I’ve been invited to write a few paragraphs about some cool electronic resource for the next edition of the NYAM Newsletter. And unhappily, I have a bit of a problem with that. Granted, I have the time and the talent and the motivation, but the problem persists and it’s been there for as far back…
Here’s an article written by Jeffery Beall for Library Journal (aka the general public), titled “Stop the War on Metadata.” Think of it as a counter to the news about Hampton University. (Thanks to Margaret Mauer of Kunt State for the link.) Excellent reading. Enjoy!
My article on NYAM’s Grey Lit Report has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries! (Woot for me! Woot, I say!) This will be the first library-based article I’ve ever gotten in print, and I’m really looking forward to it. More as events unfold. And second . . .…
The reputation of the reporting news agency aside, two words fit here: no kidding. (Buy the book.) I like the idea very much. It’s the execution I have doubts about. I mean, the human brain is hands down the best computer ever to see the light of day. The one thing that mechanical brains have…
As the headline said: Worldcat.org is now available (yea!) Very little to write about today, as we’re in the process of picking out shelf list cards and processing the tomes we unearthed from MLCNY last year, and there are quite a lot of them. I’m told that NYPL is taking some of them off our…
Just a couple of articles from picked from OCLC Abstracts this morning: OCLC, LIBER Exchange Bibliographic records to Support Digital Preservation Efforts Google’s Anti-social Downside Enjoy!
The good news is this: an article discussing the peer review process in Nature. The bad news is this: your tax dollars are being used to roll back the Freedom of Information Act. Granted, it’s at the research phase right now, but I find it difficult to believe they would have funded it had they…
I’m putting the finishing touches on my article for the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries’ eJournal Forum and the deadline is Monday, which means that before then I need to actually finish it, then send my proof to the other co-authors to see what needs fixing, and then over the weekend finish the…
This appeared on Eric Alterman’s blog at MSNBC today. I am reproducing it here it in its entirety: Mr. Alterman:I have been reading media and legal materials (including your piece, “Think Again: Signing the Constitution Away,” at the Center for American Progress), here, about the unitary executive and the Bush administration’s use of presidential signing…
The Morgan Library got some very spiffy coverage in the Music section of the NY Times this morning, and that’s extremely cool. But what was even cooler to me was clicking on my daily dose of LRC and finding this article on online libraries by George Giles. Giles is a libertarian (as are many who…