Category Archives: Library
Will, Google, Hulk
Start of the week library links
School Library bloggers are posting their answers to the recent American Libraries blog article survey questions, since they weren’t represented in the original article.
How the Public Library Became the Heartbreak Hotel
Inside Higher Ed on Information Literacy
Insurance and Library Vengeance
Library Links
What is a Librarian?
The Joy of InterLibrary Loan
This article about faculty contributions to the IR at Cornell is why I think getting faculty to contribute content to an IR in the absence of some sort of mandate is like trying to maneuver a boulder made of jello up a steep hill.
Ask Tangognat: Web 2.0 and Libraries
Greg writes:
I am compiling an annotated bibliography…The topic I am working on is the impact of blogs and what I am calling “web 2.0” applications on libraries (the behind the scenes aspect with the biblioblogosphere as well as on patrons).
So far, I have the following books:
Clyde, L. (2004). Weblogs and libraries. Oxford: Chandos Publishing.
Anderson, C. R., & Sprenkle P. (2006). Reference librarianship: Notes from the trenches. New York: Haworth Information Press.
Sauers, M. (2006). Blogging and RSS: A librarian’s guide. Medford, N.J.: Information Today, Inc.
Stephens, M. (2006). Web 2.0 & libraries: Best practices for social software . Chicago: ALA TechSource.
Would you be able to recommend websites, blog posts or journal articles that are seminal works in this area? Or even “important” works in this area.
I’m really the last person to ask about this topic for various reasons, but I’ll give it a go.
Walt Crawford’s Library 2.0 and “Library 2.0â€
Five Weeks to a Social Library
Libraries in Social Networking Software, Information Wants to be Free in general.
Thingology (Library Thing Blog)
Next Generation Catalogs for Libraries List
This isn’t comprehensive by any means, but hopefully there are a few ideas there to get you started. I’ve been less and less inclined to write about much library stuff recently, and most of it isn’t really on my radar.
Librarian Scorned and Manga Ratings
A Librarian Scorned
Mangablog points out the new Tokyopop age ratings. They seem so very mix and matchable. I wonder what a title would be like if it was rated:
Cartoon Violence
Non-sexual Nondescript Nudity
Illegal Drug Reference
Occultism
Moderate Gore
Batgirl and IM reference
usability and hazards of internet evaluation
LISNews posted about the new usability site set up at the University of Michigan Library.
Seth writes about a google bombing campaign to push martinlutherking.org further down the list of google results. I found this slightly amusing, because one of the reasons why the hate site has such great google juice is due to plenty of people linking to it as part of a library instruction internet evaluation lesson.