and attendees. The sessions were useful and thought provoking, the crowd was smart and engaged, the egg salad at lunch was even magnifique’. On top of that, they even hosted a reception after, where we got to get [...] Read more...
Libraryman, Yesterday, 8:00pm
Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight
NYT – “Could book publishers suddenly be in the position of telling Google what to do?” Read more...
Library Stuff, Yesterday, 8:00pm
British Library to offer free ebook downloads
Times Online – “MORE than 65,000 19th-century works of fiction from the British Library’s collection are to be made available for free downloads by the public from this spring. Owners of the Amazon Kindle, an ebook reader device, will be able to view well known works by writers such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and [...] Read more...
Library Stuff, Yesterday, 1:36pm
In Tough Times, a Library Branch Reopens
NYT – “In the midst of a budget cut that is forcing it to cut back hours at two-thirds of its locations, the New York Public Library has found something to celebrate: the reopening of the St. Agnes branch on Amsterdam Avenue and 81st Street. The long-languishing three-story stone building with the arched windows has [...] Read more...
Library Stuff, Yesterday, 1:34pm
Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ to be republished in Germany
Telegraph – “Under the post-1945 German constitution, the dissemination of Nazi philosophy has been a crime punishable by fines and imprisonment. But the copyright, held by the state of Bavaria where the Nazi movement began life in the 1920s, expires in 2015, 70 years after the death of its author in his Berlin bunker.” Read more...
Library Stuff, Yesterday, 1:32pm
IFLA Classification News
The latest Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter, for December 2009, is now available. Read more...
Catalogablog, Yesterday, 12:41pm
Should authors attest that they did a minimal lit search?
I keep coming back to this piece: Read more...
Christina's LIS Rant, Yesterday, 12:41pm
NYT Subject Headings
The NYT has released another 5,000 subject headings. The nice thing is they are part of the semantic web.Today we’re pleased to announce the addition of approximately 5,000 new subject headings to data.nytimes.com. These subjects include organizations, publicly traded companies and geographic identifiers, ranging from Apple Inc to Kansas to Williams College. Like the 5,000 person-name subject headings released last October, we have mapped our latest crop of subject headings to DBpedia, Read more...
Catalogablog, Yesterday, 12:41pm
LSCH Change
It seems all the headings starting with Cellular telephone are changing to Cell phone. Read more...
Catalogablog, Yesterday, 12:41pm
Congresses
I'll be at both the ER&L and TxLA conferences this year. I have a perverse love of using Congresses when conferences is the common usage. Now that cookery is on the way out we have only a few of these archaic terms left. Read more...
Catalogablog, Yesterday, 12:41pm
Bibliographic Ontology Specification
This morning DCMI tweeted about the Bibliographic Ontology Specification. New to me.The Bibliographic Ontology describe bibliographic things on the semantic Web in RDF. This ontology can be used as a citation ontology, as a document classification ontology, or simply as a way to describe any kind of document in RDF. It has been inspired by many existing document description metadata formats, and can be used as a common ground for converting other bibliographic data sources. Read more...
Catalogablog, Yesterday, 12:26pm
RDF, COinS and Microformats
At the closing session of Electronic Resources and Libraries 2010 I had the chance to ask Ross Singer and John Blyberg about the place of microformats and COinS in information organization. Ross had just finished speaking about the importance of linked data. As I recall John said that microformats, COinS and other semantic markup is important even if it lacks links. Providing a machine readable understanding of a text string is good, it can lead to links. Ross said, without links markup is useful today but not a way to move forward. It is a tool for today but not the future. RDFa is the way forward.The talk was the end of an excellent conference. Well worth attending. Read more...
Catalogablog, Yesterday, 12:26pm
Parents get power to turn off web games
China Daily – “Parents in China can pull the plug on their kids’ online gaming by asking game operators to end services for minors, according to a program launched over the weekend by the culture ministry and six major online gaming companies.” Read more...
Library Stuff, Feb 7, 9:22pm
LIS768 Student Project at Canadian SL site
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LIS768 Student Project at Canadian SL site, originally uploaded by mstephens7.
So happy to see one of last semester’s LIS768 Projects highlighted at the Canadian Association for School Libraries.
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Tame The Web, Feb 7, 4:49pm
Site streamlines book hunting on the go in Boulder, Louisville, Broomfield
Daily Camera – “Book lovers on the go now have an easier way to find out if titles are available at Boulder- and Broomfield-area libraries, which have launched a redesigned Web site especially for mobile phones. Card catalogs are the way of the past, according to Matthew Hamilton, the manager for Boulder’s library innovation and [...] Read more...
Library Stuff, Feb 7, 2:28pm
Cambodia blasts Google map of disputed Thai border
Reuters – “Cambodia has hit out at Google over what it called a “radically misleading” map of the disputed Thai-Cambodia border, accusing the world’s biggest search engine of being “professionally irresponsible”
More here, from Bloomberg Read more...
Library Stuff, Feb 7, 2:02pm
Tenn State librarian retiring
AP – “Jeanne Sugg’s long career spent safeguarding the history, treasures and sheer oddities of Tennessee has come to a close.” Read more...
Library Stuff, Feb 7, 9:38am