Happy Halloween ya’ll
Although having a sinus infection/flu this week was definitely some sort of TRICK, I do hope that everyone has a hallow’s eve full of TREATS!
3110, 2008
Category Archives: Libraries
3010, 2008
Haunted Libraries of the South
a little ghostly fun http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/10/library-ghosts-southern-us/
1509, 2008
Help support GA libraries!
Cobbled together from a listserv and elsewhere: As many of you know, we have been trying for the past four years to get a car tag for Georgia Public Libraries. We need 1,000 people to sign up for one before the Department of Motor Vehicles will produce the car tag. So far, we only have 64 people signed up and
0309, 2008
The 25 most modern libraries in the world
The 25 most modern libraries in the world, organized by architecture, technology & innovation, and digital collections.
2508, 2008
Intro to Cataloging (My little overview)
I was digging around in my webspace and found this brief overview of cataloging. This was created for an introductory technical services class for the Gwinnett school medial library program. Cataloging basics View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: basics training)
0908, 2008
Does anyone use a print dictionary anymore?
When I started in my current gig, I inherited a bunch of print materials — old technical manuals, old procedures manuals, old everything (I had 3 different editions of the LC Authority User Manual!), dictionaries, printer manuals, workshop/training manuals, and more. This accumulation occurred naturally, and as staff decided they no longer needed print resources given that a more recent
0608, 2008
Professional networking & Web2.0 – Are you LinkedIn?
A little bit of promotion for a program on the UGA Campus. Enclosed below is the announcement with bio information. —————Web2.0+ and Professional Networking: Are you LinkedIn? Panel DiscussionDate: August 12, 2008Time: 2-3 p.m.SLC Room 148Free! Web2.0+ and Social networking tools have changed many aspects of our daily lives from how we share information to how we learn and how
1607, 2008
New authorities blog
Collocate and Disambiguate: Currents in authority control and authority data, a new blog on authority control. It seems to be off to a good start (and I love the name!)
1407, 2008
Build the Open Shelves Classification
Build the Open Shelves Classification Description: I hereby invite you to join the Open Shelves Classification (OSC), a free, “humble,” modern, open-source, crowd-sourced replacement for the Dewey Decimal System. —from LibraryThing. You can follow its progress or contribute to its effort here
1107, 2008
Google and Librarians — the lovelorn relationship
Well, if you haven’t heard all of the chatter and buzz, Google Librarian Central hadn’t been updated in a year (before today, that is)…and Google wasn’t at ALA leaving some librarians to call out google for punking librarians or even using librarians, while other librarians proclaimed, we weren’t surprised! While I fall more on the side of “google is a