 |
|
| FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online. Learn more » |
Deborah Fitchett
Fully paid up Library Society of the World member, and Information Librarian at University of Canterbury Engineering Library.
@flexnib Food and drink policy here at http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/ucpolic... (pdf), #6. "Offends" includes smell. MB is partly cultural, partly the material.
Eg no freedom to read without books; no freedom to educate yourself if stuck in subsistence models of living. -Definitely pub material. :-)
.@ranginui @dannevirkelib I think rights, freedoms, etc are imaginary but necessary - if we didn't invent them society would fall apart.
But now I'm off home for Canterbury Show Weekend! Bye, all!
When Innovation Gets Difficult « iterating toward openness - http://opencontent.org/blog...
'Imposing your will on bits and bytes is “easy.” Leading an established institution through the valley of the shadow of reform and up the opposite bank toward innovation is “hard.”'
- Deborah Fitchett
.@chawnerb @tararobertson Is vendor spam really a problem? Hitting "delete" seems easy compared to getting sponsorship and selling booths.
Laura B home liked this
Cute cats are cute, but this is why I love lolcats.
- Deborah Fitchett
@sirexkathryn My Technorati search alert for LIANZA09 suddenly started feeding in piles of random stories - unsubscribed. Prefer IceRocket.
Making lists & sloppily classifying people. If I put you in the wrong list please let me know! Also please let me know of glaring omissions.
Links of Interest 4/11/09 - http://deborahfitchett.blogspot.com/2009...
Dolphin Delivers Deviously for Rewards - http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2009...
librarian.net : bitnorth : 31oct09 - http://www.librarian.net/talks...
"Stupid rules and how to change them: Why manners are simultaneously outmoded and tired and also the best way to get anything done."
- Deborah Fitchett
RT @GayNZ Welly's lesbian library needs a new home http://www.gaynz.com/article...
Evil plans don’t come up « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger? - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009...
STATIC ELECTRICITY « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger? - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009...
Big ideas... - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
Starting an article with "The future of reading is very much in doubt. [...] Only at living history farms will we see people reading." in order to get eyeballs, then eventually conceding that "Reports of the death of reading are premature." is just cheating. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article...
Victor Ganata liked this
@stuartlewis I don't suppose there's a command lscd? Because I always ls and then expect to be *in* the directory. #notaunixgeek
(They said I couldn't tweet about it but they didn't say I couldn't FriendFeed about it.) Finding it bizarre that I have Twitter lists installed when I log in to Twitter on my office PC but not when I log in of the circ/ref desk PC.
Oh, foo. I wasn't jealous of Google Wavers when it was just a few elites I didn't know but now that all the cool people are getting it I am!
Unshelved comic strip published Wednesday October 28, 2009 - http://www.unshelved.com/archive...
"Why are you telling me about everything in the library?"
- Deborah Fitchett
Unshelved comic strip published Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - http://www.unshelved.com/archive...
Aaron the Librarian, Rev. Dr. W!cKeD Rock, ωαřмaiden, MFA'd poet and Rachel Walden liked this
So, speaking of jargon: say one had discovered to no-one's surprise that the term "reference" on one's website confused students (being ambiguous between dictionaries etc and citing, but also because students just don't grok it). Say furthermore that [...]
... "Dictionaries and encyclopaedias" was considered not to cover everything and besides was one character too long for space available. What alternatives might you consider?
- Deborah Fitchett
wait the people kind of reference or the information in books/etc.. reference? Would I get a list of library folk who staff the reference desk or are available for consultations, or a list of resources available for help on a myriad of topics?
- JSNFLMNG
"Dictionaries and encyclopaedias" was ... one character too long for space available." You can save one character by spelling it U.S.-style, Encyclopedias. :-)
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Or by using Unicode æ.
- D0r0th34
Betsy ftw.
- ωαřмaiden, MFA'd poet
So what if "Reference" is more than dictionaries and encyclopedia? What would you label it online if it includes directories, etc.?
- Rachel Walden
directories, yes, but also statistics, atlases, etc.
- marthalib
"Factual Information"?
- Kirsten
I do love a good atlas... dork-->
- marthalib
This is why "reference" is actually a pretty damn good word.
- Steve is older than ever
"books where I can look sh** up"
- marthalib
Small Containers of Stuff Like Wikipedia Only Better
- Aaron the Librarian
"Look it up!" is actually not the world's worst label idea.
- D0r0th34
You know, what, D0r0th34, I think you are right!
- marthalib
+1 Dorothea--and I've seen that used, I think.
- Walt Crawford
Steven, people don't seem to notice the tooltips in our catalogue; not that they do any harm. Jason, the info-in-books-etc reference. Betsy, pff: US spelling on an NZ library site? :-) Dorothea, good point! Kirsten, I also thought of "Quick facts" but the potential implications of that were fuzzy; yours works better. I also thought of "Stuff wot you'd normally go to Wikipedia for"....
- Deborah Fitchett
Dorothea bis: "Look it up!" is great and fits with a task-oriented approach (though it doesn't fit in with the fact that the rest of the homepage isn't task-oriented; but maybe in time...). Steve: yeah, I wonder if "reference" is one of those library jargon words that we just have to keep because it's so darn handy and near-universal among libraries.
- Deborah Fitchett
@tararobertson :-) New Caledonia too. & New Cale's a nice place to *visit*. When I lived there 8months, internet & library saved my sanity.
Other ways to read this feed:
