Hi. I was invited to go to the ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy’s Workshop on Libraries and the Information Commons today. It’s in Cerritos CA at the end of the month and I’m going to try to make it. If anyone else is going or has some pointers for Info-Commons type stuff to read in the meantime, please let me know about it. I’ll be starting with the Washington Office’s Issues Page first of all.
Author: jessamyn
from the mailbag, don’t mess with librarians
From my friend the law professor. “Last night I went to a discussion among a famous local Rabbi (who is also a professor), Jamie Gorelick (member 9/11 Commission and former Assist. Attny Gen. for Clinton), and Viet Dinh (G-town law prof, former AA General for Bush, author of the USA Patriot Act, and poster boy for conservative causes…). Viet made a comment at one point that I think you would like — he said what he had learned from the response to the Patriot Act was ‘Don’t mess with librarians.'”
even I don’t have this sort of free time – the bookshelf project
What is on Jonah Edwards’ bookshelves? Part of the larger bookshelf project on Flickr.
e-rate not all it was cracked up to be anyhow
Karen Schneider has a great post summing up some of the major problems with the existing E-rate discount program and why libraries and schools might be better off lobbying for a different solution than reviving this one.
library elf, another weird and neat web tool
Library ELF is a little beta web service that will tell you when your library books are due and send you email reminders to return them. This is, of course, something vendors should be doing, but many aren’t. My only beef? How about offering a plain text email option, or maybe just an RSS feed alert instead? [catalogablog]