listserv about library typos
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libtypos-L/ now really, you know you want to know. 😉 and just in case you can’t get enough of this kind of stuff:a whole website about library catalog typos:
2908, 2006
Monthly Archives: August 2006
2808, 2006
OCLC opens up to the world..
well, at least to yahoo, google, etc. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060717-1.shtml
2508, 2006
Is Wikipedia an ‘expert’ site?
Know it all: Can Wikipedia Conquor Expertise?’ http://tinyurl.com/gckod Excerpt:On March 1st, Wikipedia, the online interactive encyclopedia, hit the million-articles mark, with an entry on Jordanhill, a railway station in suburban Glasgow. Its author, Ewan MacDonald, posted a single sentence about the station at 11 P.M., local time; over the next twenty-four hours, the entry was edited more than four hundred
0908, 2006
hello, may I help you?
Inquiring Minds at the LibraryTuesday, August 22, 2006; Page A14 What Yahoo Inc. Vice President Eckart Walther refers to as the “next generation of search” techniques [“Web Searches Go Low-Tech: You Ask, a Person Answers,” front page, Aug. 16] has been alive and well in our nation’s libraries for more than a century. Reference librarians in our public and academic
0508, 2006
behind the times, baby
behind the times, baby Friday I went to this conference where the keynote speaker (Dr. Maddeus) essentially said that all of the folks in the audience were out of the loop and if we didn’t get with the technology we were going to miss the boat (!!). Anyhow, he started out the presentation with some very over the top Bill-n-Ted