Behold, an interesting LOC blog post

http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=149

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oh stop

I get so tired of trying to explain to people why I want to be a librarian. No one seems to understand that there is actually more to librarianship than "oh I love to read books too!" If you love to read books, go read them, Barnes and Nobel is probably the place for you. I also think that public librarians probably suffer a lot more of "I'm trying to find this book a friend told me about, I don't remember the title or author but it just came out a couple of years ago and it's about the lady who is a widow and lives on a farm by herself...." Maybe that's not the case, but I wish people would just realize that it's not necessarily about the books, but the information in them!

zotero to endnote

endnote seems not to care for most of the zotero templates I saved in, it would take journal article and webpage, but the other ones that I used were not imported.  I had to manually look up each address and capture it using ENW.  Honestly, if they're going to bother with this importing exporting thing, it should work all the time, not under very specific circumstances

Search Engine URL

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015051154572249430946%3Aufghgxzioz4

Scopus RSS feed

safari 3

well folks, safari 3 and the Pitt VPN work together about as well as anything else we've done.  It will pretend to log in, but just hangs.  Reverted back to Safari 2 and everything is just peachy.  Well, if the way things were previously could be considered peachy that it is

connotea

connotea is a horrid invention.  The conventions for entering an author into the field are wretched.  This program is an utter waste.

library channel

Digital cable has a channel for everything, MTV has about 30 channels, why isn't there a "Library Channel?"  

No idea what it might have as far as programming, but, surely there's plenty of educational programming available.  What ever happened to Reading Rainbow anyway?

all this talk about electronic documents - at work we have dozens of binders, each with smaller booklets on specific machines, full of all kinds of job codes and rules, they could be easily digitized, and probably exist in a digital format somewhere, but I think it's much easier to flip pages in a binder then scroll through hundreds of pages in pdfs.   

endnoteweb

Ew, I may have been dragging my feet, but I hate endnote, I will never use anything like it if not for a project. I really don't care for bookmarks, I have a few, and I just use google to find anything else, Wikis seem to be a much better tool to share info with than any of these other social bookmarking tools

blogger <3s Mac's Dashboard

I downloaded the Blogger widget to see if it was interesting.  I'm currently using it to post this particular entry.  It's a little light on features, no spell check, but you just type in this box, and you can either publish the post or save it as a draft.  If you take bloggin seriously, it's probalby not a great option, but if you just want to write a short little post, like I'm doing now, well, I'll have to see how it works out. 

translation online

At work we sometimes receive claims in Spanish & French. No one is truely fluent, although certain words are unique or cognates. Such as solenoid = solenoide.

Our solution: copy and paste the entire block of text into babbelfish or freetranslation.com and then do our best to decipher the resulting text.

Obviously manually looking up each individual word, online or in a reference book, would take an enormous amount of time. What can digital libraries and web 2.0 do to help remove the language barrier, not just for claims analyst's but for the public

social bookmarking

All of these social bookmarking sites, blogs, etc can be fun. However, while they may have a use in libraries now and in the future, I think because of the un-mediated nature, they can also be misleading and ultimately time wasting when they come up in search results. There are many other interesting technologies available, why the extensive focus on social bookmarking? (Yes I wouldn't even look at it if it wasn't required)

Analyze that

So, having officially been an analyst for 2 days, the way the records are managed is similar to the way our Endeavor Voyager records were managed. Every item has various different records, with different information on each item. The barcode on teh item record, the title on the bib records, the holdings record.... I realize there are advantages to spreading item information across more than one record, but it still seems to me it'd be a hell of a lot easier if all the information was on the same record.

Wow...

So, using my mobile phone, a transflash card inside the phone, imovie on my imac and my broadband connection supplied by comcast for the oh so bargain price of 39.99/mo and don't forget an overactive imagination coupled with an excess of time in the compact shelving of the archives.... I present me, as well, myself, kindly filmed by a nameless co-worker.

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