I went to the Library APIs Breakout session today. It turned into a talk about Talis & their products & business practices. It was pretty neat
Rob Styles (of Talis) went off on a pretty neat tangent/analogy. Rob introduced us to his 3 children.
His 18 month old son is at [...]

For some silly reason I thought it would be okay to record today’s session on the lowest quality - now I’m having trouble hearing them. I’ll try and get some coherent summary posts up - but I apologize to all speakers in advance if I miss an important point or don’t get it quite [...]

First of all - my teammate at Jenkins said it sounds like geek heaven We have a room with tables where we can plug our laptops in - and have free access to wireless - with special extended rights!! But you all aren’t reading so you can be jealous You’re reading [...]

Here I am in HOT Georgia waiting for tomorrow when I get to attend the Code4Lib conference. I didn’t know how to pack for this trip - and it turns out I did it all wrong! Anyway, I’m here - I’m alive - and maybe after a good night’s sleep I’ll be rearing [...]

Today I got to hear Bette Brunelle of Outsell Inc. at the NFAIS 2007 Annual Conference in Philadelphia. Her topic was “Measuring Change: How Disruption Affects to Information Community” - nifty title.
Bette provided us with a bunch of statistics from the Outsell database, but before that, she made a very important point. She [...]

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Steven Cohen points us to III’s Flickr account. And Michael Stephens wonders if they actually have read the Cluetrain Manifesto.
So, we have a vendor that is rather infamous in the biblioblogosphere adopting a 2.0 tool and some of the most unique and respected voices in our profession saying “Hey, vendors..wake up! The world is [...]

Okay, I’m open for any suggestions. I have Akismet and SpamKarma installed on this blog. SpamKarma alone used to be enough and then I thought I’d add Akismet because SpamKarma wasn’t catching 100% of my spam (even though I have very strick settings on). I’m still getting about 3 comment spam posts [...]

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As anyone who’s done a presentation on Firefox knows - it’s always been pretty hard to create a list of your favorite extensions. Enter Extension List Dumper. This little add-on lets you dump your list of extensions and format it based on several options. Here’s my list:

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Dear ILS Vendor:
Like it or not, your world has changed. Libraries now have reasonable ILS options beyond proprietary offerings. Not only are there open source applications like Koha and Evergreen, there are outfits like LibLime and Equinox Software lined up to provide support.
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So what should you do? I’m sorry, but you get paid [...]

I know there are a ton of different geeky options out there, but my husband just sent me this geeky T-shirt and I wanted to share it with you all.

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On Tuesday I taught/presented a professional development session for area law librarians (specifically members of the Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association [GPLLA]). While we aren’t actually doing a full on Learning 2.0 event like other libraries (where staff members learn how to use 2.0 technologies on their own time) I did plant the seed. [...]

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Yikes! I just noticed that one of the classes I was going to take is either full or not offered anymore - so now I’m in a pickle.
This was what I wanted for summer:

Managing Information Orgs (Info 640)

Information Services in Orgs (Info 643)

Library Automation (Info 664)

But I’m going to have to change that because I’m [...]

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It's been over a decade since Library Journal conducted a job satisfaction survey. That study, in 1994, brought attention to the graying of librarianship and has been quoted widely in both government and media. It also unleashed passionate discussion of salaries, image, and [...]

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Do you need to be in a library to be a librarian? Do you need to be surrounded by books and databases to be a librarian?
I had 2 librarian experiences today - both very different.
First, I had a homework assignment that required me to answer some reference type questions. Part of the [...]

Did you order your copy? I just placed my Harry Potter order on Amazon - now I just have to patiently wait … hmmm - patiently … yeah right!! I want it now!

So, in addition to working full time and going for my MLIS, my husband I have decided to put our house on the market and move. We have a realtor coming next weekend to do a market analysis. So this weekend I’m finishing homework and scrubbing the house. I promise I’ll be [...]