The following article by David V. Forrest, M.D., appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry’s ‘Introspections’ column: the most elegant title is " The Librarians." In part: "Bank robbers go where the money is, and we bookworms and journal raccoons are found in libraries. At the New York State Psychiatric Institute, arguably the premier interdisciplinary psychiatry institute, the…
Okay, new house rule: new stuff must appear here on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I’ll do more if I can but never less often. Deal? Deal. And today’s Nifty Link comes courtesy of LRC (as so much does these days, at least to me): The Stephen’s Guide Index of Logical Fallacies, which is not the most…
I’d heard that the New Orleans Public Library was in deep trouble, more from the city’s intent to shutter it than anything that Hurricane Katrina did. I’d wanted details, though, so I went to Google news, put "New Orleans Public Library" into the search field, clicked on the patented (if not then soon, I’m sure)…
I’m sure there’s a ton of librarians and library support folks out there who’ve known all about Library Thing for week, months, now. I admit I just found out about it by meand of this testimonial from Andy’s website: ‘Judy: “Have you already found Library Thing? I think it’s pretty cool – a way to…
Factcheck.org, which is one of my five favorite research-oriented websites, has just composed a surprisingly complete timeline of what happened in the days preceding and following Katrina: Katrina: What Happened When They state right up front that it will take months to get past all the bluster and B.S., but it’s a pretty decent resource,…
Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index Believe it . . . or not.
"Google, the Naked Emperor," by Roy Tennant, from this week’s Library Journal. The upshot: Google relies on search algorithms that do some things very well and other things (say, finding brand new web pages or even finding the last entry in the web index) very poorly. Google is just not in the business of providing…
This comes courtesy of Lily Pregill, NYAM’s Special Projects Mgr.: Worth Remembering for the Google Addicted Chris Sherman, points to a new study that shows that the various generic web search engines (the big 4), have even less overlap in their results than in previous studies and that’s not much overlap. You can find his…
Here’s a bit of librarian humor that’s just too funny not to share. Sometimes a good cartoon gets the point across better than reams of text.
I’m not sure how many folks reading this have an interest in foreign libraries, but in case there are some of you out there, this is for you.The IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records is pleased to announce that a draft of "Functional Requirements for Authority Records" is now available…