So, some of us on twitter have been talking about images and metadata (you know, one of my fave topics). Anyhow, I realized I was running out of room on twitter, so I thought maybe a blog post was in order. ;-D By the way, I do have a chapter within Semantic Web Technologies and Social Search for Librarians, which
Some really interesting thoughts in this article and I suggest you read the entire article but to summarize, extraordinary bosses: see the entire organization (no internal fighting) of a community — not just workers ( e.g., cogs in the machine) and as “peers not children” delegate and do not micromanage (“They push decision making downward, allowing teams form their own
I’ve been working alot on these water themed paintings and wall hangings. They are mixed media, acrylic (very sheer, layered over paper, and net)…< This one is titled, postcards from the deep. Like many of my paintings, this is not exactly what I had in mind when I started this one. It was meant to be the cornerstone of the
Ok, this sounds cool, tho a little hard to say what the quality control was like… but it is a big data set… . “This is Big Data for books,” said David Weinberger, co-director of Harvard’s Library Lab. “There might be 100 different attributes for a single object.” At a one-day test run with 15 hackers working with information on 600,000
A handy and now free tool that you can use to read your favorite content (like content divergent) offline… Read it later has been renamed “pocket” and is now free.http://getpocket.com/very useful little app you can use to save any web page to read later…Once saved to Pocket, the list of content is visible on any device — phone, tablet or computer.
Some interesting thoughts sprinkled throughout the interview portion… ———-OCLC now serves 72,035 libraries in 170 countries, with more than 260 million records—up from 39 million records in 1998. Its businesses have shifted radically, with an increasing proportion of its revenues derived from the library automation business rather than metadata services. Jordan’s tenure has not been without controversy. Some in the
—————- Unable to attend another conference because you’re understaffed? Are you miles (and miles) away from another academic library? Do you count downloading apps to your smartphone as professional development? Academic Librarians in small and rural environments face unique challenges in gaining access to formal and informal continuing education, networking, and professional development opportunities. If you are a credentialed academic
On April 25, I will be doing a workshop for the Admin Professionals Conference – my topic is Social Media 4 Success. We will be looking at using social media effectively as a professional and digital literacy. Here is the workshop details:Social Media 4 Success Did you know that Social Media is being considered a digital age job skillrequirement? Learn what
The Technical Services Interest Group is seeking catalogers from public, academic, and special libraries to participate in the Cataloging Roundtable at COMO 2012 (October 3-5, 2012 in Macon). The purpose of the Cataloging Roundtable is to discuss the best and latest developments in cataloging and bibliographic control, as well as, bring together all those interested in cataloging and classification. If
This white paper written by Virginia Feher and I started out as a conversation about the changes brought about by automation within the UGA Libraries. Over the years, I have documented some of the changes in automation (including 5 migrations/conversions of the ILS – Library catalog!) through discussions with colleagues within the Libraries and outside. This article not only provides