I’m a fan of anything that cleverly pokes fun at the current administration - but this advertisment for Lakehead University is more than just that. The URL, yaleschmale.com has no apparent agenda or affiliation and the opening page shows only a stylized George W followed by the words:

Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn’t [...]

The latest version Michael Habib’s Academic Library 2.0 Concept Model comes to me this morning by way of Jennifer. I find it one of the best and clearest explanations of why we, as librarians should care about the current online social trend. I wonder, though, how does it change when applied to public [...]

FOUND in “at the library in a Hellboy comic.”

When you’re a technology evangelist working in a field that’s at best slow to change and at worst suspiciously resistant to it; it’s easy to accuse the late majority and laggards of basing their objections on assumptions. Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users says it well:
half my battles… were about questioning assumptions… many [...]

I haven’t yet jumped on the podcasting/vidblog bandwagon - originally I thought it was because I couldn’t see a clear or immediate application for online library services. But I just ran across the idea of placeblogging as a podcasted presentation - ‘here’s a topic I can get my head around’ I thought as I [...]

I spent the last three Tuesday’s listening to some truly fantastic live music, which inspired email exchange with Alan about the state of instrumental music today:
…For several years now, I