Bibliodox: my paradox of personal interests.: 2/12/06

2.22.2006

What is to come?

Question:
Are libraries and librarians relevant? Are libraries needed? Are libraries outdated? Are libraries old-fashioned? Are libraries necessary? Are libraries obsolete? Are libraries dead? Are libraries good for anything anymore?

Summary:
Yes, yes they are. Not because I have vested interest in seeing my profession continue (while that's not totally irrelevant) but because the library profession must become the transcendent bridge between old world information and new world information. I am a blended librarian as much as I am a transcendent-information-professional. Transcendent means: to cross what seems to be a limitless chasm.

Quotes:
Katz has this to say: "The Reference desk ...[read library]... in it's present form no longer is important. Granted a central point is needed to answer directional queries, as well as short reference questions, but beyond that the old ...[library]... will be modified into an electronic data center ...[or an information collaboration center]..."
ISBN 0070342776

Bell and Shank say this:
LearningTimes Network: Library Online Community: "The Blended Librarian: A Manifesto for Redefining the Role of the Academic Librarian for 21st Century Higher Education "

What are the ways?

Question:
What are ways that we integrate student learning using various technologies while integrating/incorporating the libraries resources?

Answer:
Tools that capture content; librarians that ride along virtually adding resources to the subject matter; fusing multiple methods of content into a coherent, easy-to-use electronic packaging.

Quote:
"Mightier Than the Pen Alone"
"...computerized system enables students to view course lectures alongside their own notes..."

2.20.2006

Can you beat the averages?

Question:
You're a library. You do things the way everyone else does them? What happens? Can you beat the averages?

Anwswer:
This happnes, and I quote Paul Graham again,

Beating the Averages: "The average big company grows at about ten percent a year. So if you're running a big company and you do everything the way the average big company does it, you can expect to do as well as the average big company-- that is, to grow about ten percent a year."

What is a good way to understand things?

Question:
What is a good way to understand things?

Answer:
Question, write, question write, talk, question write and talk.

Quote:
The Roots of Lisp: "In 1960, John McCarthy published a remarkable paper in which he did for programming something like what Euclid did for geometry. He showed how, given a handful of simple operators and a notation for functions, you can build a whole programming language. He called this language Lisp, for 'List Processing,' because one of his key ideas was to use a simple data structure called a list for both code and data."

2.19.2006

ACM Crossroads: Issue 12.3/ 2006

ACM Crossroads: "ACM Crossroads
The Student Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery"

Question:
What's a great interview meaning what are great questions to ask and great responses to get?

Answer:
Read the ACM Crossroads: Issue 12.3/ 2006. "The future of programming: An interview with Paul Graham."

2.18.2006

O'Reilly Radar

Question:
How do you monitor/ track the pulse of change?

Answer:
I would bet everyone has their own system of information-amalgamation and processing. But, could the best way be to center it around a set of guidelines that you match to your needs, desires, interests, and relevancy to what you want out of life?

O'Reilly sources/ writer/ people who link to them
O'Reilly Radar: "CampfirePermalink
By marc on February 15, 2006

"Our friends at 37signals just launched Campfire, their latest product (following on Basecamp and Backpack). I've been testing this product"

Who's bubblin'?

Question:
How do you know when something is true?

Answer:
Sometimes, someone, somewhere in some way says what you're thinking -it is possible to know things in another person's mind. Other we would never really be able to communicate and we can.

Information Takes Over » Blog Archive » Library 2.0 bubbling away: "Perhaps there really is more to do in our libraries than we had thought, and the fear of being left behind has kick started our desire to make everything better. Reading through Walt Crawford’s cites and insights shows a myriad of good ideas spread all over the library, but tagged with the same Library 2.0 ticket.

And now, having just read David King discussing the confrontational aspects of Library 2.0 we begin to see why this reaction might be. That same fear that galvanises some of us, is battening down the hatches in others."

2.16.2006

What are you reading?

1. Point & Click Openoffice.Org
ISBN:
0131879928

2. Openoffice.Org 2, Firefox and Thunderbird with CDROM
ISBN:
0672328089

3. Blog On: Building Online Communities with Web Logs
ISBN:
0072227125

4. 501+ Great Interview Questions for Employers and the Best Answers for Prospective Employees
ISBN:
0910627509

5. Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software
ISBN:
0262062461

6. Lincoln on Leadership
ISBN:
0446394599

7. The Threefold Lotus Sutra
ISBN:
4333002087

8. Leadership can be taught
ISBN:
1591393094

9. The Inner Art of Vegetarianism
ISBN:
1930051255

10. Web Design in a Nutshell
ISBN:
0596001967

11. Buddhism without beliefs
ISBN:
1573226564

Is "The Myth of the Paperless Office" true?

Question:
Is "The Myth of the Paperless Office" true? This was wrote four years ago, is it still applicable?

Book:
"The Myth of the Paperless Office"

How do you do "it"?

Question:
How do you do "it"?

Quote:
"5 Suggestions for Upgrading to Library 2.0
(or Some Easy Steps to Get Started...Really)"

What is the way we work?

Question:
Are people still thinking about the paperless office? What is the way we work?

Answer:
Yes, yes they are.

What's tame these days?

Question:
What's tame these days? Who should I read if I think about information, access to information and like thinking about information & libraries?

Summary:
You should read people like this; I hope to discover more of them.

Quote:
Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: "Not Library 2.0 Part III

Via Michael Sauers:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/99868083/
"With this and these two examples so far (and I'm sure there are many more) that point to barriers created by librarians when, for example, across the pond, the word is CONVERGENCE.
Let me know if more pics like this go up on flickr. Can we use a tag? 'NotLibrary2.0'?"

Good, better, best, great?

Question:
What's a good database but not a great interface?

Summary:
While Naxos seems to be interesting, the web interface needs work. Proquest is hard to beat in terms of their interface and functionality -nearly every time I use Proquest I get what I expect; that's saying a lot about databases.

Quote:
FGCU Library Services:
"Naxos Music Library: good comprehensive collection of classical music available online. Select works by composer, artist, period, year of composition, genre or instrument."

Who isn't blogging about the state of blogging?

Question:
Who isn't blogging about the state of blogging?

Quote:
Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth: "In addition to that, about 2.7 million bloggers update their blogs at least weekly."

Thoughts:
What would be interesting to see is how many bloggers blog this and more importantly, how fast.

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