Category: ala

The Feminist task force of SRRT has come out with their 2004 list of recommended feminist books for youth. [juice]

ALA unveiled the new shorter URLs today. You know what? They really are shorter. They’re not short, but they are shorter and that’s a really big step in the right direction. See what you think, send feedback at feedback@ala.org. They will not know it’s broken if you don’t tell them, the website is too big for daily brokenness-checking.

Embarassingly, I was 30 minutes late to a Council meeting at the conference, missing two votes, because I had paid attention to one of the many schedules on the website, and it was wrong. I wrote a pointed letter, got a sincere apology, and I guess I get to cross my fingers for next time.

While I don’t feel like dragging my jet lagged fingers through the search engine on ALA’s site today to link to what went on, Karen had some daily updates that can give you a rough idea. Turns out that the wireless that we thought was going to cost us $25/day wound up being completely free. And I left my laptop at home.

The example URL in the ALA press release entitled “ALA web site will feature short [sic] URLs” is, itself, this long: http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/statementsif/librarybillrights.htm. To be fair, a 75 character URL will not generally break in mailreaders. I’m interested to see what the reception will be to this “improvement”.