Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
While I was at Pitt, an ARL school, I got a bit spoiled for database access. One thing I've especially missed since is the broad access to all the LIS databases I could want. As both an ARL member and the home of an MLIS program, Pitt has twice as ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Barely a night had passed after I wrote a post criticizing James Taranto's attack on Judith Flint and librarians in general, which hinged on the role of search warrants and the principle of privacy, before I discovered the next morning a post on Boing Boing pointing toward a panel video ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
A few days ago, my mother sent me an article about a librarian in Vermont who drew some attention when police sought to seize the computers from the public library where she works and she required a court order first. This seemed pretty basic to me. As a commenter of ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
A few months ago I had occasion to compare the way different libraries catalog the same book and so was opening from WorldCat some records in catalogs I'd probably never otherwise mess with. One of those catalogs was that of Kansas State University. Examining the holdings record for the book, ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
I noted earlier that I was getting better acquainted with some print biographical resources on the shelves at Cornette. There I only took the time and space for Who Was Who and the Dictionary of American Biography. Here I want to take a look at a couple of comparable works, ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
I had some familiarity with print biographical resources while at Pitt but perhaps not intimately or in profound depth. Even what I did know has grown a little rusty as time has passed while my attention was elsewhere. So I'm glad for the recent occasion to work with them a ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
While I was in library school at Pitt, I was pretty non-committal about what sort of library I was headed for after finishing the degree. A number of people I knew were particularly intent on a public library or an academic library, and a few were even specifically inclined to ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
I mentioned earlier I've been encountering some unresponsiveness from Del.icio.us customer support with resolving some broken RSS feeds. It seems worth clarifying the details with that. As I noted, I bookmark stuff with it constantly and have thousands of items there now. I've long had people in my Del.icio.us network, ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
I've been a huge user and proponent of Del.icio.us for about two years now. I've got over 5,000 bookmarks there with a proportionately vast number of tags. I've given a lot of thought to its benefits and enthusiastically sung its praises to multiple audiences of friends and colleagues in library ...
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