I don’t know the answer to this, but it seems to me that people all over feel that undergrads today have no idea how to use the library or library resources. I got the impression from an attendee at the NFAIS Humanities Rountable last month that he felt that students were too lazy or that [...]

I think there is a need for a blog/website/mailing list/general list of OCLC Connexion tips! I’ve been attending training at PALINET and keep learning new little tips that will make my life easier - plus I keep finding that I sometimes know a thing or two that the others in the class didn’t. [...]

This sounds very promising. The eXtensible Catalog project has received more funding. I love seeing open source library apps moving forward:
A $749,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the University’s River Campus Libraries will be used toward building and deploying the eXtensible Catalog (XC), a set of open-source software applications libraries [...]

I just had a short chat with a friend about the catalog at her local library. They used to have a terrible system that didn’t seem to work at all and now they’ve put Aquabrowser on top of it:
[09:47] Friend: *sigh*
[09:47] Friend: catalogs are so finicky!
[09:47] Nicole: yep
[09:47] Nicole: what’s the matter now?
[09:47] Friend: [...]

Presented by Ed Corrado of TCNJ - here are the 10 (or so) hacks for the Voyager OPAC (WebVoyage):

New Book List by Michael Doran:

Shelflister by Michael Doran

Spell Checker but not checking against your db - so you can get did you means that aren’t actually in your catalog. (ex at University of Waikato)

Search Voyager [...]

This list of presentations from the Sustaining the Digital Library : Symposium, 13-14 September 2007, University of Edinburgh sounds interesting:
1. Keynote Presentation [pdf], Rick Luce, Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries, Emory University
Rick asks an interesting question: “Could it be that we are well enough funded to be comfortable with our traditional roles?”

2. [...]

I got to hear an update about the new releases of Voyager at today’s conference. One of my biggest complaints about our current system is that it’s ugly - so very very ugly! Now, I have no experience trying to edit the interface of a Voyager system (that’s not my job anymore), but [...]

While watching a demo of Primo at the EMA conference today I had a brainstorm.
Most academic libraries remove the dust jackets from books before putting them on the shelf. This means that adding images of book covers isn’t quite at valuable to us as it might be to a public library. So - [...]

The Daily News: This just in, a volunteer at the Crocker Art Museum Library was crushed to death by the AACR2 (Anglo-American Rules for Cataloguing 2002 edition).
Well, not quite, but that’s what I felt like. I am now volunteering at the Hansen Library at the Crocker Art Museum in downtown Sacramento on Saturdays. I met [...]

I know I haven’t spoken much about my new job, but now I have something big to announce. The Princeton Theological Seminary has signed with Mark Logic to assist in the development of our digital library! The big release was today at a conference at the seminary, but I was at a training [...]

I’m finally reading Everything in Miscellaneous - and it’s awesome. The irony is that I’m taking a two day subject cataloging class. While the instructor (who is awesome and full of energy) talks about how getting the most specific subject heading is our goal and having things in alphabetical order is good - [...]

Via Web4Lib:
Primary Research Group is planning to publish a survey of library use of and relations with mega-internet sites such as Google, Yahoo, Ebay, My Space, YouTube and others. Academic, public, and special libraries are eligible. This is an international survey open to libraries of all countries. Data is aggregated [...]

Via Web4Lib:
Primary Research Group is planning to publish a survey of academic library websites. This survey is restricted to college libraries, including 2-year, 4-year and university websites, and is open to the academic libraries of all countries. The survey should be taken by the library website webmaster or other individual knowledgeable [...]

Right now I’m reading a book (for review) entitled The Academic Library and the Net Generation. In the introduction, Susan Gibbons talks about a study done at Rochester of how the library is used. I was excited and thought the book was going to be about that! When I realized it wasn’t, I [...]

Via LibVive:
Public libraries are the natural venue for tech support problems to get fixed. Libraries care about people’s access to information, right? How about if we tack on an extra $1 to the cost of every new computer — and then fund libraries to stay open some extra hours in the evening (or on the [...]

I just love every video I’ve seen by this man! Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and author/director of The Machine is Us/ing Us has another video addressing the issues brought up in Everything is Miscellaneous (a book I’m finally reading now that I have some time):

Here is my presentation from today’s roundtable meeting:

Library 2.0 & the HumanitiesNFAIS - Humanities Roundtable, New York, NY, October 22, 2007

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Michael pointed me to this interview with John Blyberg - I haven’t finished it yet because lunch is over, but I’m sure it’s worth a listen/looksie

Judith shares with us her reading list and I have to say I’m intrigued - I must now find all of these items and read them.

Using Our Own Services, by Wayne Bivens-Tatum [Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA], Academic Librarian, 9 October 2007, http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2007/10/using_our_own_services.htmlExcerpt: "Librarians would probably be better librarians if the occasionally used [...]

I’m not quite as offended as Chris Schwartz is about the statements made by Chris Oliver in her Changing to RDA article - maybe because I haven’t read it - or the RDA draft, but I wanted to chime in anyway
Chris Oliver says:
The standard is designed to be easy to use and to [...]

So, this is what Librarian Hell looks like ….

As most of you know, I’m new to this area. I’ve driven past a library on my way to the grocery store that has a sign out front for a book sale. This morning, I wanted to find out more info about this event, but my county’s library website is beyond horrible. [...]

Remember this video? Almost every Web 2.0 talk starts with this video now. Thanks to Stephen I now know that this professor has put together more videos.
Information Revolution
A Vision of Students Today (This is the latest and it’s awesome! A MUST SEE VIDEO. I lve the creation process too.)
Other videos are available [...]

Chris Cormack, Vice President, Research & Development at LibLime, is the winner of the New Zealand Open Source Awards for contributions to the Koha Project and Koha itself was a finalist for the best Open Source Project. Check out the awards.
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…[C]an we ever break the boundaries of departmental self-interest? The Reference department has one perspective, while Circulation has another; Systems/IT has their agenda, while Cataloging has another"”and so on. I've worked in several large academic libraries and this territorial thinking seems to be universal. If each department perceives the "user experience" differently than how can [...]