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.
Technorati Tags: koha, ils, new zealand awards, open source

…[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 [...]

It’s finally here - I promised that I’d write this ages ago, but I wanted to get my thoughts in order.
When I started at Drexel a little over a year ago, I was completely panicked! I hadn’t been in school for 5 years and when I graduated last time I had sworn that I [...]

I’ve heard about it and read about it - but I’ve never seen WorldCat Local in action. Apparently, Jennifer Ward presented at the LITA forum and showed the University of Washington’s implementation of WorldCat Local. Read about it here and see the demo here. There’s also a demo of San Mateo County [...]

That’s right, the diploma has arrived! I am now a “real” librarian. My only complaint about this piece of paper - well - two complaints. First it’s too big - why is it so darn big? Second, shouldn’t it say “Master of Library and Information Science”?
Anyway, it’s all over, [...]

Marshall Breeding (king of library automation knowledge - at least in my book) is doing a survey on library satisfaction with automation systems. The information was posted 2 months ago - so hurry up and get your answers in:
I am conducting a survey on library automation trends. The survey aims to measure how well [...]

I feel like I should duck after hitting submit on this post - I might be opening up the flood gates - but here it goes!
My friend (and colleague) Chris Schwartz has written about the future of MARC (and probably will have many more posts on this topic).
When it is mentioned, MARC usually gets a [...]

There is a thread on the Web4Lib mailing list regarding Social Software Policies in libraries. It’s great how much info is out on the web!! If you’d like to see policies from other libraries, here are a few that were mentioned:

Washoe County Library System

Newton Free Library

Public Library of Science

Orange County Teen Blog

Longview Public Library

St. [...]

First - Amen to Dorothea! Every one in a while I read something on someone else’s blog that makes me think - that’s what I’ve been thinking but unable to put into words! Dorothea’s Training-Wheels Culture post is one of those posts.
Dorothea’s post starts by pointing to the results of my library school [...]

That’s right - I finally have the results for you. You can browse the survey results on Survey Monkey here, but I don’t feel that that gives you the full picture, so I did a little bit of analysis of my own.
First, I went through and made school names conform to one standard (where [...]

That’s right folks, it’s official. I now have my final grades and am done with library school! I am now an MLIS graduate of Drexel University (and will be paying for the rest of my life). I’ve promised a what I learned in library school post - and it’s coming, I just wanted [...]

I’m working on cleaning up the results for this survey right now (making university names the same, etc) and I’m seeing a few people pointing me to the library websites for their required courses (”You can always look on the schools’ websites for this info.”). I probably need to clarify what I was interested [...]

Ages ago I mentioned that I was going to put this blog into OCLC and by extension WorldCat. I didn’t want to submit the record without consulting a few experts (Jennifer Lang and Christine Schwartz — thank you both) so it took a bit longer than I expected. Since you can’t see my [...]

From my inbox:
The ILS Discovery Interface Task Force, convened by the Digital Library Federation (DLF), is studying the discovery needs of research libraries and their patrons, in order to recommend interfaces to the ILS that discovery applications can use. We want to know what kinds ofdiscovery applications (outside the traditional ILS public access catalog) [...]

Google Books now has a My Library function where you can search Google Books and put items in your own library. You can also share your library link (here’s mine)
Your library has a public URL you can share with other people and even a feed. You can also write reviews, rate the books or [...]

The Online Education Database has an article listing who they objectively think the top 25 librarian bloggers are. Now this is nice and all - but I have to disagree with their methodology - and not because I’m not on the list
To begin, we found a set of Web sites that met [...]

I have gotten such an amazing response to my little survey on library education that I had to pay for a SurveyMonkey account - which means I’ll probably create a more in-depth survey to really get to the meat of what we’re all learning in library school - keep an eye out.

Lately, I’ve been talking to students at other library schools as well as library staff here as I do a bit of homework for my “What I Learned in Library School” post. I realized that I needed a bit more information so I’ve created a 5 question survey for library students and librarians. [...]

I just called my husband into the room to share in my momentous occasion. I have submitted my final MLIS paper ever!!! That’s right folks, while I do not have my final grades yet, the work is done!!! Now I can come home from work and veg if I want to, I [...]