a sometimes blog about mostly libraries
A colleague just sent this around - OCLC has just released CiteMe, a Facebook application that searches WorldCat and formats citations. From the OCLC blog: A nifty new WorldCat app has just been released on Facebook called CiteMe. Type in a title, author, subject, or isbn and presto! A formatted citation comes up, right in... Continue Reading →
Within five minutes of meeting me you're likely to discover my three main characteristics - I'm a librarian, I come from a long line of wonderfully stereotypical Texans, and I love food. The combination of these traits means that I am hyper-aware of both manners and hospitality. It may come as news to some, but... Continue Reading →
I'm always interested in news about developing kiosk/remote/ library service models - particularly ones that seem like they will actually work - so I was happy to hear that a Contra Costa County Library BART station book lending machine is now operational. The program is known as Library-a-Go-Go, and you can read a press release... Continue Reading →
There has been some discussion lately about ALA's Emerging Leaders program excluding non-MLIS library staff from applying - Lori Reed over at Library Trainer rightly takes issue with this requirement, resolving to let her membership in ALA lapse in protest. Sarah Houghton-Jan and Paul Signorelli have also responded in support of Lori, advocating for the... Continue Reading →
Once again Lia's UCSD Arts Blog clues me into something rad: FontStruct, an awesome web-based program that lets you design fonts and share them via Creative Commons. Download and rate "fontstructions" in the site's Gallery. A few examples of styles created with the program:
Because I'm a little terrified of the exhibits hall, I rarely find anything of interest in the deluge of pre-Annual mailbox fodder. Yesterday was an exception - SPARC, one of my favorite organizations (judged in part on the strength of its acronym - the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) sent a mailer introducing its... Continue Reading →
My favorite librarian partner-in-crime Lia Friedman and I wrote a little something for LJ this month - let us know what you think.
As tagged by Ellie. Here's my contribution to the passion quilt meme, which is admittedly a bit depressing when compared with the others: Platonic quilt, perhaps? It's still good advice for the young and the restless. Being a little slow on the uptake with my response most everyone I wanted to tag has already participated... Continue Reading →
As usual, Lia sent me something awesome weeks ago and I'm finally getting around to posting it. I think this might be one of the best, most random things I've seen this year: It's called the Open Source Embroidery Project. Need I say more? There's an amazing steampunk version out there as well.
(Yet another attempt at breaking the insanity-induced silence of this quarter - bear with me, y'all. I'll be back on the ball soon). Today a colleague recently forwarded me the link to Citricon, a new flash game developed by the Orange County Library System - I haven't had much time to play around with it... Continue Reading →
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