LibPunk

lris's Protest SOPA coupons, now on SLA Academic Blog. (I have it on very good authority that the author of this blog post wanted to write nothing more than THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER AND YOU SHOULD ALL GET INVOLVED RIGHT NOW I MEAN YESTERDAY, but then worked the post over a bit to be more appropriate to the venue.) - Marianne from Bookmarklet

I made the map! This is like a scavenger hunt! - Andy

I can't find the Boosh scene that I think of every time I put on skinny jeans. My legs are too athletic. - Georgie Bestie

Thanks!!! I forgot the name of it. - Georgie Bestie

Eisen's NYT op-ed http://www.nytimes.com/2012... - Georgie Bestie

How much does it cost to publish a scientific paper? http://scienceblogs.com/digital... - Georgie Bestie

yes. i think we should. tomorrow? tonight? WHENEVER - Georgie Bestie

rock. - jambina

"As a long-time editor of a scholarly journal, I review a substantial amount of new scholarship in my field, almost daily. While many academics in the humanities and social sciences are still producing substantive, rigorous, high-quality scholarship, I have noticed a growing trend that disturbs me and others devoted to rigorous research: Too many academics—veterans and neophytes alike—are producing scholarship that appears to have traded careful, methodical, fully developed intellectual work for quick and dirty publication." - Georgie Bestie from Bookmarklet

you get what you reward. - RepoRat

I'm out this week. In-laws in town. Next week? Thursday? - Zamms

ROCK - jambina

I am just jealous. - Georgie Bestie from Bookmarklet

That... is fairly freakin' awesome. - Dan: Bibrarian

I needed this today. Danke! PS - She's wearing Asics. I WEAR ASICS. - Georgie Bestie

"The more I think and find out about it the worse it seems. I used this figure elsewhere but I think people should see it. A band on my label got a check from me for digital that came mostly from iTunes for about $900. That was for a 2 month period. To get that same amount of money they'd have to get streamed 200000 times. Two hundred thousand! If they got a stream a day it would take over 547 years to make that same amount of money. Now you tell me why this should be the future for artists and labels and how it's just? All the while Spotify grows and reaps the real profit. Think about this when you support them. Even if you don't have a pay account they make money. They've monetized piracy by doling out insultingly small amounts of money and the myth that we'll all get the money back at shows and in merch. It's bullshit." - Georgie Bestie from Bookmarklet

This is one reason why I'm rethinking my streaming subscriptions. It also makes me think of overdrive. - Georgie Bestie

I WAS ROCK AND ROLL - Georgie Bestie

i think i got too much rock and roll this weekend. let me check my schedule. - Georgie Bestie

Oooh, and lookit me with my shiny new passport.... - ωαřмaiden BrokerPokerface

Awesome. I'll check with the higher ups for travel money. - The Ghost of Library Past

It's interesting to see the public's view of what should be acceptable behaviour in a library compared to what a librarian's view. (The latent racism is annoying though.) - Georgie Bestie from Bookmarklet

Agreed. - Derrick

"This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. A total of 3,513 posts were examined and analyzed in various ways, including how many of the posts included user comments and how many had none; how many comments were included in each post; and what the percentage of user participation was on the library walls, in terms of "likes" and comments. The most significant findings are that approximately 91% of the posts do not include any comments, over 82% of user participation is expressed via the "like" functionality and most comments on academic libraries' Facebook pages are not uploaded by prospective users (i.e., college and university faculty and students) but rather by library personnel, employees affiliated with the same institution as the library, and alumni." - Georgie Bestie from Bookmarklet

Oh, and what GB says--although I think it doesn't hurt to see what the Joneses are doing as a form of benchmark. Although, in this "study," the Joneses weren't doing very well either. - Walt Crawford

OKAY. what time? - jambina

We're doing this soon. If you wanna join join join. - Georgie Bestie

duh. yeah. - DJF

As Doris Day once said, "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps." - Chris Zammarelli

I blame the man. - Chris Zammarelli

The NYPL: http://www.thenation.com/article... - Georgie Bestie

http://lisnews.org/its_not... - Georgie Bestie

Do you want to skip a week cos Americans are late with celebrating Thanksgiving compared to Canadians? - Chris Zammarelli

stoopid txgiving. okay. - jambina

RISE ABOVE

"occupy your mom" - jambina

"The police may have forcibly evicted slumberers and their tents set up Wednesday night by Occupy Cal protesters on campus, but never let it be said that Berkeley students aren’t creative. Replacing the tents we have — fittingly enough for a storied institution of learning — books, or rather books made to look like tents. Symbolic perhaps, but making a point nonetheless." - Georgie Bestie from Bookmarklet

Hey Kendra, can you take a CC photo of this at Berkley? The owner has all rights reserved. - ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫

i'll try - Georgie Bestie

no doubt - jambina

No. This is pretty good. - Georgie Bestie

do you have it? - Georgie Bestie

Owned by Salesforce now: http://www.dimdim.com - Chris Zammarelli

Mita Williams' post: http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2011... - Georgie Bestie

Skillz Gap: http://www.fastcompany.com/1795506... - Georgie Bestie