The Other Librarian

off to work..
Originally uploaded by *Solar ikon*.
Ok I was tagged by Cindi and Amanda for the Passion Quilt Meme. I’m not a meme-ish sort of person — probably because anyone I tag usually does not end up doing the meme.
So, you are supposed to grab a photo from Flickr’s Creative Commons or other photo directory, [...]

I’ve had a tongue-in-cheek post-in-waiting for a while now that would look at traits I notice in online cultures as a way of understanding whether or not a particular service is for you or your library.    It had been percolating, percolating, percolating. . . and then I read Greg Schwartz’s post on Managing His Own Social [...]

Just by playing around with the TwitterSearch API I found a few interesting Halifax Twitterfolk.   One of them was Ben Boudreau another was Carman Pirie.  All of the sudden, my Halifax Twitwork began to expand.   It was exciting — I love discussing things with librarians from far-off places, but I really love talking to people [...]

People around town have talked about Swift, and some were invited to a feedback session on Swift. Already, comments have come out about that session, and I’m even mentioned in one of them.
First off, based on what I saw at the session, I’m going to respectfully disagree with Meredith who says:
Yes, the emails [...]

Here is the link to my presentation slides.
Here is the link to a script I devised a little while ago.   (This was not the script I used at the presentation — I was editing the presentation as I went along.)

 Just to let everyone out there know that I will be at the Computers in Libraries conference.   I’ll be presenting on Tuesday in Track D about laptop labs in libraries — mostly emphasizing the importance of social interaction over mere technology access.    I’ll be using two case studies at our libraries to demonstrate this.
I [...]

There have been a few, ahem, debates going around and I could make a post on each of them, but things have just been too much in my home life recently, so I’m going to chime in one on one.
MLS or non-MLS?
My favorite call on this issue is coming from Dorothea Salo, but there [...]

I love the idea of recommendation services like LibraryThing, Bibliophil and Books iRead. The main reason I like these services is because of their potential to identify items for me that I may never encounter on my own. You have to accept that I am a) a busy parent with little time [...]

Heather Morrison discusses what she calls an “access gap” for scholarly journals in public libraries.   She claims:
The local public library will have interlibrary loan service; however, with limited staffing looking after everything from storytime for preschoolers to special services for teens, adults, seniors, and more, not to mention buying books and running the library, the [...]

Cool staircase made out of a [personal]  library.    And another link, in case you  missed the Borges reference.
Found via BoingBoing.   God I love that blog.