What’s your library doing on September 11th? How about working with other libraries nationwide to “to create a day of engagement, a day of conversation, a day of democracy.”
sirsi corporation typos – yes I am a total adolescent
This may be the only time I link to a puff piece about the Laura Bush, but it was too good to ignore. Sirsi, the vendor that many of us use for our OPAC services at our libraries has managed to get not one, but two egregious typos in an article about the First Lady… or should I say the Fist Lady? Maybe they’ve just got a Democract doing data entry? As my friend Michael says “there are no such things as hunting accidents” in Vermont, does anyone really accidentally type “pubic library”? Apparently the “fist lady” appelation is not that tough to come by, neither is “pubic library“.
” I think everybody loves Barbara, and still loves Barbara Bush. She was a terrific fist lady”
“Offering her own philosophy on living, the woman who was called Fist Lady to the World leads readers on a path to confidence, education, maturity, and more.”
“Lucy Hayes was the first Fist Lady to have graduated from college.” [thanks owen]
“Offering her own philosophy on living, the woman who was called Fist Lady to the World leads readers on a path to confidence, education, maturity, and more.”
“Lucy Hayes was the first Fist Lady to have graduated from college.” [thanks owen]
Open Access explained and made plain
If you’re interested in Open Access, or perhaps you’d never heard of it before reading Jason Griffey’s paper, the Open Access blog is a great place to start learning. It’s a group blog and has one of the best content-rich “about this blog” pages as well as a helpful acronym-definining “about the Open Access movement” pages [from the smartie librarians at Earlham, natch].
another acronym you need to know: RFID
Another terribly useful library blog: RFID in libraries.
why open access is good for libraries
The Open Access glossary page leads to all sorts of wonderful other pages including this one: “The (Refereed) Literature-Liberation Movement” with a longer article linked at the bottom “For Whom the Gate Tolls? How and Why to Free the Refereed Research Literature
Online Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving, Now” The implications for libraries and librarians are obvious. Can anyone say “serials crisis”?
Online Through Author/Institution Self-Archiving, Now” The implications for libraries and librarians are obvious. Can anyone say “serials crisis”?