Just what the title says. If I can’t find my dream live-in library, I could try something like this. [lj]
Author: jessamyn
delightful wikipedia timewaster/tool
Steven points me to the live recent changes feed for Wikipedia. This is sort of a neat way to look at how dynamic the project it [good news and bad news to librarians, I know] but also to get a ton of examples, an overview if you will, of what a good update looks like, or what all these updates are doing. You see logged in users, annotated changes, links to more information, and nonsense pages deleted so fast it can make your head spin. Fascinating.
update: one rss feed on lj site
Blake points out the LJ Tech Blog part of the Library Journal site which does have an RSS feed. It’s also got a lot of names you might recognize.
book EULAs? textbook ads?
Just say no to shrinkwrap licenses on reference books. In fact, say “Hell no!” Ads in textbooks? No, no, no!
a few words about the Google paradigm w/r/t libraries
Siva Vaidhyanathan who is one of the contributors to his great blog Sivacracy recently pulled out some comments I’d written about Google’s strong move into the world of [formerly] library content. If you haven’t read his book The Anarchist in the Library I strongly suggest you do so.