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Transportation Knowledge Network? What’s that?
Last week was National Library Week. I didn’t really celebrate. (Oddly enough, I’ve never really ever noticed anything like that on campus in my decade here. Dang… I sound old.) Andrew Krzmarzick, the Director of Community Engagement at GovLoop, started a discussion about National Transportation Knowledge Networks. It almost made me weep with joy for [...]
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Library Services
Tales of Extreme Outreach Pt. 2
In my first installment of Tales of Extreme Outreach I discussed my joining my department’s intramural soccer team. Our record has been spotty, but I’ve really enjoyed playing with the grad students and I think we’ve all had fun. Last night I split my head open a little playing a game against the Killer Wombats. [...]
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Library Services
Taking care of your users/patrons/readers/whatever.
Today I read two blog posts that made me think, “Duh! Isn’t that obvious?” But if two of the library world’s most esteemed bloggers are writing about it, then maybe not? One was David Lee King talking about Darien Library’s Extreme Customer Service (or should it be Xtreme?). The other was
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Library Services
The annoying side of copyright or why I’m annoyed with Harvard Business School.
03.30.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsPhoto source. For years I couldn’t name anything more obnoxious than the crazy frog, but I stand corrected. I’ve long thought that the DMCA was ridiculous, mostly for the broadcast implications, and that DRM was just a band-aid that irritates people and doesn’t actually prevent piracy. Well, today a student came into our library to [...]
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Library Services
Oh, the many uses of a library!
03.25.09 | Permalink | 3 CommentsDavid Lee King, one of the well established voices of “Library 2.0″, recently blogged Can a Library Be Your Office?, which looks at how libraries can lure business people and freelancers out of bookstores and coffee shops and into the library to work. This is all in response to Chris Brogan’s post about why bookstores [...]
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Library Services
British Library “loses” 9,000 books, really?
Photo source. Today the Guardian reported about the British Library misplacing/losing 9,000 books: More than 9,000 books are missing from the British Library, including Renaissance treatises on theology and alchemy, a medieval text on astronomy, first editions of 19th- and 20th-century novels, and a luxury edition of Mein Kampf produced in 1939 to celebrate Hitler’s [...]
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Library Services
Crowdsourcing for Indexing and Abstracting: Can it Work?
Dorothea Salo posed this question of FriendFeed: Crowdsourced abstracting and indexing service. The next big thing, or a really dumb pipe dream? MPOW has a contract to provide indexing and abstracts for TRIS, the main transportation database for North America. The quality of indexing and abstracting varies, because most of the people performing the work [...]
