I went to Library History Seminar XI last week with some other folks from SISLT . It was ok, as with most conferences the presentations were all over the map, some were interesting, some were not. You would think that since LHS is only held every 5 years more people would present their best research, … Read more
In a follow up to this post on cataloging , Sanford Berman is Nerve.com’s, Crush of the Week . And now I get to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, only without the pork. :-)At UTK’s School of Information Sciences I was in the Ph.D program with Dick Kawooya. Among other things Dick is helping … Read more
The Wikipedia definition is a bit sparse, but universal service is the idea the everyone should have access to telecommunications. Classically this idea has only been applied to basic telephone service, it’s why 99% of the United States has the ability to have a land line telephone. This Slashdot discussion talks about the problems with … Read more
I’m starting some research into web services librarianship (or related job titles). Here is my research question, gap in the current research and outcome. Research Question: What are the perceived duties, needed qualifications, etc. of a web services librarian? How does the position announcement compare with actual job functions? Research Gap and Outcome: Since web … Read more
Via librarian.net. This picture is both distrubing and amusing. Glad I didn’t go into cataloging.
From LISNews, The LISNews Librarian Pickup Lines. Use with caution.
If you are a member of ALA’s Library Research Round Table, Doug Raber is running for Vice Chair/Chair-Elect. The polls are open. Vote early and vote often. 🙂
It seems that American Library Association president-elect Michael Gorman doesn’t like blogs or bloggers. Any guess what? Bloggers don’t like him either. And it’s bad when people who blog about library and information science have such a major disagreement withe the head of ALA. Makes you wonder how relevant ALA is. (Disclaimer: I’m a member … Read more
For a while now there has been a bit of a feud going between Rory Litwin of Library Juice and Blake Carver and the community at LISNews. It began with Blake’s article at LISNews wanting some right wing counter-balance to the left wing tilt of the LISNews community. This led to an initial response from … Read more
