librarian.net

why mandating filters doesn’t work

Welcome to the club of the misfiltered, Oregon Libraries! According to Sethf, the Oregon Libraries Network web site is classified by N2H2 as “pornography” and hence is unviewable by 40% of schools in the US, according to their statistics. You can check to see if your own site is filtered. More over at LISNews. Here are the result from a few of my pages:

librarian.net – not currently categorized
jessamyn.com – “Web Page Hosting/Free Pages” [incorrectly]
jessamyn.com/journal – “Message/Bulletin Boards” [note: this could apply to any blog]

tattooed librarians

Posted on 25Jan05 by jessamyn

Way back when, before librarian.net and before Gail Kwak’s excellent site, I was going to do a web site of tattooed librarians. Seems like the topic is coming up again, this time on WebJunction

submit to the bookmobile!

Posted on 25Jan05 by jessamyn

Submission deadline for the Mobilivre Bookmobile project is coming up. [thanks jill]

cataloging, berman, folks folksonomies

Posted on 23Jan05 by jessamyn

Two good posts in the archives over at Catalogablog. David talks about folksonomies, the word we love to worry about, in the same week as he discusses the fate of the Hennepin County Library Authority files, which are sadly inaccessible. When I was taking the bus down to ALA, Greg and I were in the bus terminal discussing Dewey and another guy leaned over and said “are you talking about Melvil Dewey? Are you guys librarians?” When I said that I was, one of the first things he said was “Do you know Sandy Berman?” I was happy to say that I do.

one last reading list

Posted on 23Jan05 by jessamyn

It was really gratifying seeing so many librarians and others putting their reading lists online. Even though we don’t do a lot of reading at our jobs, I think being well and broadly-read is an important part to being a good librarian. Here’s one last not-online reading list that I’ve been enjoying over this wintery weekend.