Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Libraries, Technology and Web 2.0 on Jun 27th, 2008
A grad school classmate of mine, Dianne Dietrich, has created an excellent set of tutorials for librarians who want to learn how to use command line. Here’s why:
If you’re a librarian, and you’re working with lots of information — and I mean, lots, like information overload lots — you need to be equipped with a […]
Posted in Collected Stories, Creative Commons Evangelism, Libraries, Publishing on Jun 13th, 2008
I just got back from a week of vacation, followed by a week of post-vacation crunch, so here’s a small assortment of things I would have blogged about sooner, but didn’t.
Paul Krugman says it better In a column titled Bits, Bands, and Books: Paying for Creativity in a Digital World, Paul Krugman describes the impact […]
Posted in Libraries on Mar 21st, 2008
I spent yesterday afternoon at the Ann Arbor District Library, attending Library Camp. I joined the group discussing how to sell Web 2.0 to our colleagues, administrators, and patrons. Overall, I was pretty proud of how the group managed not to devolve into a whine fest about how hard it is to get libraries […]
