Monthly Archives: April 2007

Good Day

By Iris | Published: Monday, April 30th, 2007
Today was ARLD Day here in Minnesota. I would write more than “it was awesome,” but I’m too tired and have too much other stuff to do. But I promise, I’ll write more than “it was awesome” as soon as possible. All I’ll say now is: developer of recommender systems + keynote = awesome. Think [...]
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Domestic Days

By Iris | Published: Sunday, April 29th, 2007
This has been my first full weekend at home in over a month, so my list of household tasks was daunting, to say the least. But partially thanks to fine weather, partially thanks to a cat who really didn’t want me to sleep in (and even decided to rouse me two hours earlier than I [...]
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Clammering in the Hallways

By Iris | Published: Friday, April 27th, 2007
Scott McLemee, with the help of Steven Bell, declared quite some time ago that there’s too much silence in the stacks.* Apparently he couldn’t find blogs that were specifically “maintained by academic librarians” and focused specifically on issues important to academic librarianship. Hi, I’m Iris, and I’m an academic librarian. Actually, there were a couple [...]
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Spam 2.0

By Iris | Published: Friday, April 27th, 2007
I’m having an easily-annoyed afternoon, so take this with a salt shaker of salt, but I’m just sayin… Is it really a good idea to syndicate content from everything you do online to everything else you do online? If your photos get automatically included in your blog’s feed, and you up load a whole boatload [...]
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The Future of Our Catalog

By Iris | Published: Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
I spent all day today at a school two hours northwest of my school meeting with a bunch of librarians of all kinds (including library directors) who work at private colleges in Minnesota. On the agenda: contemplating the future of our catalogs. Four groups of librarians presented their visions of what this future might look [...]
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