Speaking of the USA PATRIOT Act, many of the nation’s top criminal justice experts don’t like it either according to a recently released report from Thomson Publishing. update: you can read the whole report here. [pdf]
Month: May 2004
a digital aquifer of national interest information
Towards the Digital Aquifer: introducing the Common Information Environment
“In the Knowledge Economy, ready access to high quality, high value information must become a right and an expectation for all. The Common Information Environment is a large part of the process by which we all get there.” [pscott]
another kind of web logs
Today the assistant director and I puzzled over the monthly web stats from our site trying to discern patterns and deduce meaning. I’m good with stats, but bad with ones that have been post-processed with tools I’m not super-knowledgeable about. As with many web tricks, I prefer to check the raw log files to answer questions like “Why are 2% of our hits going to the 404 page?” and “Are we just seeing an increase in hits because we finally made the library web site the home page on all library’s computers?” I encourage you to extract meaning from your web site statistics. Karen Coombs over at Library Web Chic has laid out some intro pointers on what to look for when you look at your logs.
a nice grouchy blog
Sulkbrarian is just trying to keep it real, people. Her [?] posting of a listserv gem “Subject: An Open Letter To Library Directors” is worthy of Revolting Librarians any day.
“And lastly to those info pro recruiters who think that an individual can survive as a $10/hr temp in one of the most expensive cities in the US, as former librarians and MLS holder you are cheapening the profession by sending master’s level professionals to do work for
only 75% the going rate of your average GED holding secretarial temp worker. The message that you are sending to employers is that we have no worth as a profession. ” [thanks jemmy]
only 75% the going rate of your average GED holding secretarial temp worker. The message that you are sending to employers is that we have no worth as a profession. ” [thanks jemmy]
six easy steps to cataloging your home book collection
Want to catalog your home book collection? Kendall Clark shows you how in six easy steps, more or less. Part of his Hacking the Library series which is all well worth a read. [catalogablog]