Synanim
I used this tool in an online conference last night. It was very interesting. I kept hearing Alane (It's All Good) and Karen (Free Range Librarian) in my head--information as coversation! I need to do a post on the various interactive media I've used this year!
Thursday, March 31, 2005
"Cleaning up the past"???
Digitization 101: Writers Settle Tasini Case for $18 Million
I'm still looking for something that tells me the database publishers are actually going to go back and add the content they took out. All of them? So far, what I've seen is just inference. Previous discussions with news librarians led me to believe that the articles and their indexing had been completely incised from the commercial databases, not just masked or whathaveyou. I set up a Google Alert--will let you know if I get anything!
I'm still looking for something that tells me the database publishers are actually going to go back and add the content they took out. All of them? So far, what I've seen is just inference. Previous discussions with news librarians led me to believe that the articles and their indexing had been completely incised from the commercial databases, not just masked or whathaveyou. I set up a Google Alert--will let you know if I get anything!
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
It's all good: "Laying the Newspaper Gently Down to Die"
It's all good: "Laying the Newspaper Gently Down to Die"
I'd rather Alane hadn't drawn the link to libraries. The mood here is very black. Just back from a "big weeding" meeting. I'm not sure how I feel about selling off all the bound periodicals because there's an electronic product. I want to look into that, and Archival Solutions. Soon!
I'd rather Alane hadn't drawn the link to libraries. The mood here is very black. Just back from a "big weeding" meeting. I'm not sure how I feel about selling off all the bound periodicals because there's an electronic product. I want to look into that, and Archival Solutions. Soon!
Library Journal - Google Scholar Advances, Universities Test Link Resolvers
Library Journal - Google Scholar Advances, Universities Test Link Resolvers
Hmm. I know we have Serials Solution, but I don't think we have a link resolver. I can see some use, though! I wonder if one would work with JSTOR?
Hmm. I know we have Serials Solution, but I don't think we have a link resolver. I can see some use, though! I wonder if one would work with JSTOR?
$18 Million Settlement to Freelance Writers
NWU - Benefits of Membership
Will we get back some of the "lost" content from online databases? Can I throw away those CD-ROMs we've saved because they present pre-Tasini indexing? We own the microfilm. I still don't think Tasini meant to ditch the indexing, but that has been it's effect. We need the indexing, but mounting the CD-ROMs is impossible on our network. Can I throw them away? Please?
Will we get back some of the "lost" content from online databases? Can I throw away those CD-ROMs we've saved because they present pre-Tasini indexing? We own the microfilm. I still don't think Tasini meant to ditch the indexing, but that has been it's effect. We need the indexing, but mounting the CD-ROMs is impossible on our network. Can I throw them away? Please?
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Sometimes you just have to say: this is wrong
Philadelphia Councilman Michael Nutter addressing Free Library of Philadelphia administrator Kevin Vaughan and the library administration that put forth the plan to layoff librarians and "express" 20 libraries at City Council hearings on March 17, 2005:
...at some point in time in your professional career,
there comes a moment;
there comes a challenge;
there comes a circumstance;
when sometimes you just have to say no.
I'm not doing that.
I am a professional.
This is not professional.
I am not engaging in it.
I am not putting that plan forward
and signing my name to it;
because I am a professional at what I do.
...there comes a point in every person's circumstances or situation,
when sometimes you just have to say:
This is wrong.
It is not good enough.
If you want me to implement this;
Go find someone else to do it.
Sometimes you just got to say that:
to let people know how serious you are
about what's going on.
As opposed to going along to get along...
...at some point in time in your professional career,
there comes a moment;
there comes a challenge;
there comes a circumstance;
when sometimes you just have to say no.
I'm not doing that.
I am a professional.
This is not professional.
I am not engaging in it.
I am not putting that plan forward
and signing my name to it;
because I am a professional at what I do.
...there comes a point in every person's circumstances or situation,
when sometimes you just have to say:
This is wrong.
It is not good enough.
If you want me to implement this;
Go find someone else to do it.
Sometimes you just got to say that:
to let people know how serious you are
about what's going on.
As opposed to going along to get along...
Friday, March 25, 2005
Friday, March 18, 2005
Biblioblatherblog defined, explained
I am a librarian. (No, this is not a twelve-step group.) Sometimes, I am a bibliographer. Originally, I called/thought of this as libblather. But I didn't really like the way it sounded (lie blather) or the way the double-b looked. I do get hung up on that kind of thing. Seven years writing and proofreading ad copy.
I blather. Blather n : foolish gibberish [syn: blatherskite] v : to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby" [syn: babble, smatter, blether, blither] Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
I don't think it has quite that meaning for me. For me, the foolish part is that I want things to be fun. Fooling around, you know? To have some serendipity. To find some things in the cracks of the pavement. Some giggles. Even cackling and guffaws. But also some nice big crunchy ideas.
I need to wrap my brain around things sometimes. Much of my work is not intellectually demanding at all. I worry. I worry about libraries and patrons and vendors and funding and being the only person who blogs or reads library blogs in a building with some 40+ librarians. So some of this will be reflective.
Oh, that's right, I'm a department head. Middle management. Kind of weird. Even though I've been with this system ten years, I'm considered "new". Even though I have a lot of grey, I'm considered "very young" for a department head. I'm so old I can barely IM. I can't game. But here I am "very young". I have to present and support library policies, some of which are crazy. So I will use this sometimes to vent a little about the weirdness. And to pretend that there are others of me, who didn't just graduate from library school, and who have pronounced views on punctuation!
I'm going to try to import some of the posts from my bloglines blog. It's here if you want to visit the origins of biblioblather.
I like to give my brain, all of it, a workout. New ideas. Old ideas. Odd juxtapositions. Looking at the bright and shiny, and grubbing around in the back of beyond and the back of the closet. Biblioblather.
I blather. Blather n : foolish gibberish [syn: blatherskite] v : to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby" [syn: babble, smatter, blether, blither] Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
I don't think it has quite that meaning for me. For me, the foolish part is that I want things to be fun. Fooling around, you know? To have some serendipity. To find some things in the cracks of the pavement. Some giggles. Even cackling and guffaws. But also some nice big crunchy ideas.
I need to wrap my brain around things sometimes. Much of my work is not intellectually demanding at all. I worry. I worry about libraries and patrons and vendors and funding and being the only person who blogs or reads library blogs in a building with some 40+ librarians. So some of this will be reflective.
Oh, that's right, I'm a department head. Middle management. Kind of weird. Even though I've been with this system ten years, I'm considered "new". Even though I have a lot of grey, I'm considered "very young" for a department head. I'm so old I can barely IM. I can't game. But here I am "very young". I have to present and support library policies, some of which are crazy. So I will use this sometimes to vent a little about the weirdness. And to pretend that there are others of me, who didn't just graduate from library school, and who have pronounced views on punctuation!
I'm going to try to import some of the posts from my bloglines blog. It's here if you want to visit the origins of biblioblather.
I like to give my brain, all of it, a workout. New ideas. Old ideas. Odd juxtapositions. Looking at the bright and shiny, and grubbing around in the back of beyond and the back of the closet. Biblioblather.
Can papers end the free ride?
Bloglines | My Feeds
"...the number of people who read the paper online now surpasses the number who buy the print edition"
"...the number of people who read the paper online now surpasses the number who buy the print edition"
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
New Voices Community News Grant $17,000
March 17th Deadline!
New Voices News Project
J-lab is seeking proposals for innovative citizens media projects from
non-profit groups and educational organizations. Grants up to $17,000
are available for community news ventures for up to 2 years. Start up
projects ONLY.
Deadline: March 17, 2005
Request for proposals and application available on-line:
http://www.J-NewVoices.org
New Voices is a pioneering program to seed innovative community news
ventures in the United States. Over the next two years, New Voices will
help fund the start-up of 20 micro-local, news projects with $12,000
grants; support them with an educational Web site, and help foster their
sustainability through $5,000 second-year, matching grants. New Voices is
administered by J-Lab at the University of Maryland and supported by a
grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
New Voices News Project
J-lab is seeking proposals for innovative citizens media projects from
non-profit groups and educational organizations. Grants up to $17,000
are available for community news ventures for up to 2 years. Start up
projects ONLY.
Deadline: March 17, 2005
Request for proposals and application available on-line:
http://www.J-NewVoices.org
New Voices is a pioneering program to seed innovative community news
ventures in the United States. Over the next two years, New Voices will
help fund the start-up of 20 micro-local, news projects with $12,000
grants; support them with an educational Web site, and help foster their
sustainability through $5,000 second-year, matching grants. New Voices is
administered by J-Lab at the University of Maryland and supported by a
grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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