I can blog about how cool libraries are — even for tech nerds like me — until I’m blue in the face, but once sexy web hipster destinations like Lifehacker catch on to libraries excellentness, well, all I can do is comment.
Month: February 2006
copyright programming at ALA Annual in New Orleans
ALA’s Office for Technology Policy has their programmming for ALA Annual in New Orleans scheduled already. If you have a particular love of copyright issues, you may want to go to some of these events.
Best Practices in Digital Reference: Copyright, Licensing, and Privacy Guidelines (Linda Arret)
Sunday, June 25 8-10am
The Long Tail: The Internet, Culture, and the Mega-Store (Nancy Kranich)
Monday, June 26 10:30-12noon
Copyright 101: Everything You Wanted to Know about Copyright But Were Afraid to Ask (CAC, CAN, COL-IP)
Monday, June 26 1:30-3:30
Ray Patterson Copyright Award and Reception (CAN, CAC, OITP)
Monday, June 26 4-5:30pm
ACRL’s Copyright Program: Copyrights and Licensing Wrongs (as an FYI)
Sunday, June 25 10:30-12noon
Google Book Search amplifies our efforts
University of Michigan President defends their relationship with the Google Book Search project (full speech pdf download). Intriguing comments below including Siva and a plug by librarians’ own SuperPatron on another way of harnessing the power of the Google Book Search for libraries. [thanks molly]
tag testing complete
Hi. Using PhpMyAdmin and some clever database management, I was able to import all my tags from my old unsupported tag plug-in to the more industry-standard tag plug-in Ultimate Tag Warrior. It seems to work. The solution involved custom creating some tables, using some unorthodox importing methods and a small amount of cursing. My next plan is to figure out why the Bloglines feed of librarian.net isn’t smoothly updating to the new feed. Thanks for your patience. Please check out the new tag cloud at the bottom of the main page.
local vermont library trivia
Apparently the board of libraries is responsible for authorizing and keeping track of name changes to state-owned property. This is why the state librarian is commenting on the dispute on a pond name change. It’s an old story but one that I came across in my Googling for town websites to help flesh out Wikipedia’s Vermont town pages.