Rory’s putting an end to Library Juice for now and working on some other publishing-type ventures and maybe coming out with a blog in the future. Library Juice was one of very few regular online publications that I would read every time it came out and I’ll miss the combination of interesting one-off links and more thoughtful pieces both by Rory and the people who wrote for him and/or were quoted there.
job opening for displaced librarian, pass it on
ALA President Michael Gorman posted this to the Council list and I made a web page for it using pasta. Please pass this information, or this idea, on.
Temporary Librarian Position, For Librarian Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
In order to offer support to those in our profession who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina, the Henry Madden Library of the California State University, Fresno would like to hire one librarian with an ALA accredited M.L.S. or equivalent who was displaced and/or unemployed because of the hurricane.
linkdump 19sep
Here are all the sites that have been gracing my sidebar blogroll over the past few weeks, for those of you reading via RSS. Previous and future linkdumps can be found using the linkdump tag.
CLNN
DIY Librarian
FreeGovInfo
Infomancy
Jenna
librarian's rant
Mesoj
michael golrick
ScottB
Sirsi VP
Tales from the Liberry
VALISblog
are audiobooks accessible? A TAP report.
Accessibility Trial of the Downloadable Digital Audio Book Service from netLibrary and Recorded Books LLC. At least twelve libraries providing content to the print impaired participated in this project. Upshot? Responses vary, though mejor hurdles mentioned include interacting with the website, dealing with DRM and usability of the Windows Media Player.
The volunteers who participated in this two-month trial had a wide variety of experiences and reactions to those experiences. Some volunteers thought this was the best digital audio book system they had ever tried…. Many of the volunteer testers noted that the quality of the texts, the narration, and the sound was very high.
Others thought the overall system was barely functional and marginally accessible. The content website, the digital rights management system, and Microsoft’s Windows Media Player software presented substantial accessibility challenges for a large portion of the group of volunteer testers.
me in Indiana, recap
I’m here in Michael Stephens’ basement posting this. Here are the notes for the two talks I gave over the past two days:
CHOICE: Empowerment Through Information Technology [seriously]. See also liveblog, photos and blog post
Hot Hot Robot: Sensible Approaches to Technology in Libraries. See also photos which we took, uploaded, tagged and added notes to during our presentation about Flickr. Update: liveblog too
As a fun side bonus, LibraryMan was also in South Bend tonight and we all got to sit around scheming about our ideal future library utopias. Hot!