What You’ll Find in My Twitter Stream
Earlier this month I found myself apologizing for some errant tweets that ended up in my Twitter stream ((The problem turned out to be a forgotten automatic ...
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Libraries as Provisioner, Quartermaster, and Curator
Yesterday I heard Catherine Murray-Rust give a keynote at the Georgia Knowledge Repository workshop. She used the phrase, and I think I transcribed this cor...
ALA Virtual Conference Includes Talk on Open Source in Libraries
ALA has its "Virtual Conference" coming up on July 18th and 19th. It is two days of at-your-desktop talks on some of the most interesting topics in librarie...
Kids Birthday Parties in Libraries?
Do public libraries host birthday parties for children as part of their programming? I was with my son at a party for one of his friends a local bouncy infl...
My ALA Anaheim 2012 Schedule
It is that time of year again where representatives from the library profession all gather for the annual Annual Library Association meeting. This year it i...
Unglue.It – a service to crowdsource book licensing fees – launches
You could say "this is a service to watch" but that would be missing the point. Yesterday the 'Unglue.It' service launched as a way to crowdsource the fundi...
WorldCat May Become Available as Library Linked Data under ODC-BY
On the second day of the OCLC Global Council meeting [agenda PDF] there was a presentation by Robin Murray (VP, OCLC Global Product Management) and Jim Micha...
But Is It a Library? – Reflections on ‘Little Free Libraries’
[caption id="flickr" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Little Free Library, near Cafe Zoma by Jeremy Cusker, on Flickr"][/caption]There are these place...
Thursday Threads: Developer Genders, Facebook Release Engineering, Alcohol Among Technologists
Why aren’t there more women in technology? Hmm, let’s see if Twitter can help us find out.
Thursday Threads: Open Source Advocates Twitch at Blackboard’s Strategy and Effect of Copyright/DRM on Access
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Thursday Threads: Research Works Act, Amazon Kindle Give and Take, OCLC’s Website for Small Libraries
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Thursday Threads: Learn to Code in 2012, Issues with Apple’s iBooks Author, SOPA/PIPA Are Dead
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