Archive for the 'Librarianship' Category
I’m thinking about going back to school for a Post-Master’s Certificate. Does this make me a glutton for punishment? As an academic librarian I have access to this wonderful thing called “tuition remission” which basically translates to free tuition for a max of four classes per year. I’ve thought and thought about [...]
The next three days I’ll be hanging out in Crystal City at the Computers in Libraries conference. The sessions look pretty good — I’m especially excited about a day-long track about the “Next-Gen Catalog Interface“. Right up my alley.
This will be my third CiL and while I’ve enjoyed each one, I’m considering a [...]
According to the New York Times, it’s cool to be a librarian. A Hipper Crowd of Shushers
The flight from expertise
1 Comment Published by Jonathan June 13th, 2007 in Librarianship, TechnologyMichael Gorman wrote a couple of interesting blog (!) posts in which he assails Web 2.0 and the “wisdom of crowds” as “a desire to avoid individual responsibility; anti-intellectualism…” In his words, “The life of the mind in the age of Web 2.0 suffers, in many ways, from an increase in credulity and an [...]
I was browsing the various job search feeds I subscribe to and I started thinking about job titles. Sometimes library technology job titles can sum up well what the responsibilities are, but for the most part they don’t really say much except “this position has something to do with technology”. Add to that [...]
Your very own Google powered search
0 Comments Published by Jonathan October 24th, 2006 in Librarianship, TechnologyGoogle has made available a service that allows anyone to build their own customized Google search right into their own website. The user is able to specify the websites to be searched.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eureka-your-own-search-engine-has.html
What is one way this might be used? Many librarians (and other people) maintain link lists or web directories that point to [...]
So the buzz is starting to build about George Mason’s citation tool Zotero. It is an extension for Firefox that is meant to replace desktop programs like RefWorks and Endnotes. And its free. And its open source. For those who read a lot of journals this will be fantastic thing.
Del.icio.us is [...]
Daniel at OneBigLibrary.net provides us with some amusing metaphors comparing metadata types to music. Hilarious. MARC == western tonal ? RDF == twelve tone ?
Read it for yourself: Troll baiting with poorly thought out metadata metaphors
I’m wondering where Frank Zappa would fit into this.
