The library blogger community’s own Jessica Baumgart won two awards in the Feedster Developer Contest for her RSS tutorial and Feedster Search Documentation. Nice going Jessica!
some content isn’t there and you can’t get the old stuff
Why searching Google for online resources is like buying a CD at Wal-Mart. [libinblack]
DRM – start learning
All librarians who interact with multimedia at all [that is to say “all librarians”] should start understanding Digital Rights Management issues now. Jenny has a few good anecdotes about why buying items with DRM can be the equivalnet of bad customer service for libraries.
LISFeeds – now attractive!
The new LISFeeds covers 131 blogs and even has a search function. The new and today’s items options means you can do a quick check-in with the LIS world with one click. Plus, it’s attractive. Nice job Blake [and Steven for getting the whole ball rolling on this in the first place, mazel tov on the new job].
why do you go [or not go] to Midwinter?
There has been some discussion on the ALA Council list lately about why people go to conferences and why they don’t go to conferences. As an outreach librarian who asks a lot of people why they DON’T go to the library, this question interests me. Rochelle has a little mock-up of an unofficial survey over on her blog. If you’ve got some feedback that you’d like to give to an ALA Councilor, head over there. If you’d like to read some of the Council back and forth, you can check out the ugly but quite functional ALACOUN list archives where surveying is discussed.