I’m downloading version 4.2 of DiMeMa’s contentDM Acquisition Station to match our update of the online database to the same version. It’s a sizable download and it’s taking a while. But in the mean time I notice that I got a quote in to Andy’s website. My quote is here–a story from my days as…
This past Friday beheld the start of the third National Conference over Media Reform in Memphis. Bill Moyers was one of the main speakers, and being Moyers, he let the media establishment have it point blank: Veteran journalist Bill Moyers on Friday challenged 3,000 progressive activists and communicators to take back the telling of America’s…
See, here’s the thing. The Human Genome Project is without doubt one of the most ambitious, important, and just plain brilliant ideas put forth by the science establishment ever. The guys over at the American Society for Microbiology explain why better than I can: With the help of new techniques and powerful computers, scientists have…
Two articles that are making the rounds this morning are from the NY Times ("Lock the Library! Rowdy Students are Taking Over") and the Wall Street Journal ("The Changing Role of Librarians".) I’ve put the Journal article behind the cut. I think it’s worth reading if only because it validates something I’ve observed in the…
I’m actually on vacation this week but I also turned 40 a couple of days ago. Two birthday presents stood out, when my brother and sister-in-law presented me with copies of the Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, both by Max Brooks (aka, Max, son of Mel.)…
The folks over at the Electronic Ephemera blog were kind enough to link to yesterday’s post about the closing of 6 federal libraries, so I figured I’d return the favor by linking to the niftyest Star Trek map I’ve seen online in a while: Where No Man Has Gone Before. Enjoy!
There does not appear to be a MeSH heading for "Abstinence Education." I’m not sure how I feel about this, seeing as how I seriously disagree with the need to catalog anything with that subject heading. But on the other hand, I do have to catalog something like that, so I’m conflicted. This is a…
This just came in from Gary Price by way of the ERIL-L listserv: After 4+ years Google has announced that they are stopping the Google Answersservice. This RS post:http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/11/29/google-saying-goodbye-to-google-answers/ has info and links as well as: 1) Google Answers history and the rise of Yahoo Answers 2) This is not the first time a large…
This article from Kelpie Wilson hit a particular note with me because until 2 years ago my wife worked as a reference librarian at the NYC EPA Region 2 library on Broadway. She watched for 3 years as a staff of three librarians, one media specialist and one tech services paraprofessional were relocated, outsourced or…
Disclaimer: I am posting this more to hear back from other folks who can point me to actual library journal articles on this subject than to suggest that we’re screwed, although I suppose I can do both. That said . . . I admit it: I’ve jumped on the peak oil bandwagon. Which is probably…