Hi. I am trying out WordPress as a CMS for librarian.net, so you may notice some odd goings-on over the next few days as I shift all non-blog content over. I figured that people still reading the site the old-fashioned way might want something nice to look at, so while I learn the interface, I’m using an edited “theme” which I’m actually pretty fond of. I know the fonts are a little teeny, I’ll be adding a style-switcher so that there is an easy-read version of this site in addition to this one. You will also notice post titles which had previously only been noticed by RSS readers. Here are things you should not notice after this weekend: broken permalinks, broken links generally, or long miserable URLs. Give me a few days to get all the bugs worked out and then please drop me a line if anything is wretched, lost, suprememly ugly, or hard to use.
my favorite tilded blogger @ the Prelinger Library
One of the high points of ALA Midwinter was meeting Rick Prelinger who I had been swapping email with for a while. He runs one of my favorite quirky archives/libraries in San Francisco. Eli dropped by for a visit this week and discusses what she saw there.
Okay, you should sit down now. Take a few deep breaths. Have a bit of vinegar handy to wave in front of your nose. Ready? There’s no catalog. There’s no call number system of classification. There’s not even rigorously enforced alphabetization of titles (or authors) within sections. It’s deliberate and there’s a philosophy behind it.
start ’em young!
The start of her library…. My pal Matt and his wife and their innovative baby shower.
hi – 28feb
Hi. Spam is weird, we all know that. I got what I think is a truly bizarre piece of spam in the postmaster@ box at my library today.
Effective immediately, your local library hours are changing to 9-5 Monday-Saturday.
If you are not currently using the library, please disregard this message.
Please do not respond as responses to this mailbox are not checked.
Notification for:
[my director’s name]
Rutland Free Library
[variant of my director’s email address]@rutlandfree.org
Thanks!
–Research Team
what is going on with federal depository libraries
Government Information in the Digital Age: The Once and Future Federal Depository Library Program. The Federal Depository Library Program run by the GPO is changing, dramatically. How will this affect you, and your patrons’ access to goverment information? James Jacobs and Shinjoung Yeo have made a preprint of an article they’ve written available.
We believe the GPO’s proposed model will do more to endanger long-term access to government information than ensure it. Libraries have been slow to offer alternatives. Many librarians have even supported GPO’s proposals — perhaps because the long-term implications are not clear.