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Call for contributions: Celeste West Festschrift

jessamyn — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:35:46 +0000

Toni Samek, KR Roberto and Moyra Lang have a call for contributions for a festschrift in memory of Celeste West, co-editor and publisher of Revolting Librarians.

know any Movers & Shakers?

jessamyn — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:50:18 +0000

Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers nominations are open from now until November 10th. Here’s the list of people who have already been honored. Does anyone remember if someone made a hyperlinked list of these names? I seem to recall one but am having trouble finding it.
update: Thanks Amy, it’s Connie Crosby who made the excellent hyperlinked Movers & Shakers list.

please send Sandy Berman a get well card

jessamyn — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:04:25 +0000

Jenna Freedman has information about the serious car accident Sandy Berman was in. Please send him a get well card, or if you’re not postally-enabled, leave a comment for him on Jenna’s blog.

do you make websites? take this survey.

jessamyn — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:44:04 +0000

A List Apart, the ne plus ultra site and community for people who make websites is doing an annual survey to learn more about the people in the larger web community. If you make websites, please take their survey.

Help Rachel and LISJobs get a logo

jessamyn — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:34:03 +0000

Graphically talented? Rachel Singer Gordon is looking for a logo for LISJobs. Deadline is July 7th.

work at LISHost

jessamyn — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:01:53 +0000

Blake Carver is looking for someone to take over day to day operations at LISHost. I’ve pointed many of my tiny libraries there for hosting of their tiny websites. Blake is running a really sweet operation that benefits both himself and the people who host with him. If you’re technically inclined and love helping libraries, consider dropping him a line.

Why do so many library catalogs have human names?

jessamyn — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:58:56 +0000

A question over on Ask MetaFilter which I don’t really know the answer to: why do so many library catalogs have human names?. It’s gotten some decent responses and I suspect there isn’t really one answer but if you have more information than the hive mind team over there, feel free to drop me a note or, if you’ve already got an account, log in and chime in.

Help Pew be Pew with this future scenario survey

jessamyn — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:23:18 +0000

I was asked to fill out a Predictions Survey by the Pew folks. In it, they describe the modern-day status quo of technology and ask for predictions on where these technologies are going and how society uses them. At the end, they ask if anyone has friends or colleagues whose input might be useful. My input was along the lines of “I don’t even agree with your status quo statements” so I figure it might be useful for them to get other opinions. The link to the survey is http://www.psra.com/experts and you have to use the pin 9000 to log in to it.

Going to Access 2007?

jessamyn — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:40:12 +0000

Hi. I have an odd request. I’m going to be speaking at the Access 2007 conference in Victoria BC on October 11th. I’m really looking forward to it. However, travelling there involves going from Tinytown USA to Tinytown Canada which means two small airports which means two long (or expensive, or both) trips. If anyone is driving to Access and heading either through Vancouver BC or Seattle WA on their way there and wouldn’t mind giving me a ride to the conference — I speak on the morning of the 11th, pretty flexible otherwise — I’d be happy to chip in for gas, share my hotel room if it’s logistically possible, or otherwise make it a non-sucky experience for you in the interests of saving the conference promoters money and me some time. Drop a note in the comments or find me in the usual places. I’ll be buying tickets sometime this week. Thanks.

off-topic: see me be revolting at SXSW

jessamyn — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:45:34 +0000

South by Southwest is a big conference thing in Austin Texas in March. It’s made of music, movies and something they call “interactive” which is basically Internet. It’s an interesting conference that I went to once in 2000 and it changed my life pretty much forever. I met a bunch of early bloggers in the flesh and we became friends and the rest is pretty well trod-upon history. During SXSW since then I was often petsitting for my blogger friends while they went to Texas. This year I may be going. There is a panel called Social Network Coups: The Users are Revolting! put together by Annalee Newitz who is all sorts of excellent. There is a good chance I will be speaking on that panel in my role as moderator of MetaFilter. IF… if the panel gets chosen. Fortunately, SXSW is a pseudo-democracy so you can vote for panels you’d like to see. And I say pseudo because you can also implore your friends to vote for you and/or your panel and it’s all kosher. So, if you’re picking up what I’m laying down here, please consider voting for my panel, or any number of interesting panels you’d like to see, whether you’re going or not. And the title of the panel? Pure coincidence.

job opening: data munger needed for Open Library project

jessamyn — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:53:26 +0000

I rarely post links to job here because it seems to me that most postings for library jobs are more or less the same. This one is different. The Open Library project, which I linked to here before, is looking for some new folks. You’d be working with a fun team of geniuses, most notably Karen Coyle who is the chief librarian of the project. Telecommuting an option. Interested? Read the job description, then email Aaron and tell him you heard about it here.

Tasks include: working with our chief librarian, Karen Coyle, to implement algorithms to do data merging and other processing tasks; writing scrapers and crawlers to grab various data sources; writing importers to parse this data into something that can be imported into our database; and managing all the people who want to help us with these tasks.

Carnival of the Infosciences #77 at my house, y’all come!

jessamyn — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:35:11 +0000

Chad strongarm^H^H^H talked me into hosting the wandering Infosciences Carnival which was probably something I should have done a long time ago anyhow. You can participate too, it’s incredibly easy. Send a link to the best library stuff you’ve been reading this week, either via del.icio.us using the carninfo tag or this submission form. Need to know more/ Check out the submission guidelines on the wiki, or just ask me or Chad. Thanks for contributing.

survey: academic library presence in social networking sites

jessamyn — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:43:28 +0000

If you have a second, please take this ten question survey about academic libraries’ presence on social networking sites. [web4lib]

Take Meredith’s survey

jessamyn — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:39:38 +0000

Merdith Farkas is doing a survey of the biblioblogosphere to follow-up on her survey from two years ago. Please take a sec if you are a library blogger and take her survey.

survey: blogs and preservation

jessamyn — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:50:51 +0000

Coming on the heels of my article in Library Journal, Carolyn Hank has a survey on Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation that she’d like you to take.