Several times over the past year or so, I have offered up criticisms of OCLC. OCLC is a staple of the library world, especially here in the U.S., but its reach is global and it is expanding all the time. The simplest or most concise way of expressing my criticisms is to say [...]

A few weeks ago I decided to give Google Adsense a try.  I put one small piece of advertising in a widget on the lower righthand column of FML, just to see what happened.  I have a lot of ambivalence about advertising.  Have I sold my soul to…Google?  I really don’t know what to think.  [...]

Scientists Use Google Widget to Improve Image Labeling on Wired Science
The article (linked above) is quite an interesting read.  I found it interesting when I read the words “cataloging” and “metadata” — in Wired Magazine, of all places!
The system developed by scientists at UC San Diego sounds practical and promising but…The reality is that [...]

There are many things I’m still getting used to in terms of corporate vs. academic librarianship.  One of the differences is the types of information/current awareness sources that can sometimes be found in the corporate environment.  For example, I regularly read reports from Outsell, Inc. and find almost all of them very useful and instructive.  [...]

I don’t pay as much attention to blog traffic for FML as I probably should. I know there are a lot of things I could improve if I paid more attention to the various details. Instead, I tend to look for trends and broad numbers and that’s about it.
This evening I checked summary [...]

Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool » Blog Archive » Zotero and Google Tools Screencast
Oh, my. Thanks to Jay Datema for pointing out the above-mentioned blog posting from the Zotero wizards. Love it, love it, love it.
Ok, so back to reality, though. Fact #1: At my place of work, 99.9% of people [...]

Last night I watched the 20 minute introductory movie for the iPhone. Pretty interesting! (Although the presenter was, to me, a little freaky. Just personal opinion.) The amount of hype and attention given to the iPhone is overwhelming and threatens to actually turn me off of it. Nevertheless I was [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Ann Ercelawn, a dear friend and co-moderator of the SERIALST discussion list, posted a survey on that list yesterday that asked for responses to a series of questions relating to how we keep current within the LIS field. Below is the response I sent her. It’s not as detailed or complete as it [...]