putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999
An interview with the real Coach Carter where he discusses the value of libraries.
Strange little bit of news that came to me via the “copy and paste a press release into my mailto form” Allibris will be offering books for sale via OCLC’s WorldCat so librarians can buy a book instead of ILLing it. OCLC will bill you, making it even stupidly simpler. No postage, no mailing & return envelopes, no messy labelling. Is this the future of interlibrary loan? Is it really cheaper to buy the book than ILL it?
Wacky and weird subject headings, a collaborative wiki-project from the folks at The Marginal Librarian. [thanks beth]
I have a somewhat hard time keeping my reading list updated. Sometimes it’s a choice between writing about one book, or reading another one. Patricio on Flickr has found another way of keeping track of his reading for 2005.
Speaking of folksonomies, I would like to mention that the very first time I came across this group tagging phenomenon, it was not at del.icio.us or flickr, it was at the Gimp Savvy Copyright-Free Photo Archive where they have selections of unindexed images and invite users of the site to help classify them. Just by looking at their list of tags, which they call master keys, you can see how this works and does not work. In specific, see this example.