Steven’s got a few pictures up from the exhibit hall, including one of me in mid-gesture at the skillshare that I will keep on my desktop as a reminder that, as much as I’d like to, I don’t own my own image.
holy crap – google runs ala search engine!
Speaking of ALA, they now have Google running their site search. This is an amazing improvement to the functionality of the site for a number of reasons: bookmarkable search results, rich search syntax, understandable familiar results. Let’s hope this is a real step in the right direction of increased site usability overall.
radref tooklkit, fair use with cut-and-paste restricted pdfs
Some non-ALA stuff. Sethf has reposted a worth-reading post that’s a bit of a DIY “how to” on how to exercise your fair use rights with PDFs that have cut and paste functionality removed. Why might you need this? He also has a post addressing that.
where’s the swag at ALA?
Please see TangognaT’s schwag wrap-up, this is the sort of thing I love reading blogs for.
rememberance of Noel Peattie
I am very sad to tell you that librarian, poet, and Revolting Librarians [and Redux] contributer Noel Peattie passed away yesterday. He was an amazing man and a wonderful contributor to the field of librarianship. My colleague Chris Dodge has written a remembrance of him which I have posted here.