Hi. I’m finalizing my schedule for ALA and it’s online here. I’ll be doing a little presentation at the Radical Reference Skill-Sharing workshops which I think is going to be a nifty little worthwhile program. If you’re interested in Radical Reference, there’s a get together on Saturday night during the conference
Jessica Baumgart wins Feedster accolades
The library blogger community’s own Jessica Baumgart won two awards in the Feedster Developer Contest for her RSS tutorial and Feedster Search Documentation. Nice going Jessica!
some content isn’t there and you can’t get the old stuff
Why searching Google for online resources is like buying a CD at Wal-Mart. [libinblack]
DRM – start learning
All librarians who interact with multimedia at all [that is to say “all librarians”] should start understanding Digital Rights Management issues now. Jenny has a few good anecdotes about why buying items with DRM can be the equivalnet of bad customer service for libraries.
LISFeeds – now attractive!
The new LISFeeds covers 131 blogs and even has a search function. The new and today’s items options means you can do a quick check-in with the LIS world with one click. Plus, it’s attractive. Nice job Blake [and Steven for getting the whole ball rolling on this in the first place, mazel tov on the new job].