I was excited to find out that some important publications from UIUC GSLIS are now digitized and available in UIUC’s institutional repository, IDEALS. These include:
Allerton Park Institute Proceedings(1954-1997)
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1963-1995)
Occasional Papers (1949-2004)
These are highly important publications in terms of recent library history, and it is great that they are [...]

I was excited to finally get a peek at the University of Chicago Library’s experimental new search interface for their catalog, which they’ve named Lens.  Basically it’s a souped up or customized version of Aquabrowser.  I have only just started to poke through it but visually and functionally, it looks great.  Those who attend Code4Lib [...]

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 [...]

These are my links for April 6th through April 16th:

LIBRA: LIBrary Reports and Announcements - An occasional PDF publication of The University of Chicago Library. I like to read this whenever a new issue is published because it helps me keep informed about what’s happening at Chicago, a place where I worked for several [...]

The latest issue (Spring 2007) of LIBRA: LIBrary Reports and Announcements, is now available. LIBRA is a publication of The University of Chicago Library. I like to read each issue because that helps me keep informed about what’s going on at the place where I spent my formative years as a librarian. [...]

I laughed ’til I cried the other day when I read a post on the University of Chicago Library’s feedback blog, Maroon Opinions, that had to do with a complaint about auto-flushing toilets in the Regenstein Library. I really can’t add anything more; you’ll just have to read it yourself.

The other day I ran across a newish blog published and maintained by colleagues at The University of Chicago Library. The blog in question is entitled Maroon Opinions and contains a record of suggestions made by users of the libraries at Chicago. First of all, I think this is a great way to [...]

There are some people who believe that everyone has a double, someone who looks just like him or her. Of course, I’m a skeptic. However, this theory gained a bit of validation for me when I received the latest issue of College & Research Libraries News in the mail yesterday. On the [...]

Some time ago I noted here that an acquaintence of mine had snagged an interesting job at ALA as RDA Project Manager. Yesterday I sat down and read more about RDA, which stands for Resource Description and Access. In particular I read through the RDA Prospectus, published by an international group called the [...]

Crerar Library News
I just discovered that some of my former University of Chicago Library colleagues, specifically those in the John Crerar Library, have created their own weblog, called Crerar Library News. As far as I can tell, this is the only blog in use among the libraries at the U of C, which I [...]