The Libraries and Librarians Flickr group, which populates the front page of this weblog, now has over 750 members and 4000 photos. And group subscriptions can be exported in OPML format from the Recent Groups page. Update: A few libraries using del.icio.us. And the ALA is on flickr.
There is still no easy way to manage a library of references on a personal or institutional site. Librarians who want to put up a list of institutional publications, or researchers who want to share references are limited by existing software limitations, privacy concerns, or technical road blocks. This problem has been mitigated by a [...]
Wired 14.07: START Your Blog Blows, and Here’s Why 1. You aren’t kamikaze enough to risk your career by revealing the soul-crushing absurdity of your job. 2. You aren’t sufficiently vain or presumptuous to declare yourself a hot twentysomething female (even if it’s true). 3. You lack a diagnosed sleep disorder, minor substance abuse problem, [...]
In yet another crowded ballroom, the men (and woman) of LITA prognosticated on the future of libraries and technology. Walt Crawford moderated the panel and spoke in absentia for Sarah Houghton. Her trends were: Returning power to content owners An OCLC ILS with RedLightGreen as the front-end Outreach online Karen Schneider listed four: Faceted Navigation, [...]
This oversubscribed session (I sat on the floor, as did many others) featured Stephen Abram of Sirsi/Dynix/SLA president and Joe Janes of the University of Washington debating the future of search, moderated by LJ columnist Roy Tennant. Abram asked a pointed question, which decided the debate early, “Were libraries ever about search? Search was rarely [...]
Ben Bunnell, Manager of Google Book Search and author of an upcoming Last Byte column in the July NetConnect (no link yet), described how Google cofounders Larry Page and Marissa Mayer originally conceived of the book scanning project while they were in graduate school at Stanford. Using a metronome, they estimated that a 300 page [...]
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Jay Datema has an MBA from Binghamton University (2007), a Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (1999), and a BA in Literature from Wheaton College (1995).
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Weinberger, David. Everything is miscellaneous : the power of the new digital disorder. New York: Times Books, 2007.
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“Computer science programs should be more like MFA programs, which require students to study great works, share work, and revise constantly.”
– Dreaming in Code review
25 January 2007
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