Library Cataloging
Announcing new books by people I read on the net is getting to be a common occurrence. Marylaine Block of NeatNew and ExLibris (both worth reading) announces her new book Net Effects.
- Houston Area For Tweens Librarians
Not my area, but for public staff serving tweens the Tweens Read Book Festival looks great. 20 Authors! Free and open to the public! The goal of the Tweens Read Book Festival is to celebrate and promote reading by connecting tweens with authors. The target...
- Amazon.com Citations
Amazon seems to be getting into the citation linking game.Amazon.com Citations is a program that helps customers discover books related to the ones they're interested in. Amazon scans every book in the Search Inside the Book program looking for phrases...
- Economic Impact Of Libraries
Marylaine Block has offered to create a Web page for stories of how libraries have helped individuals become more productive, taxpaying citizens. Seems like it could be a valuable project.I know you have your own success stories, even if they're mostly...
- Not Cataloging
This is a great idea, the Librarians Book Club. How did I miss this for so long? Here is how they describe their mission:The Librarian's Book Club is a group to read and discuss books that are about libraries and the library profession. Every two...
- Metadata
Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia by Cory Doctorow is worth a read and consideration. Grand visions of the Symantec Web where everything is easily found and accessed are shown to be a pipe dream. There are a few problems...
Library Cataloging
New Book
Announcing new books by people I read on the net is getting to be a common occurrence. Marylaine Block of NeatNew and ExLibris (both worth reading) announces her new book Net Effects.
- Houston Area For Tweens Librarians
Not my area, but for public staff serving tweens the Tweens Read Book Festival looks great. 20 Authors! Free and open to the public! The goal of the Tweens Read Book Festival is to celebrate and promote reading by connecting tweens with authors. The target...
- Amazon.com Citations
Amazon seems to be getting into the citation linking game.Amazon.com Citations is a program that helps customers discover books related to the ones they're interested in. Amazon scans every book in the Search Inside the Book program looking for phrases...
- Economic Impact Of Libraries
Marylaine Block has offered to create a Web page for stories of how libraries have helped individuals become more productive, taxpaying citizens. Seems like it could be a valuable project.I know you have your own success stories, even if they're mostly...
- Not Cataloging
This is a great idea, the Librarians Book Club. How did I miss this for so long? Here is how they describe their mission:The Librarian's Book Club is a group to read and discuss books that are about libraries and the library profession. Every two...
- Metadata
Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia by Cory Doctorow is worth a read and consideration. Grand visions of the Symantec Web where everything is easily found and accessed are shown to be a pipe dream. There are a few problems...