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December 11, 2007 – 7:43 pm

The Library Problem:
In March of 2006 my wife Mary and I owned about 3,500 books. We both have eclectic interests, voracious appetites for knowledge, and a great love of used bookstores. The problem was that we had no idea what books we had or where any of them were. We lost books all the time, [...]

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Library 2.0 Subject Guides

October 24, 2007 – 10:25 am

Ellyssa Kroski’s Librarian?s Guide to Creating 2.0 Subject Guides is good introduction for Librarians who think know ?there has to be a better way.? But why no mention of blogs and blogging tools? (I’m still really happy that when you search our catalog for something, a subject guide for that term appears (if we have [...]

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Banned Books Week Dilemma

October 4, 2007 – 10:33 am

Our intention is to feature ?a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech,? but on this post about Holocaust denial I found myself unwilling (and unable) to link to the free, online PDF full text of David Irving’s Hitler?s War. And when we discovered it wasn’t in our [...]

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?to ascertain if the applicant is still living?

September 28, 2007 – 5:56 am

Whose Library Is It Anyway?: A Visit to the Lenox
[tags]library, libraries, humor, lennox library[/tags]

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Launch!

September 6, 2007 – 3:09 pm

A little more than two years after I realized how (really) bad the problem was and about 18 months after I prototyped my solution, our new library website, catalog, and knowledgebase launched last week — just in time for the fall semester opening.
It’s all built on Scriblio, includes a very simple new books list that [...]

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Presentation: Faceted Searching and Browsing in Scriblio

June 27, 2007 – 12:01 pm

I was honored to be a panelist at the LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group presentation of ?Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse.?
What is faceting? Why is it (re)emerging in use? Where can I see it in action? This program is intended to introduce the audience to facet theory, showcase implementations that [...]

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Presentation: Transforming Your Library With Technology

June 26, 2007 – 12:27 pm

Contents:

Your library is more than books…your website should be too
Your website is not a marketing tool…it?s a service point.
Culture is local…so are our libraries.
Examples

Part of the Transformation Track, Transforming Your Library, and Your Library?s Future, with Technology, program coordinators Alan Gray and John Blyberg (both of Darien Public Library) described it like this:
Technology can transform [...]

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Two Books On A Shelf…

June 18, 2007 – 11:17 pm

Two books that just happened to be sitting next to eachother in the LC files:
001 47029455
003 DLC
005 20050826211147.0
008 761229s1946 xx 000 0 [...]

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Open Source Software and Libraries; LTR 43.3, Finally

June 7, 2007 – 9:01 am

The most selfish thing about submitting a manuscript late is asking ?When is it going to be out?? So I’ve been waiting quietly, rather than trouble Judi Lauber, who did an excellent job editing and managing the publication.
Ryan and Jessamyn each contributed a chapter, and I owe additional thank yous to the full chorus of [...]

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Poke Your Tech Staff With Sticks, And Other Ideas

June 6, 2007 – 12:39 pm

What a difference a year makes? Jessamyn was among those sharing her stories of how technology and tech staff were often mistreated in libraries, but there’s a lot of technology in this year’s ALA program (including three competing programs on Saturday: The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate, Social Software Showcase, and Transforming Your Library With [...]

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Usability, Findability, and Remixability, Especially Remixability

April 17, 2007 – 12:06 pm

It’s been more than a year since I first demonstrated Scriblio (was WPopac) at ALA Midwinter in San Antonio. More than a year since NCSU debuted their Endeca-based OPAC. And by now most every major library vendor has announced a product that promises to finally deliver some real improvements to our systems.
My over-simplified list said [...]

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My Boston Library Consortium Presentation

April 17, 2007 – 11:27 am

Speaking Thursday at the Boston Library Consortium’s annual meeting in the beautiful Boston Public Library, my focus was on the status of our library systems and the importance of remixability.
My blog post on remixability probably covers the material best, but my slides are online as both an animated QuickTime and PDF.
BPL, BLC, boston library consortium, [...]

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Moving and Shaking and Shimmy-ing

April 8, 2007 – 9:37 am

It’s sort of late by now, and others have been offering their congratulations to me for a while (thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you), but I only just got the paper copy myself and this morning had a chance to browse the list.
Mover & Shaker alumnus John Blyberg asked me if I [...]

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Who Will Be First To Put A MetroNaps Pod In Their Library?

March 29, 2007 – 3:25 pm

MetroNaps started business in 2004 with a boutique in NYC’s Empire State Building, selling 20 minute naps for $14 bucks. The company has slowly been opening franchises around the world, but MetroNaps co-founder Arshad Chowdhury says overwhelming interest from office folks who wanted to install the pods on-site as an employee perk. So the company [...]

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This Blog Is For Academic And Research Purposes Only

February 8, 2007 – 8:59 pm

This sign on a computer in the Paul A. Elsner Library at Mesa Community College caught Beth’s eye and garnered a number of comments, including one from theangelremiel that seems to mark one of the most elusive aspects of Library 2.0.
they know that none of their classes require gaming
Excerpting the above as a simple declarative [...]

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