Just a quick post to mention several changes I’ve made to this blog overnight. I’ve added a link to a tag cloud in the sidebar. I’ve also added new custom icons in the sidebar for “RSS Subscribe” and “Email Subscribe.” The “Email Subscribe” button’s link replaces the link to an external service, [...]

I was glad to see an announcement that Ex Libris has added social web features into its latest release for Aleph 500, its integrated library system. (Seen via Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog.) I wish that this was something Endeavor Information Systems and other library systems vendors in the research and academic library marketplace were [...]

From the You’re It! blog comes an interesting post that describes the use of tags to help researchers find related papers in institutional repositories. Investigating the usefulness of tags in this way is important, I think.

Thanks to a comment from Jay Datema (newly appointed Technology Editor for Library Journal who oversees the LJ Techblog) on my post regarding the marginalization of comments in the blogosphere, I found a nifty new service (well, new to me, anyway) called coComment. coComment provides the ability for you to track and view your [...]

Karen Schneider’s post on the ALA Techsource blog, “How OPACs Suck, Part 1: Relevance Rank (Or the Lack of It),” is a rant by a librarian who either presents a foregone conclusion due to incomplete research, or one who reaches a conclusion out of misunderstanding. Unfortunately such rants are fairly common. Karen complains [...]

I’ve been following the development of a new technology called COinS with a lot of interest. Lorcan Dempsey wrote about it last week on his blog and used that post to announce the availability of COinS functionality in Open WorldCat. Great news! If you use the Firefox web browser and have installed [...]

Recently I decided to explore E-LIS, an independent, international, open access repository of information (articles, papers, presentations, syllabi, etc.) relating to library and information science, with the goal of depositing some of my material there. One of the first things I wished to deposit was articles I had written for the journal, Serials Review, [...]

Last night on the way home from work, I got a call from Michele telling me that when she was leaving the grocery store with the kids, Brinley hurt her foot. Turns out that Keegan accidentally ran over her foot with the full grocery cart when she suddenly stopped in front of him on [...]

This is the last post of the evening, I swear. I have made clear my problems with the American Library Association (ALA) in the past, and these problems stem from what I have seen from the inside, having actively participated in ALA and attended many, many ALA conferences over the years. Recently ALA [...]

Something that I’ve noticed for quite a while, and given some thought to, is that blog comments seem to be the most marginalized element of the blogosphere. This, in spite of the fact that in many cases, a comment may be even more useful or valuable than the original posting on which it is [...]