wiki stuff
I’ve been playing around with wiki software lately. Yes, I know, that’s very trendy these days, but beyond all that, I have to say they are not as intuitive as they should be.I’ve been...
View ArticleJust say "no" to library 2.0
It’s been a while—but I’m dusting this thing off.I really have to disagree with M Stephens on a recent post about librarian attitudes. His premise is that librarians tend to think negatively toward new...
View ArticleMySpace is lame, now
There is a Dr Seuss story about people who have stars on their chest, they had become special, the elites, and then there was everyone else, the masses. The masses eventual found a way to get stars too...
View ArticleOn Being Platform Agnostic
Don’t worry Kiera-- you’ll get your date with Oscar eventually.Just to back up for a minute on MySpace. My interest in the site has been waning, however then I attended a seminar hosted by an Atlanta...
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Using Students to Promote the Library
One of my brothers is halfway through police academy training--- hopefully he’ll give me the “secret word” you can tell cops when they pull you over… in Atlanta you have to drive 80 mph just to keep up...
View ArticleThe Inevitable Gen X Coup
I guess it is really trendy to bash ALA these days. I could not resist either.I wrote that over the Thanksgiving weekend. The original tile was:“The Inevitable Coup: taking over the library profession...
View Articlemore on myspace, social networks and academic libraries
I’m very into the mobile internet—but the other day I was in the bathroom and could hear a guy typing on his laptop in one of the stalls. Maybe GT students are just hardcore like that?I have been...
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“An Experiment of Unusual Partnerships”
The latest experiment at the Georgia Tech Library:The Resource Center, aka: "The Cage"Nothing revolutionary here, but it’s kind of cool. I’ve read about similar efforts at Marquette. UGA has also...
View ArticleIntuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model
I’ve been trying to merge “the library” with student blogs for nearly two years now. It’s been a long evolution, but I think I found the most efficient manner given the current technologies available.A...
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Music in the Library
For the next 3-4 Tuesdays, a freshman student violinist will play in the rotunda from 11-noon. Students tell us that they want to see (and in this case "hear") creative expressions by fellow students.A...
View ArticleShow me the.....
I really hate pretentious library schools that feel the need to gloat about how great their rankings are on public listservs… but I do like money and that’s the topic today.I was fortunate to...
View ArticleGood Old Gorman!
When will Michael Gorman stop embarrassing us? Seriously, I think he's set us back 20 years!
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OMG! We should IM!
So it seems that IM has recently become the hot topic. I can’t wait until three years from now when librarians ‘discover’ ipods and start talking about new ways to reach students through mobile...
View ArticleLacrosse & Podcasting
Ok, so the hot topic this week is Microsoft’s Academic Search product. I’m sure everyone will be eager to compare it with Google Scholar and those library databases that we spend millions of dollars...
View ArticleNext Gen
I am really starting to dislike the Next Gen label. Actually I’m not really sure that I can define it, but that doesn’t stop be from babbling on about the...
View ArticleWhat does SGA have to say about YOUR Library?
Last week the campus was littered with SGA candidate posters—so I took the opportunity to email all of them a question.Hello,I read through your info in the Technique (student newspaper) and on your...
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Dancing in Savannah
Heading to Savannah for the Off-Campus Library Services Conference. Something odd in the program: dancing!We’ll see how that works out. I wonder if there was actually a demand for this in past...
View ArticleFun with Library Catalogs!
There is a lot of thoughtful analysis regarding library catalogs: Cornell, UC, and the ACRL Blog.All I have to offer are these two video clips:Why don’t patrons use the library catalog?Library Catalog...
View ArticlePerhaps my last comments ever on Facebook
I’m sick—which only happens about once a year, but I wanted to quickly post a comment on this article that will be hitting your mailbox soon: Do You Facebook?My stance toward online social networks has...
View Articleacademic library 2.0
Camus was once asked about being an existentialist and he claimed that he wasn’t—that he was a humanist. That’s sort of how I feel about the ‘library 2.0’ movement. Granted, several of my ideas,...
View ArticleIn defense of social networks
This is a comment I made on Paul’s blog regarding Thoughts on privacy and libraries and social networks This sort of sums up my feelings on the topic.The big issue I have is the librarian mentality to...
View ArticleRepublican Librarians Unite!
So somehow I give off the Republican vibe? Maybe I should try to get on Fox News or the Colbert Report? I’m flattered that my angsty ramblings are considered “required reading” but seriously, I am much...
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Camtasia & Ipods - early thoughts: they won’t work together
I finally had a chance to experiment with screencasting. One of my summer projects is to generate some videos for engineering students—more on that in the coming weeks.Paul and I shared enthusiasm...
View Articleinflation
Georgia Tech = $1.40 for a 20 oz bottle of coke, seriously? That is almost as bad as Elsevier dropping their shared consortium deal...
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all good things must come to an end
They say to ‘quit while you’re ahead’—so it’s time. Alt-Ref has had a good run. By some estimates I have 8 subscribers, by others over 120.Regardless, I am moving on. That’s right, a new blog: The...
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