Rochelle shares a few more observations about ebrary’s “opt out” policies with regards to sharing information that you decide to give them. Is this really an ALA member benefit, or is it available to anyone who goes to this URL? I know I didn’t have to log in anyplace.
Month: April 2005
google + libraries, happy at last
If you haven’t reloaded Google today, please do so. They’ve got a National Library Week logo up. This is the first year they’ve done this.
sold out @ your library, Lessig & Tweedy, Who Owns Culture?
Our very own Fiona from Blisspix got one of the sold out tickets to the NYPL Who Owns Culture shindig. Here’s what the NYTimes had to say about the event. Note the very very high profile of the library in all of this.
“What does it say about our democracy when ordinary behavior is deemed criminal?” he asked. Mr. Lessig and the moderator, Steven Johnson, a contributing editor at Wired, made much of the fact that the discussion was taking place in a library, where much of the Western cultural canon is available free.
hi – 10apr
Hi. Happy National Library Week. Check out some free stuff. I’m going to be speaking at Marlboro College tomorrow, check out what they’re saying on their home page. From there it’s down to the New Jersey Library Association Conference and then back up to visit my friend Sharyn before heading to the Edible Books Festival in Albany with my Mom next weekend. My last day at work was yesterday and went pretty well. I took a few vacation hours and left early to catch some sun and a matinee of Sin City [great, but very violent]. I’ll continue volunteering at the library once a month doing book delivery, but they’re on their own for outreach and lunchtime reference. My tech instruction job starts May 1st give or take, I’ll write more about it when I have a signed contract in-hand.
Krug: keys to usability
Apropos of looking at ebrary last night comes a post about a talk given by Steve Krug, writer of one of my favorite web books about usability: Don’t Make Me Think. In a nutshell, clarity [of purpose, of design, of color] is the key to usability. Read more about what he said over at Librarian Way.