You all know how much I love political activism, but is it strictly kosher for an OPAC vendor to be making partisan political statements with the links they add to content-included catalogs? Check the Hot Links section on the Lackawanna County System, for example.
Author: jessamyn
“I know this is boring but it could save you a lawsuit”
Please read what the LibraryLaw Blog has to say about being in compliance with some arcane copyright law requirements. Does your library have someone designated to receive copyright complaints?
maybe ebooks are good for something
An unlikely place for campaigning: in the subject lines of pirate ebook titles. From alt.binaries.e-book.technical. [thanks clint]
library catalog tutorial from Infopeople
Infopeople has done the seemingly impossible. They have created a library catalog tutorial that works with just about any online library catalog. It’s a little generic but I found that even though my OPAC at work is pretty much nothing like the one they illustrate, people can still understand how to map from one to the other. Point your users to it, it’s really helpful.
eleven must-have comics for libraries
My friend Steve — who is married to a real live librarian — compiled a list of eleven graphic novel/comic titles that libraries should shelve. The idea caught on and now TangognaT [holy crap I never noticed that was a palindrome before!] has collated those lists into one uberlist.