September 2011
11 posts
RT @lbraun2000: AMZ’s Kindle Fire - http://t.co/3M4oHahe
just disconnected twitter from facebook. this tweet is a test to see if I really did.
Dracula Documentary in time for Halloween... →
The first documentary to look at Bram Stoker and his legendary 1897 gothic novel, “Dracula: The Vampire and the Voivode” will be available on October 4, from Walking Shadows (distributed by Virgil…
RT @boycetrus: Thinking about libraries, content creation, #abcopen after #risg2011? How about this http://t.co/L7LhJmqH
RT @culturomics: Zoom into cultural trends with the alpha of Bookworm http://t.co/eOInxHXN #dpla #ngrams
RT @ericleasemorgan: Use & understand: A DPLA beta-sprint proposal — http://t.co/z4fTRbRl
RT @rashford The Ouroboros; or, How “Digital” and “Humanities” Will Shape Each Other in the Near Future http://t.co/C1K6cKBP
Goodreads planning to make its recommendation engine information accessible through its API http://t.co/199kDvS8
“Public Libraries” Seeking Columnists →
Public Libraries (PL) is seeking to fill two columnist vacancies. The first, ‘Passing Notes,’ is a young-adult service themed column. The second, ‘The Wired Library,’ explores Web topics relevant…
RT @BrettRelander: Google Launches First Google+ APIs #traffic #leadgen http://j.mp/rktjwo
RT @_leonardsouza_: 10 Best Chrome Extensions For Web Developers » http://t.co/SAjXsqu
August 2011
10 posts
late night last minute #dpla beta sprinting in full effect-
PLA Reading Kit Sale Through August 31 →
Great Tools for Parents – Great Savings for You. Save up to 50% on kits for young readers.
Help parents foster reading at home by offering these engaging reading kits at your librayr. Each…
PLA Fellowship to Attend REFORMA →
The PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION is offering a $1,000 Fellowship to attend the REFORMA NATIONAL CONFERENCE IV (RNCIV) – Elevating Latino Library Services to a Higher Level: Juntos (Together) in…
RT @jpalfrey: Are books dead, and can authors survive? | Ewan Morrison http://t.co/tCeSfXC via @guardian
Really interesting paper from the Berkman Center. Love that the following sentence comes up in the methodology:… http://t.co/jNq3eGN
PLA Kits for Young Readers Sale →
Save up to 50% on kits for young readers. Help parents foster reading at home by offering these engaging kits at your library. Each publication below is 40% off through August 31, 2011. Combine it…
RT @BarbaraAGenco: Squirrels Do 17 Percent of the Damage to Fiber Optic Network - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic http://ow. …
RT @theanalogdivide Help us stuff the ballot box for our DLF Forum panel: http://t.co/XEQe9xC (Search for “public librarians”) Please RT!
Working on a new interaction strategy for http://goo.gl/Xk0Z8 v.2 with some great UI enhancements. Hoping it will… http://goo.gl/TZJVn
this is a pretty cool table design… http://goo.gl/6bCrm
July 2011
13 posts
RT @SanJoseInfo: #SanJose is 2nd most social city in USA. Ranking’s based on biz people connected via social networking sites. http://ow …
Register now for Turning the Page 2.0 – 3rd... →
Registration is open until today, July 27, at 5:00pm CDT, for the next session, week of Aug. 8 – week of Sept. 12, of Turning the Page 2.0. This free, six-week comprehensive advocacy training…
The Uni: a portable, open-air reading room for public space by The Uni Project @findtheuni http://kck.st/rdZt2R
Link →
PLA presents readers’ advisory webinar with Nancy Pearl on July 19
At 1 p.m. CDT on July 19, the Public Library Association (PLA) will host a webinar with Nancy Pearl, “Dive into a Good Book: Great…
Owl and mom… http://flic.kr/p/a2VfaE
Healthy, beautiful Owl August Montana-Hill was born at 2:12 PM July 10th 8lbs 4oz and 20 inches long! Pictures coming soon!
At hospital, baby on his way! Preparing for a long night…
shit, what a great response to a school district pulling this book off of the summer reading list for ‘expletives’ http://bit.ly/rmmMZM
Baby is due to be born tomorrow: Here’s hoping the little dude comes right on time!
Google+ for iPhone and iPad now waiting for Apple approval http://t.co/uwsuj12
Altair Design →
The other day I dropped by Bookbuyers in Mountain View and picked up a real gem. I got a sweet copy of ‘More Altair Design’ from 1974. The cover is pretty seductive, with swirling kaleidoscopic…
June 2011
13 posts
uh oh. i might have just fallen for a phishing scam in my gmail. crap. password change time!
Notice Anything at ALA11 Conference? →
[Click on link to listen to lunch time jazz music at New Orleans Convention Center at ALA11 while you read this post.]
My conference experience ended Monday afternoon after 3 days of thought…
RDA Change: It Don’t Come Easy →
Change don’t come easy, especially in the very structured and detailed work of creating catalog records. At “Vendor Plans for Implementing RDA” six brave souls on the panel took on the complicated…
RT @cgarfin www.youmedia.org is online, in conjunction with the MacArthur/IMLS RFP digital learning labs.
ALA Anticip…ation →
Hello, all you PLA blog enthusiasts! My name, in case you don’t feel inclined to examine my profile, is Celise Reech-Harper. I am the Youth Programming & Public Relations Coordinator for the…
RT @jdscott50: Boopsie Announces One-Click Access to OverDrive eBook Collection http://bit.ly/iO79Lq
‘the only way to control your content is to be the best provider of it’ http://bit.ly/jClGHy ambient tourism via @lankage
All About Ebooks →
At last month’s Book Expo America, Simba Information’s Michael Norris provided lots of great information about how/why/and who purchases ebooks and also who is buying print books. A couple of…
Complexity made Simple →
This is a mind map from Karen Coyle.
The mind map is a diagram of “users and what users might want to do with data” from a linked open data workshop. Readers, librarians, you don’t…
RT @griffey: Ok…iTunes Match sounds promising. Scans & ID’s your library, gives you your music in the cloud. $24.99 a year. No need to …
RT @amandafrench @CLIRDLF: Mellon funds planning grant to @CLIR/DLF and UIUC for #DPLA beta sprint effort http://bit.ly/inCIZp
Two more reasons for Library Outposts: the DPLA... →
In 2007-2008 I worked on a public library service model project called the Library Outpost.
The project anticipated the mass move from print information to electronic information that has become…
Two more reasons for Library Outposts: the DPLA and YouMedia Learning Labs http://bit.ly/mUnekD #dpla
May 2011
8 posts
Blogged about the bad and thought provoking thing that happened to @imakeshinylove http://bit.ly/lYnPL3 librarians, crafters- thoughts?
Can you realistically copyright a pictograph, even... →
I got a great book today: Pictorial Symbols, second enlarged edition, from the Pictograph Corporation, 1943 (similar to this). The images are by Rudolph Modley, a student of Otto Neurath who I…
RT @jpalfrey: Digital Public Library of America as Generative Platform (Ed Summers @librarycongress) http://bit.ly/m8Erav #dpla (Great p …