Radical Reference has posted the results of its call-out for LC subject heading suggestions. Entries include BOLLYWOOD FILMS, EASTERN FILBERT BLIGHT, FOLKSONOMY, FREEGANISM, and GENDER DIFFERENCES, among others. Many thanks to RR for helping drag bibliographic control a little further out of the 19th century.
my cil 2008 presentation.
I finally got around to uploading my slides from Computers in Libraries... ... only to realize that they match my blog.
take a (constructive) swipe at subject headings.
Check out this awesome project from Radical Reference, as written up in The Experiment: Viva RR! Do subject headings still matter? We say they do. Does the Library of Congress always identify accessible and appropriately named headings and implement them in a timely manner? We say not always. All you have to do is spend... Continue Reading →
teaching technology/ies.
I've been on a bit of a self-imposed break from blogging after my fingers fell off at Computers in Libraries, but this morning I read an interesting older post by Steven Bell on ACRLog that I thought merited a (long) response. In it, he critiques the growing wave of Library 2.0-esque technology classes in LIS... Continue Reading →
that’s what i’m talking about.
Yet another example of indignant librarians doing free inquiry a good turn - it appears that the recent revelation about the federally-funded Popline (Population Information Online) database's use of "abortion" as a stopword has been addressed, and fast. American Libraries reports on the effective response to this disturbing news.
henry jenkins webcast archive.
ACRL has released the archive of media culture guru Henry Jenkins' Springboard Webcast, in which I jaw briefly and also managed to liveblog earlier this month. Also, you can listen to a podcast interview between Jenkins and David Free, College & Research Libraries News editor. In my opinion, Jenkins is the academic producing work with... Continue Reading →
even imaginary libraries are “sexy.”
A friend just sent me this libraries-in-movies Entertainment Weekly article in honor or National Library Week - 18 Sexy Trips to the Library Stacks, which includes, of course, the likes of Emilio Estevez pot-smoking in the AV room in Breakfast Club: Only about three are actually sexy in any way. As far as real-life stacks... Continue Reading →
free this, free that.
PC Magazine has put together an excellent list of the best free software available (open source and proprietary) for a host of uses - the article features brief descriptions of free tools from operating systems to blogging to audio and video communication that link through to full product reviews. Definitely worth looking over.
cil2008: staff tech training
part 1: sarah houghton-jan (Due to time constraints and conference craziness I haven't given much evaluative opinion on the presentations I've seen in these posts, but let me just say that in 20 minutes S. H-J did a spot-on job of offering a coherent/useful synthesis of this potentially nebulous and never-ending topic. Very well done.)... Continue Reading →
cil2008: libraries as happiness engines, day 3 keynote
Liz Lawley, Director at Lab for Social Computing at Rochester Institute of Techology start thinking about libraries as some thing more than a place, think of them as an emotional center of communities, as a place that makes people happy. increasing recognition of the importance of happiness. Inspiration for talk came from a gaming as... Continue Reading →
info-mational 