I just facilitated our library's participation in WebJunction's online conference, Marking Sense of Social Software in the Library. [I'm thinking the information will be available, asynchronously, from WebJunction. When/if I find it, I'll post it here.] I was thrilled to have around 20 staff and faculty members attend. It's so exciting that [...]

The somewhat bedraggled systems department here just suffered another loss. Tim, who's been the library's systems administrator for many years - he actually started here as a student, has had an offer he can't refuse from *gasp* the private sector- hold your boos. Tim (who's name I always mistype as Time which seems [...]

So, I'm sure everyone out there has heard the news of the latest Google Print lawsuit. Now authors are getting in on the litigation action. Which is interesting and, make no mistake, Google is enjoying hella publicity from all this - they release the plans and reap the PR rewards, even before page [...]

Kudos to MIT Library for two reasons 1. bloggery goodness and 2. proving that even stuffy New England Colleges need fun programy outreach. It adds to an important sense of community and shows students you're accessible. Way to go!

Tara Calishain posted about a google unsafe search which runs a query with filtering turned on and turned off and then returns the difference. So you can see what is being filtered as 'unsafe'. Pretty neat.
But, even more interesting to me is that any visitor can change the page's banner. You choose [...]

I hadn't thought of it, but Jill makes an awesome point. With gas prices so ridiculous at worst and unpredicatable at best, people are going to avoid driving when they can. (aside: Is this really going to happen? Americans are SO in love with their cars.) In the face of this [...]

All prayers and wishes to the museums, archives, and libraries affected by the hurricane. I can't begin to imagine how the losses, large and small, will emerge in the coming days. Jobs, collections, facilities… I wonder if there could be a program established for librarians in other parts of the country to travel [...]