At the suggestion of “Rick” (see comments on More blog changes post) I updated my publications page to make each entry autodiscoverable for Zotero and other things via the use of COinS.

I have been a little bemused by the many posts and comments on library-related blogs in the past week that mention NASIG. Great exposure, right? Right, except that most of them seem to have focused on one person’s informal writeup of one particular session that discussed the role of columnists in library journals [...]

You know how some people seem to enjoy periodically rearranging furniture in their homes? (Jeff, one of my older brothers, used to do this a lot with his bedroom. My brother Dan and I shared a room at the time, and we even let him rearrange ours once in a while just for the fun [...]

These are my links for June 6th through June 11th:

COinS Generator - “This tool will take bibliographic metadata for a citation and produce a “COinS”, i.e. a snippet of HTML that can be placed on a webpage and processed by web tools.”
Scopus - A multidisciplinary database of citations to articles in the life, health, physical, [...]

 
Wish I could try out this new “location aware”  photo service from Yahoo! called Zurfer.  It allows you to receive photos taken by others based on your location.  It won’t download to my Blackberry 8700c, however; I just tried. 

Below is a smattering of additional thoughts and comments from NASIG 2007:
Karen Schneider’s paranoia and negativity about things like Google, EPA library closings, survival of small press publishers. Her purpose as a vision speaker was to stimulate debate and thought and I think she succeeded in that. I may not agree with her [...]

Just discovered that friend Char Simser, new president of NASIG, posted her photos from the conference in Louisville last week to Flickr. Look carefully and you might see me in one of her photos! I brought my camera with me to the conference but took only a few photos; I don’t know why [...]

Last night I discovered Facebook. I know, I know, it really isn’t anything new of course, but somehow I had never taken the plunge and created an account there. I have had a profile on MySpace for a few years and because I thought the two services were two halves of the same [...]

A few people including Sarah Houghton-Jan (Librarian in Black) and Carol Ou commented on a recent post I wrote comparing OCLC to Microsoft. Roy Tennant responded to this post on the hangingtogether blog, written by former RLG - now OCLC employees. Roy also responded to Carol Ou’s idea about FRBRizing local library catalog [...]

The main reason I was able to go to NASIG this year was that Anne McKee, program officer for the Greater Western Library Alliance (apparently known as GWLA, pronounced “Gwilla”), kindly invited me to participate in a panel discussion about alternative library careers for serialists. I jumped at the chance to present with friends [...]