OWL: Librarian's Place

"How to Find the Best Literary Twitter Chat By Jason Boog on Oct 30, 2009 12:23 PM" - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Analysis of twitter use, including some recent egs (Moir, Carter-Ruck) and some unconvincing credit-taking by Scott Pack. - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Very good!!!!!!! - Maxine from Bookmarklet

by Ellen Baker, author of "Keeping the House" - Maxine from Bookmarklet

"After years of library membership declining and fears that the public no longer wanted to borrow books, some institutions are reporting a spike in interest since they started to offer e-books" - Maxine from Bookmarklet

"Forty years ago, he was among a group of computer scientists who brought us what know today as the Internet." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Quote: "authors can now skip the entire traditional book publishing route." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Thanks for posting this article, Maxine. It really can be a whole new world out there for authors... - Margot Kinberg

Nice. Quote: "My recent Friday night visit to the library showed me that students are spending time in the library as a convenient and quiet place to study or to meet other students for group discussions. This was a very heartwarming revelation for me and made me feel much more positive about the library-visit requirements in my own classes." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Enjoyable techno-personal-historical memoir. Quote: "what has really challenged publishing is Print on Demand, books that are entirely electronic and read on computers, and self-publishing. Also, the shift from physical books stored in warehouses and taxed as property to books as “potential” databases has muddled business models. Now we are in a position to entirely bypass publishers and are dumped into chaos again. " - Maxine from Bookmarklet

"German chancellor expresses fears for copyright in run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair" Plus companion story, same paper, here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol... - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Enjoyed Sergey Brin in NYT: "real winners are the readers who have access to greatly expanded world of books". He has made a good counter-case I think. The devil will be in the details. http://go.nature.com/DOqqzL - Maxine

"More Sara Lloyd: Apple ,Google et al not used to dealing w/ publishers so no established terms..new distribution chain sprouting overnight." - Maxine

Quote: "The papers also include photographs, files of brochures and fliers used in his research, sample dust-jacket designs, and letters from such literary figures as Kurt Vonnegut and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as from fans." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Quote: "Men still outnumber women in science and engineering fields. Would a science-loving "Hannah Montana" type change that?" - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Seriously, I'm not kidding, there is a comment at the article that reads: "Pls proof reading the article. spelling and terminolgy errors." Five spelling and grammar errors in that brief comment. (Six if you are a pedant and think that proof-read requires a hyphen.) - Maxine

"The Royal Society Science Book Prize-winner will be announced a week today. Robert Matthews introduces the shortlist" - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Quote: "What I care about is if my librarian is helping, in his or her small way, to maintain our culture and our civilization, or whether he or she is acquiescing, in a limp and laughable way, to its degradation." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Sad news. Quote: "“After 14 years of working as the webmaster for The Centaurian site I am, of course, very troubled about this ruptured turn of events, but that does not in the least dim my grateful memory of the long and pleasant collaboration I had with David Lull and Larry Randen, my bibliographic and literary co-webmasters. They were so utterly faithful and supportive over the years with resources and advice that I do not know how adequately to say thank you. The site was uploaded online for the first time on 15 November 1996 when I was teaching at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

Thanks, Maxine. Here, saved at the Librarian's Place blog, is Jim Yerkes' account of the beginning of The Centaurian website, which was posted on its tenth anniversary: http://librariansplace.wordpress.com/2006... - Dave Lull

Said the headmaster “When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books..." Wow.! - Mack Lundy

Quote: "Dave Lull and a few others.. assiduously read and forward articles, reviews, remarks, in his role as a librarian. Somehow he keeps track of what people care about and relays the information. He does it for free." - Maxine from Bookmarklet

"Dr. John, the library's first curator of eManuscripts, is working on ways to archive the deluge of computer data swamping scientists so that future generations can authenticate today's discoveries and better understand the people who made them." "It would be tragic if there were no record of lives that were so influential," Dr. John says. - Maxine from Bookmarklet

This is the man I was suggesting be invited to talk at Science Online next year. - Maxine

As a reader, I really don't want to have to shuttle about to get the thread of a narrative. - Jill O'Neill

me neither - sounds very gimmicky. - Maxine

Quote: "within weeks, the English-language Wikipedia will begin imposing a layer of editorial review on articles about living people" - Maxine from Bookmarklet