5 new blogs you say? Well I don’t know much about what’s new out there, but I can point you to 5 new(ish) to me blogs.

Cataloging FuturesYes, I’ve mentioned it before, but there are so few cataloging blogs out there that it deserves mentioning again
Discovery XQueryWhile Matt doesn’t post very often, his posts are [...]

I was having a chat with Chris Schwartz the other day about which technologies we should be looking at for our library. She asked me if I thought we needed to pay attention to Second Life - if this was really where our students were. I don’t know the answer to this without asking [...]

I have updated my Publications & Presentations page to include some upcoming items:

Pending: "How to Start Your Own Blog," and "The Quickie Wiki,"
In Librarians Beyond the Circ Desk: Innovative Librarianship Today. McFarland Publishers, Inc. Jefferson, NC. Expected 2008.
Out Front With Stephen Abram: A Guide For Information Leaders (Book Review)
Journal of Web Librarianship, vol. 1, no. [...]

Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples by Walt CrawfordThe purpose of this book is to guide you to blogs that you might find useful when thinking about your own library?s case?blogs from nearby libraries, blogs from libraries with similar service populations, or blogs that specialize in topics or work in
ccLearnccLearn is a division of Creative Commons [...]

I didn’t get a chance to do a thorough testing of Bloglines Beta yet, but there is a detailed post over at Read/Write Web that you might be interested in.
I’ll continue to test it out, but for now: Bloglines has me back as a fan!
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Straight from my inbox:
SHAKE UP YOUR THINKING
WITH THE PHILADELPHIA SLA'S TECH-TOPICS SERIES
The TechTopics Series will be comprised of three evening workshops concentrating on new technologies and tools, and are designed for anyone who is interested in keeping their skill sets up-to-date.
These "hands-on" workshops will provide you with an overview of new technologies such [...]

I’m not completely sure how to respond to Martha Yee’s article entitled “Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation?“, but I do want to respond.
While reading the article I found myself nodding and then saying “yeah, but…” I think that Martha is right in many ways, but [...]

Fedora CommonsFedora Commons provides sustainable technologies to create, manage, publish, share and preserve digital content as a basis for intellectual, organizational, scientific and cultural heritage by bringing two communities together.
Managing Electronic Records and Assets: a Bibliography
WebologyWebology is an international peer-reviewed [open access] journal in English devoted to the field of the World Wide Web and [...]

If you’re in the Princeton area on Sept 4, come hear me chat about the CMS at the Public Library Tech Talks.

Over at Designing Better Libraries, Steven Bell has a post listing a few innovation blogs to get your creative juices flowing:
Ideas 108 - This blog is dedicated to providing you with a steady stream of creative problem-solving tips and techniques.
The Innovator's Digest - Gerald Haman's new weblog, which appears to be focused on helping to [...]

I have finally made the leap! As I unpacked boxes (and boxes) of books I entered them into LibraryThing. My lifetime membership is going to come in handy (it has already helped me weed out duplicated from my collection). My focus was on entering the books (not organizing them) so my tags are [...]

Most you know that I’m one of those people who stuck with Bloglines when everyone migrated over to Google Reader. Well, the pay off is here! Bloglines has announced a new Bloglines Beta and it’s slick! I’ve only been playing for a few minutes (I have to get to work!) but I [...]

If you didn’t fill out the survey already, Gerry has re-opened it:
Due To Popular Interest, I’ve Decided To Continue My Survey Of The Use Of Social Networking Sites By Academic Librarians And Libraries.
The Survey has been Re-Opened and Is Available From
[ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/...of-social.html ]
TheSurvey is intended for Those Who Did Not Have An Opportunity To Complete [...]

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PBwiki - Wiki Workshop - Atomic Learning, Inc.

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Some of these sound really great - I just don’t have time right now to take yet another class.
Title: Coaching for Results (Face-to-Face)
Date/Time: 9/17/2007, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EDT
Location: Roanoke Higher Education Authority
Title: Basic MARC Tagging for Books (Live Online)
Date/Time: 9/17/2007-9/18/2007, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT, (meets two hours a day for [...]

I have so much I want to share with you all … but it’s time for me to finish up my finals and I’m still trying to unpack my house. I’ll be back and sharing at the beginning of September.

PennTags: Social Bookmarking in a Technical Services Environment

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Back in May I wrote about a Koha Demo that I organized at the Jenkins Law Library. Well, I did it again! Only this time I got Chris Cormack, VP of Research & Development at LibLime and one of the original developers of Koha to come and talk at the Princeton Seminary Library.
First, on [...]

isbndb.com - free ISBN databaseISBNdb.com project is a database of books in different languages providing on-line and remote research tools for individuals, librarians, scientists, etc.

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Everyone at the conference will be editing the program to include their summaries (and make edits to my summaries). Make sure you check out what people are writing if you weren’t able to attend.
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- Two views on security in software - One is you hope no one finds the problem the other is that you put it out there and hope someone fixes it.
- FreeCiv - Free civ-like game
- Howard County Library System is all open source as well as 2-3 libraries in NZ
- How does staff get [...]

Moderated by Kate Sheehan and Abby Blachly
- 4 Libraries worldwide have LibraryThing for Libraries - still a new service.
- Does everyone know what LibraryThing is? — a social cataloging website - connects you to other users based on what books you share. The only info that LT keeps is usernames and password - so [...]

Ben Armentor - Columbia Computer Programmer was our moderator.
- A lot of people here for the intellectual discussion - a nice balance of catalogers and those here for general interest.
- Ben’s summary of Weinberger’s position: Weinberger’s position is that you can describe the organization of things in collections (the long view). There is an [...]

I’m at Library Camp NYC and I’ve attended some interesting sessions. I know that I usually write nice summaries for conferences - but I’m sure you’ll all forgive me in my exhausted state. Summaries are to follow. Pictures are here.
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