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Monthly Archives: October 2006

On Stereotyping

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

I’m not saying stereotyping is a good thing, let’s get that straight upfront.
But if you sit down to watch network primetime with any member of the legal, medical, or forensic science professions, you will quickly learn that librarians aren’t the only group outraged by their treatment at the hands of the the media [...]

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How Do You Know Whether You’re Early or Late?

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

The conventional wisdom in adopting new tech is “Neither an early adopter nor a latecomer be.” But in our ramped up “faster” world, how do you know when you’re one or the other?
I think it was just last fall that I first learned about Facebook, and just this past spring that I [...]

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Ingenta Shares Holdings with Google Scholar

Friday, October 13, 2006

This little note was squeezed into the middle of an All My Eye entry about Ingenta at the Frankfurt Book Fair:
We’ve been working closely with Google for over 2 years now, and the latest development is that we will be making our library holdings data available to Google Scholar’s Library Links program.
The full press [...]

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New Bird in Colombia

Thursday, October 12, 2006

It’s my birthday, which means it’s time for another diversion.
This guy (girl?), a Yariguíes brush finch, comes in my favorite colors and lives in “the last remnants of a remote Colombian cloud forest,” according to the National Geographic News article.

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iPRES Conference

Thursday, October 12, 2006

I said in my last entry that I planned to blog the Digital Preservation Management Workshop after the fact. Well, it’s going to take me a little while to process the wealth of information I learned (as represented by a 4″, completely full binder), so in this entry I’m skipping ahead to brief comments [...]

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