What can you do different?

Question:
What can you do different?

Thoughts:
Listen. That's the winds of change breaking into your car and driving it off as you wonder why you never took the bus to work.

Source:
LibLime | The leader in open-source solutions for libraries: "Severe budget cuts. Increased demand for services. Lack of adequate staffing. Sound familiar? At LibLime, we realize that your library is facing these challenges--and I believe we can help. We're not just your average library vendor in a highly competitive and heavily saturated market. We're different, our products are different and our business model is different."

Tags: iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

What is in my control?

Question:
What is in my control?

Thoughts:
More than you think.
How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP: "How to assign a drive letter
To assign a drive letter to a drive, a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:
1. Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.

Note If you do not see Performance and Maintenance, go to step 3. Performance and Maintenance appears in Control Panel only if you use Category view. If you use Classic view, Performance and Maintenance does not appear.
3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane.
4. Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
5. Click Add.
6. Click Assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, and then either accept the default drive letter or click the drive letter that you want to use.
7. Click OK."

When you wake up are you breathing in or out?

Question:
When you wake up are you breathing in or out?

Thoughts:
Sometimes, I'm nt breathing.
A rising star even Microsoft can't snuff out | csmonitor.com: "People can replace nearly all the major programs on a Windows PC with 'safer, less expensive open-source alternatives,' says Scott Granneman, author of the new book 'Don't Click on the Blue E!' - a kind of Firefox for dummies. Free e-mail programs like Mozilla's Thunderbird can be used instead of Microsoft Outlook Express. Open-source Apache already dominates the market for Web servers. Even the Windows operating system itself can be swapped for an open-source alternative called Linux."

Why should there be a diversity of computer labs on a campus?

Question:
Why should there be a diversity of computer labs on a campus?

Thoughts:
Heck yeah there should.
CLC Linux - Introduction to Linux Computing at Penn State: "Penn State has deployed Linux in select labs on campus to give students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to work on an operating system that is quickly being adopted into business, industry, science, education, and government."

Tags: linux, iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

Do, Why, How OPACs Suck?

Question:
Do, Why, How OPACs Suck?

Thoughts:
Read this.
OPACs suck: "How OPACs Suck, Part 1: Relevance Rank (Or the Lack of It)Posted on 03/13/2006 at 12:28:16 PM by Karen G. Schneider

I recently wrote about NCSU adding a search engine to its online catalog. But after talking to librarians who asked me, “So what did they get for doing that?” I realized I need to back-pedal and explain how a search engine makes an online catalog easier to use (or, as Andrew Pace puts it, 'Why OPACs Suck')."

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What is technolibertarianism?

Question:
What is technolibertarianism?

Thoughts:
I have no idea.

Source:
About the blog and LJP: "Because of some bad experiences on LISNews I was initially planning not to allow reader comments on this blog. I have a sense, and we will see if this turns out to be true, that heavy readers of blogs are a different group than the group who subscribed to and appreciated Library Juice, so I’m not sure if it’s the audience I’m used to that will be reading and commenting here. I’m allowing comments in the hopes that former Library Juice readers will find this blog and participate. Denizens of the internet, even now that the internet has become so ubiquitous, still skew (on average) in the direction of technolibertarianism, and Library Juice decidedly does not. So, we’ll see how it goes."

Tags: iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

What are you doing?

Question:
What are you doing to re-invent yourself?

Answer:
You're not doing enough. Pay attention though and you may learn something from this genius.

Source:
Library Juice » Information Literacy versus “The Librarian’s Stamp of Approval”: "Now I think the creative work ahead is to find ways to make the librarian’s real role as an educator and an orientor to information, with the consciousness that “relevance is relative,” more present in the web environment. I welcome with enthusiasm projects that work in that direction."

Tags: iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

Why bother with an OPAC anymore?

Question:
Why bother with an OPAC anymore?

Answer:
While I don't agree and do think most (read most- not all) OPACs are doomed. This author has some points.

Source:
blyberg.net » Why bother: the impact of social OPACs: "First, I want to be clear that I don’t think we are doomed if we choose not to implement social software in our OPACs. Libraries will not cease to function if we don’t address the shortcomings of our online catalogs. It is very clear to me, however, that the OPAC is an empty vessel, waiting to be filled. Since their inception, OPACs have done the job intended by usurping the card catalog with stoic efficiency. Let’s be honest, though and admit that something special slipped out into the ether when those large, cumbersome drawers were toted out and replaced by luminescent portal we now know as the catalog station. That’s just the way it goes."

Tags: iblee, libraries_2.0, Knowledge literacy, librarians,

Are you credible?

Question:
Are you credible?

Source:
Credibility Commons: "The Credibility Commons is an experimental environment enabling individuals the opportunity to try out different approaches to improving access to credible information on the World Wide Web. Tools will be provided to researchers as well as the public, allowing them to try out search strategies, collections and other approaches to improving access to credible information. The Commons can be viewed as a collaborative space in which to share ideas, data sets, results and innovations. This project is sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation who is deeply invested in improving access to credible information on the World Wide Web."