Wednesday, February 28, 2007
My last day in the office is tomorrow and then I tackle the job of moving in earnest. I expect things will be quiet here for a while. I’m cleaning out my del.icio.us bookmarks as well as my files; here are a few pages for your amusement:
Yahoo! vs. Google search results – visualize [...]
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
From this Thingology post:
Some day, if we have enough shared users [with Cork'd], LibraryThing can recommend books based on the wines you drink!
Awesome!
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
In the course of wrapping up at Binghamton, I’ve needed to save quite a bit of professional e-mail, mainly correspondence related to presentations, articles, the list I manage. I also want to maintain several discussion list subscriptions that I’ve had through my work account.
So, I set up a new Gmail account just for professional [...]
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
I’ve been cleaning out files and came across some real gems among my papers from a supervisory workshop I attended several years ago. One document, included for its shock value, is an excerpt from a WWII-era article about “Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees.” Among the “helpful tips” are:
2. When you have [...]
Thursday, February 15, 2007
My SUNY colleagues in Oswego have found a professional use for all that snow they have: send the newest librarian up to the top of a very large snow bank and take her picture! Emily Hart, reference and instruction librarian and native Oswegonian, reports, “I’m not sure how tall it was…big! There was a significant [...]
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
I’ve added Feedburner’s e-mail subscription option over on the right side of the page. If you use it, please let me know how it works.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Some musicians and bands have been a fleeting presence in my life, easily evoking a very particular time or experience whenever I hear their music. Others have stayed with me as lifelong friends, following me through college and grad school, into marriage and professional life. Here it seems appropriate to invoke Dar Williams, whose [...]
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
We work with a lot of different vendors at MPOW (my place of work). Various parts of our e-resource administration and access are powered by products from Ex Libris, Serials Solutions, and III. (We are currently a development partner for Encore by III, but I can’t say any more about that or we’ll [...]
Monday, February 12, 2007
I had heard of E-LIS but forgot about it. From the site:
E-LIS relies on the voluntary work of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and is non-commercial. It is not a funded project of an organization. It is community-owned and community-driven. We serve LIS researchers by facilitating their self-archiving, ensuring the long-term preservation of [...]
Thursday, February 8, 2007
It’s been around since last August, but it was news to me (via Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog) that CrossRef has a blog. It looks like posting is picking up in the new year. The tagline is “publishers, collaboration, innovation” and apparently any CrossRef member can contribute.