A new Kindle!

I want one…or at least an old version when they clearance out. Apparently Amazon is releasing a new version of the Kindle next year. The article that I linked to said there are some competitor products coming out soon as well. Hmm..Do you think they will all be $360? I could buy a whole lot [...]

For all the book voyeurs out there…

I get quite a few hits on the post “It’s like I run a book rescue” I wrote last year. I guess people enjoy seeing bookshelves. I understand appeal; I love looking at what people have on their shelves. Never judging, of course, because I have some truly atrocious books on my own shelf. For [...]

Button Metadata

So tonight I was uploading items to my OMEKA collection and getting stumped on the metadata. All my buttons have union labels on them and I was unsure about putting them in the description field. The cataloger in me said “Do it” but the real person in me said “So what?” My inner cataloger was [...]

Google strikes again!

On Thursday it was announced that Google reached a deal with the International Children’s Digital Library that will allow the sharing of both Google and ICDL’s public domain children’s book titles. These titles will be available through Google Book Search and ICDL. The press release sounds like it could increase ICDL’s collection by thousands of [...]

What you see is what you get

I received American Libraries yesterday and today I decided to read it. I’m really bad about reading magazine because I get so many. Seriously. Like at least 10 subscriptions. I get a little overwhelmed and then don’t read them. Anyway, I enjoyed this issue of AL. and I learned that it’s now open access! Now [...]

She is a part of history

I took my baby to vote with me this morning and while we were standing in line, a man said “Well, she’s making history.” Phoebe, of course, was oblivious, she just wanted a cookie. But that man was right. I can not believe that today I got to vote for someone so wonderful and inspirational [...]

Metadata Reference Guide and genre talk

Reader’s Advisory is keeping me busy reading books outside my comfort zone. Romance-check. Mystery-check. Western-check. Although for my western book I chose All the Pretty Horses since I’ve never read Cormac McCarthy. Warning-All the Pretty Horses is NOT a good book to speed read. Take a couple weeks to read it, not two days. We’re [...]

Death of the expert. Or was it demise?

This semester I am taking readers’ advisory in addition to digital collections. The other day in class we were talking about reader reviews on Amazon and their usefulness. Another girl was in agreement with me and our professor mused something about amazon reviews being part of the death of the expert. or demise. It was [...]

Other losses

I meant to post this last week but felt funny about it. I’ll explain why in a minute…
I was an anthropology/sociology major as an undergraduate at Arkansas. The Anth part of the degree required that I take archeology one semester. It was surprisingly fun searching for tiny fossils (“or is it a rock?”) at the [...]

YouTube

Many things can be said about YouTube. It’s entertaining. It’s a great social networking tool. It’s enormous and constantly updated. I no longer need to bother watching morning television because if there’s a good fight on the View it’ll be on YouTube in no time. But it can be messy and hard to navigate. It’s [...]