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That's a really great idea! You should pass it on to the OAW sponsors. You might want to look at some of the Sparky award winners -- they'll be too short, but you could play several at a single lunch. - RepoRat

Thanks! Copyright Criminals was new to me as was the Sparky Awards (how embarrassing) - copystar

This is an 1:21 of John Wilbanks "The Fragmentation and Re-Integration of Scholarly Communication" , but I it is 52 minutes for the presentation and about 30 minutes of questions. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Yo Joe. No, go slow.

Just as a follow-up. I'm not doing this series this year on account that we might be going on strike during Open Access week and the irony of it all is too painful. - copystar

Can I do it then :) - Meg V. Meg from fftogo

Maybe also Sonic Outlaws or Tribulation 99. - Meg V. Meg from fftogo

OMG, Tribulation 99. I forgot that I saw that once years ago at Film Forum. Off to see what parts may be on YouTube now. - Stephen le Francoeur

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an example of remix culture, no? - copystar

Also http://www.rifftrax.com/ - Yo Joe. No, go slow.

awww…even in my handwriting. But it wasn't at a conference, it would have to have been at ACRL Immersion, I would think, since that's where we met. - Jason Griffey

Yep. The conference ended a couple of pages before I met you. I also attended a Moodle implementation meeting before I met you. (paper notebooks don't fill up very quickly when I take most of my notes on my computer.) - lris

Immersion was your second conference (or similar professional activity), I think. I met you at your first conference about four months earlier. [ETA: Oops. I didn't read the context properly, and missed the chronology.] - Julian

Maybe you need some sort of reservation system like some academic libraries do. Or put up a pay wall to reserve the room for all day use. - ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫

Our reservations work on what we call the 2-2-2 rule. You can reserve a room for up to 2 hours, with a minimum of 2 people, up to 2 weeks in advance. (fwiw, we're an academic library) - Elizabeth

We make them groups-have-priority, but other than that, it's first-come-first-serve. Any kind of rules (even groups-have-priority rules) do require some kind of policing, though? Otherwise you are just setting people up to expect the library's rules to be irrelevant. - Marianne

Yeah, I know it will take some policing. I'm just trying to figure out what will take the least. Take reservations only for set times? (What if the time is 10-12 and 12-2 and they come at 11? or 11:30?) Sign people in whenever they show up and kick them out after 2 hours? So confusing. - laura x

We have an online reservation system. 3 hours per day per person maximum, 2 people minimum to a room. If the room's not reserved, then anyone can use it. - Jason P

Jason said what I was going to (and we just went to a new system - it's Open Room from Ball State) - ellbeecee

People check them out (they are set up as faux items) via the circ system for 2 hours. They can renew if no one is waiting. - maʀtha

here's the info from one of our local PLs - http://brentwood-tn.org/Modules... - ~Courtney F

Groups of two or more can check out study rooms for two hours at a time. If no one else has placed a reservation, they can extend their reservation on an hour-by-hour basis. Reservations are accepted online, via phone, or in person and can be scheduled for any time during the current undergraduate term. Reservations are limited to one per day, per group (all members). - Soup in a TARDIS

Elizabeth's 2-2-2 rule is what we also do. If people come in at 11, and the next reservation is for 12, the 11 person can have it for an hour, or come back at 2 and have it for 2 hours. First-come sign-ups, no MORE than 2 hours, no guarantees. A single person using a room will be ejected in favor of letting in a legitimate group. - Jenica

We have an online reservation which lets you book up to 2 hours a day. (Per person - we don't have it fancy enough to keep track of all members, so if a group is really savvy they could theoretically book for 2 hours in one name, 2 hours in the next, etc. I don't think this much happens though.) If it's not in use anyone can use it but is liable to be kicked out if someone who booked it turns up. - Deborah Fitchett

3 hour reservation. if no one else reserves for the time after them they can stay until someone asks for it, but no back to back reservations. - kristin buxton

Had to wait on posting this until today. Many people have mentioned room reservation software, so I wanted to point out that Springshare just released a free version of LibCal, a calendar system that also has a room booking component. You can set it up so that people are limited to a certain amount of time each day. Let me know if you want more deets! - Laura H.

Those darn vendors, butting in here with useful information. - Steele Lawman

Sorry, Steve. ;) - Laura H.

We check out our rooms--they're locked. You can check one out for 2 hours at a time, though I think if you're working in a group the next person in the group can probably check it out, especially if we're not busy. The ones on the 2nd floor get used a lot, downstairs in the lower level less so--despite that they are bigger and have TVs to project and half of them get a TON of natural light. - Hedgehog

Individual or Group study rooms: reservations (4 hour blocks) have priority, reservations must be made 24 hours in advance. No singles in group rooms. Haven't maxed out on use, so currently can "renew" once. We open the staff conference room after 5 p.m. for student use. Presentation Lab has priority for people actually practicing presentations, but can be used as a group study room. Use the University software to reserve the rooms, staff enters the reservation to prevent [obvious] monopolization. - Kathy

You may have to enforce sharing. We have a policy that people can reserve rooms for 2 hours, but basically have to renew it afterward for 1 hour intervals. That way, someone else can get a crack at the room but we don't immediately boot people. - Andy

Our check-outables check out for three hours at a time. No renewals, generally - if you come back in 30 minutes and it's still available, then we'll check it out to you. We don't police them hardcore, so it's possible you could snipe the room with another member of the same group if we don't remember the face. We have 2 reservable study rooms that students can reserve for 3-hour blocks ahead of time. We also do have a handful of first-come first-served rooms that people tend to park in all day. - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

At the part time job, all of the study rooms are first-come, first-serve. However, we have six up-to-two persons rooms, one up-to-four persons room (which I watched as one group crammed 10 people into the other day), and one up-to-six persons room. The two more-than-two persons rooms are kept locked when not in use as the people using it are required to leave ID/keys/something they... more... - Katie

Like Martha, we use our circ system, though the calendar function is incredibly clunky. People can book up to 2 hours at a time, and they seem to police themselves quite well. (http://catalogue.mcgill.ca/F...) - Megan loves summer

Laura - did you see this? http://ff.im/LKLZR - ~Courtney F

I did not! Thanks! - laura x

We need another zine! I know I promised an article, how about you? - maʀtha

maybe these should go on the much neglected LSW WordPress site? - maʀtha

Can I count contributing to the zine as a writing credit on my CV? - maʀtha

Martha--I have it listed on mine - Hedgehog

Heck, I listed it in my SLA election bio. Do it! - Chris Z.

Ooh! Shiny and efficient! What's the CMS used on campus? - Julian

Funny, we just did a new page. Have had catalog from page one for a while, but now it's all much simplified. We do not have a Crown Jewels tab - sob - but then, we are short on crown jewels. - barbara fister

Julian, the CMS is Reason, an open source CMS that our web group developed. - lris

Oh, and I forgot to mention that the facelift unveiling extends to our catalog, which now has VuFind goodness. - lris

oh, you went with VuFind? somehow I didn't know that - maʀtha

Yep. Hosted by mnpals. - lris

Oh! Like us! - maʀtha

Anything you can do we can do later. ;-) - lris

heh - maʀtha

Wow. Reason looks like a really impressive CMS. Very cool. - David Rothman (☤)

Lovely! So nice and simple. - Galadriel C.

Love how simple it is! Not overwhelming :) - Hedgehog

Jeez - for that matter, how do *I* get a registration? - Catherine Pellegrino

Ours requires ezproxy authentication. - Meg V. Meg

Can't you just click the registration link? And then create an account with your .edu email address? - Meg V. Meg

Yes, once you click the link you're fine - it's the page that HAS the link on it that has to be restricted to your campus community. We have ezproxy, but no easy (heh) way to create a page that's limited to proxied access only. - Catherine Pellegrino

... what prevents you from publishing the link to all and sundry? I smell rly bad security here somewhere. - RepoRat

Nothing is actually preventing us, but ACS's license forbids us from publishing the link on a publicly-accessible web page. (Again: getting this all secondhand, quite possibly garbled beyond all recognition.) - Catherine Pellegrino

... uh-huh. That's gonna work. Sure. Where's Aaron Swartz when you need him? - RepoRat

Quite. - Catherine Pellegrino

RR - this is *ACS* *&CAS* you're surprised? - Christina Pikas

I mean, for notorious IP paranoiacs, that's a hella lackadaisical approach to security. - RepoRat

*head explodes* We have the registration behind what we call Passport York authentication. - John Dupuis

We have a links on our website, but the links to go a page on our website that you have to log in to see, and that web page has the links you need to actually use SciFinder Scholar. - lris

Yeah, the obvious thing is to put it on our intranet, which is -- theoretically, at least -- behind an authentication wall. But this is what the Chemistry dept and campus IT came up with, so... *shrugs shoulders* - Catherine Pellegrino

You don't have the ability to lock down pages on your site to campus users only? That's what we do. Then it works for everyone. - lris

To my knowledge, we don't have that ability on the library web site or the public campus website, no. - Catherine Pellegrino

Ah. Blech. - lris

"to my knowledge" = it's quite possible that we DO have that ability and I just don't know about it, but if we did, wouldn't campus IT know about it? Wait, don't answer that one... - Catherine Pellegrino

If you proxy the link to the registration page, you have not published the link to the registration page - you have basically published a link to the proxy login page. That should be plenty sufficient. - awd

But won't on-campus users be able to get to the proxied page without having to log into the proxy first? - Steele Lawman

Steve's got it. Can't have any walk-up users, nosirree. - Catherine Pellegrino

I think you can tell EZProxy that ALL users have to log in to access that page. - DJF

EZProxy has a setting which you can use to disallow IP-based bypass of login (I think configurable at the individual link level) - awd

*jinxies* at DJF *pinch* *poke* *you owe me a Coke* - awd

Ah, cool. We use the WAM proxy thingy from III. Which may explain why we have simply ignored that part of the contract. http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/library... - Steele Lawman

We've just proxied the link, and IP-based access is allowed afaik. OTOH there's almost no walk-up access to computers on campus anymore (most need you to log in with uni username/password), and *anyway* it's impossible to register to SciFinder Web unless you have a university email address, so I really don't know what their fuss is all about. - Deborah Fitchett

I send people the passwords by email, plus library staff have the email they can send out if they have a request at the desk. I think the issue is that people can see the URL and copy it to get pirated access somehow. ACS also had a problem with their proxy certificate about a year ago, so we had a lot of issues with that too. - Elizabeth Brown

It is really *really* hard to get pirated access to SciFinder; copying the url won't do it. SciFinder has more security than my bank just for their passwords, and then there's IP/proxy authentication on top of that, and then on top of *that* you have to register with an email address from your institution's domain. The only non-kosher access to SciFinder I've ever heard of has involved people sharing passwords, and hiding a URL away does nothing to prevent that. - Deborah Fitchett

You're right, Deborah. I think the real reason is CAS is paranoid, and almost irrationally so, about pirating. I was under the impression, when CAS showed us data from illegal downloads when I was at the ACS conference in 2009, that hackers were also getting usernames and/or passwords somehow and also circumventing the IP filtering. - Elizabeth Brown

I used to work at UCSD, with a lot of pharma and biotech in the surrounding area. Word was, the companies would get database passwords from students or just simply hire students and use them for their access. If you think databases are expensive for colleges, you should see what the ACS charges industry. - Steele Lawman

I have the link hidden in a proxied tinyurl from libguides, http://0-tinyurl.com.bianca.pe... via http://libguides.du.edu/scifind.... So, the only way to get to the /real/ URL is if you have a DU ID number and passcode. I could have put this through our portfolio pages with limited access to DU peeps only, but this was slightly easier. Make any sense? - Yo Joe. No, go slow.

In my previous comment, I think my point was that ACS is not necessarily irrationally paranoid about pirating, but they steps they take to prevent that pirating may indeed be irrational. - Steele Lawman

I certainly agree with you Steve. There is a lot of trading of passwords for the SciFinder database, since once you register, you can use it off campus, pretty easily. Just give your login id and password to your friend in China, and tell him or her where to click, and they are golden.... Until the they notice strange download patterns, and then they send you 6 warnings saying that something is wrong. [Not that anything like that has happened anywhere I am familiar with....] - Yo Joe. No, go slow.

Dr. Kathleen de la Pena McCook - Steele Lawman

Derek Badman - Steele Lawman

Andromeda Yelton - Steele Lawman

Duffy Tweedy - Steele Lawman

I nominate Iris Jastram. - Jason Griffey

About five guys names Steve, Stephen, Michael, and or Jason. Michael Stephens can pull double duty, triple if he changes/reveals his middle name to be "Jason." - Steele Lawman

Joey Digits. . . oh wait, that's not his real name. - laura x

Buffy Hamilton. - laura x

Chadwick Seagraves. - laura x

While "Rogers" might be out, you've got to include anyone named "Jenica" - Jason Griffey

LIttle known fact: While my name is spelled "Jason Griffey", it's actually pronounced "Throat-Warbler Mangrove". - Jason Griffey

Way to rub it in. - Meg V. Meg

Laura Laurel Lara Lafave - Yo Joe. No, go slow.

Jason, it was my impression that Jenica was on the ALA-SIRTSDOLN back when she was Jenica P. Rogers-Urbanek. - Steele Lawman

Galadriel Chilton (this may, perhaps, be one of my favorite names ever. LOTR and automotive manuals? Yeah. :) ) - ellbeecee

Happy Blitt and Sunny Yoon. - Stephen le Francoeur from Android

If it includes developers of library automation software, then Lebbeous Fogle-Weekley is clearly president for life. - DJF

Melissa Records, is still the best actual librarian name I know - Eric Sizemore

Char Booth - Kathryn is Blake in Hindi

Karen whatsit and Michelle thing should be there too ( bonus if middle name is Kate or a variation of K(C)athe(a)r(i)yn(e) ) - Kathryn is Blake in Hindi

When I was in Montreal, Amy's friend the LIS professor got very excited about Graham Lavender and his partner Amanda Halfpenny. She said they sounded like a secret agent couple. - Jason P

I'm aware of an archives assistant named Dusty Folds. - LB: #TeamMonique from YouFeed

Etienne Posthumus at TU Delft Library (bonus points for his first name being a French version of "Stephen" and for the awesome self-description on his blog: http://www.epoz.org/) - Stephen le Francoeur

There's a Sonnet Irish on the humanities librarians list. That's my favorite name ever. - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

I am suddenly sad about how mundane my name is. All I can say is that I have the names of two different train lines, and that's just sad. - Katy S

My name's plenty weird, just not amusingly weird. All in all, I can live with that. - RepoRat

<threadjack> My mom worked with a woman whose name was Peola Smith. Peola married a man whose last name was Smith. Peola decided that she wanted to keep her maiden name as well, so she hyphenated her name. Yes, she became Peola Smith-Smith. True story. </threadjack> - Andy

Andy, that reminds me of an author I worked with when I was in publishing. He was a psychiatrist named Robert Emde (the last name was pronounced em-dee). So he was Robert Emde, MD, or alternatively, Dr. Emde. - Stephen le Francoeur

There's a Dr Nurse near me - DJF from Android

There's a lawyer named Courtney B. Justice in a town not far from here. - Catherine Pellegrino

Ah, how this thread doth wobble and wander. - Stephen le Francoeur

Yes, Galadriel! I knew there was another LSW person on the Special Round Interest Table. - Steele Lawman

Our music librarian in my last job was named Clinkscales. - Jason P

<threadjack>My former primary-care physician was Dr. Pepper. Seriously.</threadjack> - RepoRat

<threadjack> We just hired Dr. Plague to work in the Biology department.</threadjack> - Jenica

Jenica, did you run a background check? He sounds like a supervillain. - Jason P

in re: background checks, my orthopedic surgeon is Dr. John Savage. If he were less austere and serious i'd ask him if he's a comic-book character. - Jenica

whoa, hey, RepoRt! - maʀtha

"your privacy is one of the three to fifteen things we are most concerned about". - Marianne

Okay, that? Was awesome. (Thanks for linking, Marianne - I'd meant to ask about it earlier today, and it slipped my mind.) - Catherine Pellegrino

I almost like the final exchange more than the brilliant exposition:Q: "I have no idea what you just said." A: "Sounds to me like you're a thought leader." - Walt Crawford

For me it was the stock photography (if it was real stock photos). Holy wow. - Catherine Pellegrino

That's great. - barbara fister

i'm totally a member of flockd up. haters. - jambina

Link to yourself! - John: Thread Killer

always. and 4evah. - jambina

They have a tote bag! Count me in! - Kirsten

Please! - Jason - The Opaque from Android

Curious. Do you mean you managed to embed a libraryh3lp widget into your library facebook page? I managed to do that, but with one drawback in that it will not work if the user is using https. - aarontay

The instructions at http://www.colleenscommentary.net/2011... got me through most of it. I just got stuck when it wouldn't give me the option to set up a tab. Turns out that when it asks for the "Tab URL" (meaning the URL that the tab draws its content from) it requires a "valid" url, the requirements... more... - Deborah Fitchett

I haven't addressed the https issue yet alas... - Deborah Fitchett

what are you writing a book on? and yay! - Sir Shuping is just sir

My advice: the two best days when writing a book are the day you sign for it, and the day it's accepted for publication. Everything in between, not so much fun. :-) - Jason Griffey

Congrats! - LB: #TeamMonique

tentative title: Marketing your library's electronic resources: a how-to-do-it manual. and thanks! - Marie

Griffey, ping me in August to make sure I'm still alive, please. The thing is due Sept. 1. - Marie

I disagree with Griffey. The best day is when the first print copy arrives. Whew: A three-month deadline? Sounds like an ALA Editions Special Report... Oh, and congratulations! - Walt Crawford

Congratulations! - MoTO #TeamMonique from Android

Congratulations, Marie! - AJ Batac

Hooray and congrats! :) So exciting to have a contract in hand - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

Woohoo!!! - Kirsten from fftogo

Woooooooooooo! That's something I'd actually want to read a book about! - Catherine Pellegrino

Hey Marie, where are you going with that contract in your hand... ? - Yo Joe. No, go slow.

#fuckyeahbuttercup - jambina

Thanks for sharing my long ass post. - Wilk

Lane, it was really great. I appreciate the effort that went into your post and am eager to read the followup. - Stephen le Francoeur

I'll follow up when I get more beer. It takes a minimum of four Yuenglings for me to write anything. - Wilk

So that would be one beer per hour of writing, correct? - Stephen le Francoeur

At a bare minimum - Wilk from iPod

Like, but I'll have to read it a couple more times...I'm clearly too old to regard constructivism, um, constructively: I remember how I reacted when a true believer in Wikipedia wrote that, if most people agree that 2+2=5, then 2+2=5. "Batshit" is one way to describe my reaction. (OK, so I'm the son of an engineer and brother of a chemist...) - Walt Crawford

Walt, i've heard the same strange arithmetic. It's scary how Orwellian constructivism is, isn't it? - Wilk from iPod

It is indeed, and "Orwellian" is a great label. - Walt Crawford

Lane, I respectfully disagree. - Meg V. Meg

Constructivism seems Orwellian when you think you represent the view that should naturally/obviously be in power. - Meg V. Meg

I don't believe it's about power; it's about reality. Constructivism denies that there are exterior facts. Those aren't a matter of "power" or "privilege." But I suspect we're not going to agree on this. - Walt Crawford

We are not. You are correct in that. Whoever is in power effectively defines reality. - Meg V. Meg

I come to my philosophy from a background in science (degrees in physics and evolutionary biology). Over the years, the study of science became less interesting to me than the study of how science/knowledge is made (i.e. science and technology studies, which I pursued a doctoral program in before realizing how much I missed my work being hands-on and practical; hence, science... more... - Meg V. Meg

I don't agree that facts can be made up by voting. Often, the majority is wrong. Even if 99% of people thought 2+2=5, that is still wrong and is not true in fact. Such as when most people thought all the planets and the sun revolved around the earth. Just because lots of people thought that didn't make it true. The external evidence and the facts eventually won. - Yo Joe. No, go slow.

Oh, and Meg, I think you are an awesome librarian, that's a fact, Jack. - Yo Joe. No, go slow.

Meg: I come to my philosophy from a background in ethics. Specifically, I'm one of those bleeding heart liberals who believes in human rights, equality and freedom from oppression, all of which are explicitly denied by constructivism. For example, I know (not just believe) that it is morally wrong to sentence gays to death for being gay (as is the consensus view in Uganda). I find this... more... - Wilk

Liking for the awesome sauce that is librarian philosophers. I came to my MLS after masters and a bit of phd work in the Phil of Science, background in evolution and microbiology. I gotta say I'm mostly with Lane on this one...I appreciate coherence views of epistemology, but prefer mine grounded in nice comfy rationalistic facts. Like math, and physics, and human rights. :-) - Jason Griffey

1: Bruno Latour didn't found STS. He originated Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Maybe that is what you are thinking of? - Meg V. Meg

2: People can and do violate human rights in the name of science, these things are not mutually exclusive - Meg V. Meg

1. Sorry, I got ahead of myself. Latour didn't invent STS, he was just one of the most influential theorists in STS. (cf. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, 1979) - Wilk

There are things that Are and we cannot change them. We might be able to change representations etc, but that is a different thing. Power will make use of whatever tools it can- relativism, absolutism, whatever. Power is the issue. I come at philosophy from a background in political science and religious studies. - Pete #TeamMonique

2. People do violate human rights in the name of science all the time. That's obvious. But all a constructivist can do is "agree to disagree" on these matters because there is no fact of the matter about human rights. As a realist, I can say that these violations are flat-out wrong, and objectively so. - Wilk

My Realist International Politics Professor flat out denied the existence of human rights - Pete #TeamMonique

Meg: I have no idea what kind of librarian you are--or *who* you are, for that matter. Not my business. I come from a split background: A degree in rhetoric with an informal manner in math. I don't deny biases and power issues. I do deny that knowledge is a social construct. And, unlike Lane, I have neither the expertise nor time to expand that any further. - Walt Crawford

Yep, I didn't mean to start a pedigree thread. I only brought up my background because otherwise people assume that I don't know anything about science. I am a "science AND construction" person, not a "science OR construction" person. Walt, would you agree that knowledge is socially constructed (via peer-review, for example)? - Meg V. Meg

So, is the fact that the earth rotates around the sun a constructed truth? I don't think so. It is a fact no matter what people think or believe. - Yo Joe. No, go slow. from iPod

What Joe sez. Facts are not social constructs, and therefore knowledge is not inherently a social construct. Otherwise, this is just too deep a discussion for FF or my tired brain. You're unlikely to turn me into a constructivist; it's probably a waste of time to try. - Walt Crawford

Peer-review is a process by which research is vetted to ensure that it tracks the truth. For example, in the sciences, the reviewers examine methodology, instruments, check the math, determine reliability and validity, etc. The process is expressly designed to minimize social or cultural influences and all of this is aimed at tracking the truth, not coming to an agreement. Of course, if... more... - Wilk

Joe, I could write an entire book in answer to that question, but luckily someone else already did a bang-up job of it: http://www.amazon.com/Genesis... - Meg V. Meg

Turn the RSS feed of the tweets into a Google Reader subscription, then use Google Reader "Play" - Peter Murray

(You can "Play" an RSS feed by clicking on the down triangle next to the feed name and selecting "Play".) - Peter Murray

Good idea, but they're mostly not my tweets and are scattered over the course of the last few months. - John Dupuis

See http://www.ampercent.com/goole-r... for more details. - Peter Murray

Storify just tweeted me that I can do what I want with their service. I just have to add /slideshow at the end of the story url. Very, very cool. - John Dupuis

Very cool. http://storify.com/dupuisj... Just use the left & right arrow to go through the "slides." - John Dupuis

Very cool indeed. (I take it the four slides there now are just placeholders/test run...?) - Bill Hooker

(h/t to ellbeecee for pointing me to this) - holly #ravingfangirl

I am so stoked about this. Amazon has an Appstore, music download and cloud player, easy Kindle books... so how long do I have to wait for the Amazon tablet? I would really like to see an Amazon tablet based on Android and all the signs are there that it's coming. - Dan: Bibrarian

This is awesome. I want an iOS app for cloud player, but amazon has just nailed this thing v - Jason Griffey from iPhone

this fixes my one whine about the cloud player, because I am a bit obsessive about my scrobbling. YAY! - holly #ravingfangirl

bah... I'm not smart enough to make it work in opera - Michael W. May

LOL - Jenica

#enjoysmeat #pause - holly #ravingfangirl

Zomg! how do I not own this? I had the WWE documentary but lost it in the move :( - Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce

it just came out last month. imma buy for the library too! - holly #ravingfangirl

I dunno. They're going to have to work pretty hard to top Mick Foley's books. :) - Dan: Bibrarian

true, but come on... ROAD WARRIORS! - holly #ravingfangirl

:( I lost Micks books too. Including the children's Christmas book illustrated by Jerry Lawler - Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce

aw. :( - holly #ravingfangirl

In our case it's a 3-ring binder with student IDs paperclipped to the pages eta: there is a local pl that has a very nice online system but I don't know what it is - ~Courtney F from iPod

we catalogued'em and use Aleph to book them. - jambina

They are first come, first serve. Circulation checks out the keys (keys are barcoded, much like a book). They check out for 3 hours at a time. - Angel R. Rivera

We don't reserve and I'm not sure on the time limit. We're also in the process of adding 6 new ones in the basement, which means no one is using the other 4 down there (too much construction). So while the ones we have are usually full, I'm not sure how that will shake down once we get through construction. - Hedgehog

Here's the PL page - http://brentwood-tn.org/index... LMK if you want me to intro you to the lib director - ~Courtney F from iPod

thanks, and bumping this up for the Wednesday crowd to see :) - ellbeecee

we use Google calendars. People can contact us and ask to reserve a room. We only do this for three rooms that have a large monitor, mac mini, and keyboards. Other study rooms are squatter's rights. - barbara fister

First come first serve, but we do have a handful of reservables. We use Outlook. - ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤

Paper Calendar, but we just started using an OUTLOOK calendar as well - Jason - The Opaque

To follow up on jambina: one good thing about using Aleph is that students can log in with their library account. However! You have the view the calendar room-by-room; you can't just see what's available at a given time. Which sux. - Megan loves summer

Awesome!!!!! - Hedgehog

There really, really needs to be a LOVE button for stuff like this. - Catherine Pellegrino

Right now, she/he is listening to "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple. What else is on his iCod? - Yo Joe. No, go slow.

Thank you, Steve! It's wonderful! (Should I say, "OMC"?) - LB: #TeamMonique

"Down By the River" by Neil Young? Um. Well. Maybe not. Edited to add: especially now that I recall that cod are ocean fish. DUH. - laura x

Octopus's Gaden, surely. Cod Save the Queen. Ocean Size. - Steele Lawman from iPod

"Yellow Submarine" and "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" ("Haaaaaands across the water...") - LB: #TeamMonique

Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. http://www.youtube.com/watch..., also Peter Gabriel's cover when mopey http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Nikki D.

Beyond the Sea. The Eddystone Light! - laura x

Ocean Rain -- Echo and the Bunnymen - ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫

"Take me to the river". Talking heads - marlene

"Down by the Water," PJ Harvey. - Rachel Walden

Ocean by Velvet Underground - ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫

School of Fish. (Too 90s?) - Nikki D.

Country Joe and the Fish (too Woodstock?) - Steele Lawman

The soundtrack from Finding Nemo. - Yo Joe. No, go slow.

I approve Phish, School o' Fish, Fishbone and Country Joe and the Fish. Nemo is cool too. - ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫

Don't forget Flipper! - JffKrlsn from iPod

Waterfalls by TLC - "Don't go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the river and the lakes that you're used to..." - Connie Crosby

I love seeing the iCod "resurface" in my "stream." :) - LB: #TeamMonique

really, if it is an iCod, wouldn't one put it in one's ear? - maʀtha

"Holy Diver" - Kevin L

iCod = Babelfish - barbara fister