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I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.... working on the diss proposal, finally....
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of course you can. this is even a question?
- D0r0th34
maintaining concentration is very much in question... thanks for the support! :)
- Christina Pikas
some of us know you can, so ditto D.
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
What Exactly Do I Want from Social Networks? - http://superstarchivist.blogspot.com/2009...
Jim Addz No Value, Rob Michael (Atmos Trio), VAL D. Zone and 12 other people liked this
In which I consider Robert Scoble's post.
- Laura B.
And _Julie and Julia_ (book, not movie).
- Laura B.
A very nice post, LB. :)
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Thank you, Ha3rvey. I'm multi-tasking, so I hope it makes sense!
- Laura B.
I wrote about Why I Want a Keurig For Christmas: www.LoisMarketing.com
- Lois Martin
Note to Lois - I'm not getting you one. :P
- Laura B.
Ties in quite nicely with my views on the matter too.
- Mark H
Hi, Alex! Thanks for liking this one! :)
- Laura B.
Well put!
- laura x
Well, Mizz Thang, you asked what I wanted ... :PPPPPPP
- Lois Martin
Yes, and you didn't tell me that you wanted a Keurig! :P
- Laura B.
But I'm telling you now.
- Lois Martin
I loved this post, by the way and linked it earlier.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
I loved the post too, kiddo. :)
- Lois Martin
Thanks, all. :) (Lois is my sister for those of you who don't know that.)
- Laura B.
Company's here! Yay! Have a good weekend, Laura and friends!
- Lois Martin
that was a good post Laura. Well said.
- Jim Addz No Value
Thanks, Jim. It was mostly other folks' thoughts, but that's what I like about social sites!
- Laura B.
I just went bowling. There was beer. Need I say more? I think not...
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it’s always a little more complicated than you think - http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom...
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great post. Characterises a lot of the tensions in my line of work.
- Fiona Bradley
Meet Gypsy
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cutie!!!
- holly
aww...she looks like she's made herself at home already!
- Sir Shuping
well I guess the place is hers now............
- VAL D. Zone
SO CUTE!
- Mary Carmen
Cutie!!! She should join the Cat Lovers Group: http://friendfeed.com/kitteh
- Katy S
She's gorgeous, Abigail!
- Jàson Puçkett
Too cute!!!
- Laura H.
hi cat! :)
- Anna Lynn M.
O HAI, KITTEH!
- Laura B.
She's beautiful! Welcome, Gypsy! You person is a knitter. I forsee much excitement in your future.
- laura x
She's so pretty! Welcome little kitty. -)
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
So beautiful! And she looks at home already.
- Rochelle Rochelle
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Welcome to FF, Gypsy!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
So pretty!
- Ayşe E.
Simonizing for those who weren't online last night...
- Abigail
KITTY! *loves*
- D0r0th34
Welcome home, Gypsy!
- vicster is...
New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/content...
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"Not only will I be able to perform tasks faster than before, but my new device will also inform those around me that I am a successful individual who is up on the latest trends," said Rebecca Hodge
- Seb Paquet
I have online lists that I can synch between my work computer, home computers, and cell phone. I'm connected to people through sixteen-eighteen different Web-based formats. My default settings: mailing a hand written card and keeping a to-do list in a notebook.
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Information literacy: a non-definition - http://stevelawson.name/seealso...
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YouTube - davidrothman.net: On AL and Library 101 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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This is how it is done. Rothman at his best, I'd say.
- s t e v e
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ahaha, that's fantastic
- Fiona Bradley
I left a comment...I'm curious about the connection he draws between disagreeing with LJ's promotion of the AL, and the use of Movers & Shakers to promote oneself. David?
- Jason Griffey
I'll be curious to hear what David says about that. I think that there would be a bit of a disconnect if the same person is saying "LJ editorial standards are crap because they publish the AL" and "I am proud to have the LJ editors' seal of approval as a Mover and Shaker."
- s t e v e
Erm. If LJ editorial standards are crap, I'm in trouble, 'long of how I've been published there and all.
- D0r0th34
I don't think I'd say that LJ's editorial standards are crap...even though I DO disagree with them publishing the AL. But that said, I really see M&S as an award from my peers...someone had to nominate me (probably several someones). But maybe that's me over-parsing my personal part of it. Plus, what Dorothea said...
- Jason Griffey
Well, note that I said "*if* someone is saying that." I'm not personally concerned about it, but that's what I think David is saying. He also says that LJ publishes lots of stuff that reflects badly on librarians.
- s t e v e
Wonderful. I keep thinking whether I should try to say something about this whole event, and David's done such a fine job here that I probably won't. Doubt that I'll do any vlogs, but I sure liked this one. (And I've commented at David's blog, to close the circle.)
- Walt Crawford
Well, and I quibble with the idea that LJ is a library-propaganda arm constrained to publish only "rah-rah libraries!" stuff. Some of the stuff librarians do is bogus. If LJ reports that, more power to LJ.
- D0r0th34
And this is the answer? Yup. Right on David!
- ɥsıuɐʎɹ
Weak editorial standards can still allow in good stuff- and there *is* good stuff in LJ. There's also a lot of crap.
- David Rothman (☤)
Barbara Fister. Andrew Albanese (before he moved to PW, sigh). Peter Jaczo. They publish better stuff than American Libraries at present.
- D0r0th34
Wondering if AL will be nominated or receive M&S for 2010...would be kind of like when Time was going to give Man of the Year to Osama bin Laden. Time's comment: "He is not a larger than life figure with broad historical sweep...he is smaller than life, a garden-variety terrorist whose evil plan succeeded beyond his highest hopes."
- Lori Reed
*dead* over the Mister Muggles cameo.
- cecily
Mister Muggles was played (with unusual patience) by my kitty, Shelby....who felt it was a good stretch to play a male cat.
- David Rothman (☤)
Very well done, David. I tried to stay out of this fray as much as I could because it devolved into name calling/dogpiling on both sides, but your video is a voice of reason (hopefully just one among many).
- cecily
Best thing I've watched online in ages! :) I honestly can't say that I disagree with anything you said there. I totally wrote off M&S after they honored a certain master of sock-puppetry (though I probably should have sooner).
- Meredith
In addition to praising the content (with which I can't find fault), I also want to say that I've never quite gotten the point of videos that are just a talking head...why not just write down what you have to say? Except, now I get it. Bravo.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Ditto Catherine! I've never been much of a video person. This is everything a video blog post should be, but usually isn't.
- Meredith
Catherine, I had the same reaction. Usually I feel like, "I just want to read your words at my own pace. Please no video." This piece convinced me that sometimes it's worth it to hit Play. :)
- Rachel Walden
It was so helpful to have all of David's inflections and mannerisms the occasional silly face. It would have come across quite differently in print, I think.
- marthalib
What Rachel, Catherine, Marthalib and Meredith just said. Damn, there are a lot of smart female librarians on FF. (Maybe that's because there are a lot of smart...oh, never mind.)
- Walt Crawford
Yeah, it transmits all of those non-verbal cues quite nicely that we wouldn't have gotten with just the text. Plus, I made it through David's entire video without wanting to stop it. That wasn't a bad way to spend roughly 7 minutes.
- Peter Murray
David, I wish there was a non-award that I could "nominate" you for. 'Cause that was your greatest video ever.
- Greg Schwartz
Finally got to watch this. Completely brilliant. Thank you
- laura x
David got it absolutely right.
- Pete
Mr. Rothman provides a fine model for avoiding ad hominem attacks while being constructively critical. Bravo.
- Evil Librarian
Y'all are very kind- thanks for all the feedback. :)
- David Rothman (☤)
This was great. Part of me wonders, though, how honest and forthright some folks (maybe not you) would be with criticism of Library 101 if the AL hadn't been so snarky about it in the first place. But that doesn't detract from how much I enjoyed this. Thanks, David.
- Joan
I think that if AL hadn't been so snarky then ppl who found the video lame would probably have looked at the *intention* of the project - to work together to discuss essential skills for librarians given the technological/social climate- and put their energy there instead of discussing whether low blows and rudeness are appropriate professional skills.
- Kathryn says love n peace
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Whatever your views, you have to realize that DR wants to suppress certain forms of expression, while LJ tries to find things to publish. Surely librarians believe in the LJ way. Ad Hominem comment is not new to librarianship. I remember when the gret Jesse Shera said the great Lawrence Clark Powell acted like "a butterfly in heat."
- John Berry
HAH! That's pretty funny, Mr. Berry. No, I don't want to suppress anything. Shera's comments were ATTRIBUTED TO HIM. I think you make your trade mag look even worse than it is by publishing nasty remarks from an unidentified author, that's all. Thanks, though, for trying to cast me as pro-censorship! That'll give a lot of people I know a really good chuckle. :)
- David Rothman (☤)
I just noticed something, John (may I call you John?): Did you seriously sign up for FriendFeed just to leave that one silly comment? http://friendfeed.com/johnber...
- David Rothman (☤)
One last thought. John Berry wrote that "LJ tries to find things to publish." Try harder, dude. There's LOTS of great writing you could've decided to publish- but in order to get as many clicks as possible, you went for the lowest common denominator: pseudonymous nastiness.
- David Rothman (☤)
Is that really John Berry? Or is there a sock puppet among us?
- Katy S
Katy++. JBerry isn't the hit-and-run type, I don't think; he ought to know better by now.
- D0r0th34
I'd like to think that the real John Barry recognizes the difference between solid criticism & suppression. I mean, that's a college freshman-level argument.
- josh neff, geek at large
Hehehe. Trying to find Berry's columns in the Wayback Machine or Google Cache on the "annoying librarian" from 2007, but it's all midget porn comments now.
- s t e v e
See Also… » Clueless faculty and uppity librarians - http://stevelawson.name/seealso...
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Looking at the recent articles from Inside Higher Ed that I first saw here on FF (the Syracuse storage kerfuffle and the "Reviving the Academic Library By Reducing It to a Warehouse" opinion piece), and offering advice for faculty and librarians.
- s t e v e
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I like this a lot. But. There's a well-known disconnect between what people DO and what they SAY THEY DO, especially when the question is values-laden. I'm quite willing to accept that people still browse physical stacks -- but I'm NOT willing to accept that only on the evidence that they say they do. Show me da numbers, please.
- D0r0th34
I'd like to see research on this, too. Hell, I'd like to *do* research on this. Part of the problem, though, is that it is so subjective. What is a "good" number of people browsing? How many person-hours? How many browses per stroll?
- s t e v e
I think this could be one of those cases where we look outside library and perhaps even academic for the best way to do a survey/study and talk to business that have succeeded. what is it they do that lets them know what the customer wants. i think they do that aspect a little bit better than academia sometimes
- Sir Shuping
I left a comment on the post (I know, I'm such a Luddite). As to Dorothea's comment: It's hard to demonstrate browsing numbers, 'cause most users (myself included) really do put the books back on the shelves. But, you know, if your key users are saying "We think X is important," it's worth listening even if they can't "prove" that they do X often enough to suit you.
- Walt Crawford
I left my comments on the blog, but I'll summarize: observe, observe, observe. Watch people in the field. Ask them questions at the point of contact.
- cecily
Cecily, I absolutely agree, and would like to do more of that. But I think it would still be a good start for those "libraries are turning into malls" profs to just ask a dozen students about how they use the library and take a walk through and observe informally what goes on in the evening. I'd like to set up a real study, but the average pissed-off prof could spare a half hour to do those two things.
- s t e v e
If your library is designed such that there are obvious passpoints (in my lib, the elevator lobbies), have a student sit there and do counts. It's a start.
- D0r0th34
Agreed, Steve. We all need to watch, and listen, and do it with open minds -- all of us, librarians and faculty. I had to take a step back after realizing that our faculty really don't *get* that we have 50,000 online periodicals to compensate for the 1000 that we canceled in print over the last 15 years. They just see the cancellations. I had to really stop myself from believing that...
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- Jenica
Dorothea, when we conducted focus groups recently about how students do research (and these were professionally proctored focus groups) the students, particularly in the humanities, overwhelmingly volunteered stacks browsing as a preferred method.
- Imitation lris
Okay. Now show me what they DO.
- D0r0th34
I'm having trouble understanding the rub, I think. Do you mean that unless we see them opening books and glancing at introductions, they aren't actually browsing?
- Imitation lris
No, the rub is that they've been told over and over again that Browsing Is A Good Thing, Good Students Browse Library Stacks, so if they're asked, they'll say they do that -- even when they haven't darkened the door of a library as long as they've been on campus. It doesn't matter who proctors the focus group, or how the question is worded. (Actually, that's not true. If you ask them "when was the last time you..." I believe some of the "pseudovirtue effect" goes away.)
- D0r0th34
Even there, though, we are in Annie Hall territory. "I browse the stacks all the time! At least once a semester!" "He never browses the stacks, like maybe once a semester."
- s t e v e
I guess to some degree, I don't give a damn how much they browse. If part of what they want in a library is a crapload of book stacks, let's put that on the table as something they want--for WHATEVER perverted reason--and decide together what else has to go so they can have the stacks.
- s t e v e
There are lots of unquantifiable things about the research process, which is why I think that overarching point about dialog between librarians and researchers is important -- and that both sides have to start with the assumption that what the other side says is true.
- Imitation lris
And, see, that's where we'll have to agree to disagree, Steve. I don't think it makes sense to maintain a largely-unused book warehouse just to give them a chance to feel virtuous and smart. If they're really-truly using it, fine, no worries. If not, there are better uses for resources IMO. (An interesting gedankenexperiment might be to announce that library stacks are going closed. If there's no similar uproar, that sez something about actual stacks usage and "browsing" behaviors.)
- D0r0th34
No, I think I have to agree with Steve here. Put it on the table for discussion. And then, make it clear the realities of what will have to be sacrificed in order to maintain the book warehouse. In that reality-based scenario, it would be both interesting and valuable to find out what the researcher really wanted -- do they want a warehouse MORE than they want the other services the...
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- Jenica
Steve didn't say "lets give them a crapload of stacks." He said "let's talk together about what it would mean to maintain that." Dialog and trust are important. Scare tactics and superiority, not so much.
- Imitation lris
Erm? I asked for DATA, Iris. Jenica, I'm a little dubious that the Neems of this world will sit tight long enough for an explanation of budget realities -- but you know more about that than I do.
- D0r0th34
And maybe here's one reason librarians get dismissed as irrelevant by others: When librarians themselves refer to book collections as "book warehouses" and seem to be looking for any excuse to get rid of them. So the humanities scholars say "Screw you: You don't care about us" and the scientists never cared for the librarians anyway. Remember: One accountant in the provost's office can handle all the database subscriptions quite nicely.
- Walt Crawford
Sorry if that comes off a little strident, but I do wonder about the extent to which librarians assume that nobody other than librarians listens to them trashing library collections and traditional services...or responds negatively.
- Walt Crawford
Walt, my basement and second story stacks ARE a warehouse. We provide access to the materials, but no ancilliary services in that environment. I'm not ashamed of that. It's truth. The first floor is where we provide additional services beyond maintaining the book collection. I'm using casual language and not taking care with perceptions because I believed myself to be among friends. You...
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- Jenica
Walt, I've spent my entire career having the services I provide trashed, including (especially!) by other librarians. You went to the wrong librarian with that particular criticism. No sacred cows.
- D0r0th34
Dorothea, I don't know that I've got faculty quite like Neem, so my perspectives are probably a bit different. And in the current NYS budget reality... everyone's listening. So I suspect we have a moment in time in which some key colleagues can be brought to understand where we're coming from, and in which we need to be listening especially closely to their concerns as we make decisions about the future.
- Jenica
Yes, I think there is one sacred cow that I'm trying to deflate a little, and that's data. I'm all for it, but I also know that there are limitations, and that subjective experiences are not always quantifiable. Which brings me back to dialog and trust.
- Imitation lris
I suspect there will always be Neems out there, and I think we shouldn't waste a whole lot of time trying to appease them. I think the overall point is that we all--and it's apparent that this goes for intra-librarian relations, too--need to try and understand each other better and assume good faith on all sides.
- s t e v e
What we need is to set up wildlife trail monitors in the library: http://www.trailmaster.com/tm1550p... - catch 'em in the act. Or not.
- Wayne Loftus
Coolio, Jenica. I sure hope the Neems are rare, and I have every faith that you choose your moments well. Iris, subjectivity is okay, but observation is necessary to get beyond common human self-delusions, social white lies (including those told in hopes of supporting friendly librarians!), and suchlike. (I think it's handwashing where these studies are particularly salient... people...
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- D0r0th34
My colleagues have heard it a million times from me: RFID all students upon acceptance. ;-)
- Imitation lris
hee! and put keyloggers on all their computers! (no, of COURSE I'm not serious)
- D0r0th34
Hell with the students, chip the faculty. Find out how much work we _really_ do... :-)
- Cameron Neylon
Oh! And no more sinks!! People don't wash their hand anyway.
- Imitation lris
SO. How about browsing the hybrid print/online environment. Anyone have any success stories?
- s t e v e
Give it a year or two, Steve. I think the wide-angle catalog-plus mashup-like interfaces currently being built (including, for bias disclosure, at MPOW) have real potential.
- D0r0th34
also, Cecily++; go read her comment on Steve's blog if you haven't already. Ethnography ftw.
- D0r0th34
Thanks, Dorothea.
- cecily
Hey there, Wayne. *waves*
- marthalib
A lot of humanities and social science scholars who may not do a ton of research on a daily basis are very worried that a major way they encounter and seek information is being not only dissed but dismantled. This isn't about undergraduate behavior, it's a fear on the part of scholars (not at libraries like mine, but at research libraries) that the way they find things will disappear....
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- barbara fister
This quote I just happened across seems apropos in light of Barbara's most recent comment: :It takes courage to work in new ways. Particularly with your immediate colleagues and friends. Yet so needed in the pioneering and evolutionary time we live in when we must risk the letting go of the old to find our way to the added benefit of the new." - spotted here: http://tennesonwoolf.blogspot.com/2009...
- cecily
40 comments and we have yet to address one of the most important aspects of my post: the cartoons!
- s t e v e
the cartoons are awesome! Encore, encore!
- D0r0th34
Thank you. As you were.
- s t e v e
The cartoons were my favorite part. Although as I'm leaning towards looking at what academic librarians are forced to deal with, I appreciated the take you presented in the post as well.
- Derrick
in my new library of ~10,000 books, the stacks are closed. I see students hovering by the door to them, wondering if they can go in. (we offer to get books for them). I'm currently spending a lot of staff time getting the stacks ready for browsing / public access. We have a small, but meaningful collection of journo, photo, advertising books collocated, and I want students / fac to have access. I'm also doing a lot of weeding.
- Stephanie_Happy2010!
Closed stacks remind me of an engineering postgrad who couldn't find a book (it had been misshelved) so suggested that we gate all the stacks and then give card access to approved borrowers to their specific areas of interest. I didn't have the heart to point out that it was a 50/50 chance that it was a staff member who'd misshelved the book anyway...
- Deborah Fitchett
Late back to the party: Jenica: Your stack levels are browsable stacks with no internal services--certainly not unusual for academic libraries. (Of the nine tiers in the Doe library, at least when I was there, exactly one had any service points.) I dunno. Maybe over the past months/years, I've seen enough academic librarians turning up noses at public libraries *and* enough librarians...
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- Walt Crawford
Just strolled through the stacks (we only have about 95K books and serve 4-6K students) and there were 7 students either browsing or looking for something.
- John Dupuis
when we let one of our senior faculty back into our stacks to look for something she came out saying "wow! I didn't know you had all that stuff!" One of my student staffers said "I bet circulation would increase if we let students back into the stacks." True, this is anecdotal, and clearly my library has stayed relevant for some time without open stacks, but I'm sensing a lot of push to open my stacks up. (which I will).
- Stephanie_Happy2010!
Walt - honestly this is why when (if) I go back to working in a library I am thinking I will work in a public for the first time in my career. I'm really not liking a lot of the stuff that's happening in academic libraries of late - but maybe that's also because I didn't achieve all I wanted to when I worked in one. But on topic, my name is Fiona, and I love to browse the stacks.
- Fiona Bradley
(It's about me, so it's anecdotal.) As a undergrad, I preferred to browse the stacks. Yes, I could've done a catalog search. But I didn't know any fields well enough to know what to look for. Catalog to get the general area, then browsing for discovery. By browsing I found this odd little book about mid-19th century belief in psychosomatic skin markings (stars, etc.) that gave me the start to a big Scarlet Letter paper that impressed the lit lecturer.
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Actually, Betsy, I think when it's "about you" it's anecdotal; when it's "about me," it is timeless universal truth.
- s t e v e
Okay, then. It's universal truth.
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Simonizing to point out that there have been several interesting comments on the post itself.
- s t e v e
BTW there was a forum held this week in order to gather input from the University community on the future of SU's Bird Library. I attended and the room was packed with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members (including at least one department chair), and library staff. The Dean of Libraries was in the audience. The discussion was very lively. In general, people felt as if the library had not consulted the community on the changes it was making in regards to the use of library space.
- Jill Hurst-Wahl
We are have some space constraints on campus, so several wondered if space in other buildings could be used for some of the services that are currently provided in the library (e.g., study space, reference services, etc.). For more info, read http://media.www.dailyorange.com/media...
- Jill Hurst-Wahl
BTW one of the suggestions I made was holding part of new faculty orientation in the Library, specifically part of the progressive dinner. (Yup, I suggested eating in the library.) If faculty are suppose to suggest books, point out holes in the collection, etc., then let's find ways to get faculty in the building! Might as well start with new faculty.
- Jill Hurst-Wahl
Oh...one faculty member said that he tells his students to go to Cornell (one hour away) to do research! That definitely shows a lack of faith in the SU library.
- Jill Hurst-Wahl
Venn diagram diagram - http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2009...
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- marthalib
The Wikipedia Paradox - http://michaelnielsen.org/blog...
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I like the first part of the argument - any proof based on contradiction is always beautiful in it's devastating simplicity. There's probably some theorem from lattice theory that would be really useful here - something along the lines of The Answer is the LUB of some lattice of wikipedia articles. As the first part is necessary and sufficient to prove all subjects are admissible as...
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- Dan Hagon
Dan - publishing would make the non-notable Answer notable.
- Michael Nielsen
But you'd have to publish countably many articles (and organize conference series), one for each subject X as per whichever one is The Answer at any particular time (presumably articles formerly tagged as The Answer remain notable only because they were formerly tagged as such). Your blog post could only be taken as evidence of the notability of The Wikipedia Paradox not each arbitrary...
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- Dan Hagon
A grand gift to the town from the man you can’t see - The Boston Globe - http://www.boston.com/news...
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"Last month, Stone made good on his word, opening a soaring 17,000 square-foot library with a barrel-vaulted ceiling, 56 computers, and white oak ribbing,"
- Sir Shuping
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This is a library.
- Derrick
That's really lovely!
- Katy S
that IS nice -- it feels like an update of European library-building styles, like the one I spoke in at Edinburgh.
- D0r0th34
Great story.
- s t e v e
Yes, thanks for posting this. And I love the barrel ceiling for the former barrel making town.
- laura x
my favorite blog posts are the ones that come from random moments of inspiration rather than thoughtful planning.
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A Response to Stephen Abram and SirsiDynix - http://loomware.typepad.com/loomwar...
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hah! give 'im hell, Mark!
- D0r0th34
Love this: "This messy, difficult thing is called innovation, and while it can cause angst for those who prefer stable dysfunctionality,"
- Polly Potter
I am eagerly awaiting Stephen's reply. I love ping pong!
- mita
Is some clever person out there compiling a list of all the responses? 'Cause I was just thinking I should do that, but perhaps someone has already started.
- laura x
Code4Lib is: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index...
- Imitation lris
See, I *knew* someone would be on top of this. Or several someones. Thanks!
- laura x
Finally, a comment from an AL fan! http://davidrothman.net/2009...
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Vlogging: ‘Library 101′ and the AL - http://davidrothman.net/2009...
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I have it on good authority that Michael Porter is the Annoyed Librarian. The back and forth is just to generate more hype for his AL blog and Library 101. The brilliance of such a move is brilliant.
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very Jekyll and Hyde
- marthalib
It occurs to me (not for the first - or probably last - time) that while I'm sitting here taking in your interesting words and pictures, that I'm not getting anything done. I'm not writing anything. I'm not making lunch for tomorrow. I'm not spending time with my family. I'm not getting ready for work tomorrow.
Walt Crawford, Cheryl, Imitation lris and 7 other people liked this
And while I *like* reading your interesting words and looking at your pretty pictures, they create a big ol' sink hole of time (SEEEE... Master Of The OBVIOUS over here)... So I'm signing off for a bit. I'll be around after a bit. But not tonight. And probably not tomorrow either.
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Remember what I suggested to you, Barry. Find a way to incorporate it into your art. Then you can have the best of both worlds :)
- Kamilah Gill
<3
- pea
Understood and good for you, Bubba. Do what you need to do.
- Cheryl
So true. *Sigh*.
- s t e v e
maybe I'll wear my old Blogger sweatshirt and tell everyone I'm dressed up as a dead technology.
Jàson Puçkett, Jenny Levine, Walt Crawford and 2 other people liked this
Ha!
- Laura H.
open argument 101 - http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom...
Catherine Pellegrino, Cameron Neylon, Kathryn says love n peace and 8 other people liked this
Laura, one thing I like about this post and love about your writing in general is that you write like an essayist and not like a PR flack. You admit and expose ambiguities and uncertainties and don't always try and wrap them up in a neat package or position.
- s t e v e
Stephen Abram just commented on the post, if anyone's curious.
- laura x
Why yes it's 3:05pm EST and I am on my couch drinking beer. CANCER FREE, BITCHEZ!!!!!!!!
teh Dork Knight aka Kenny, Cliff, Lynda Dmoch and 113 other people liked this
HELLZ YEAH!!!
- Nikki D.
YEAYYYYYY
- Shevonne
YAY!!!!!
- Spidra Webster
Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Katy S
*swipes hand across forehead in relief* This is great news, MC.
- Rochelle Rochelle
woohoo!!!
- ~Courtney F.
HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wonderful
- Abigail
awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wonderful news
- Sir Shuping
HELLZ TO THE YEAH!
- holly
Hooray!
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Yay!
- Sarah G.
wonderful news, darling girl. <3 to infinity.
- pea
Yay!!!!!!
- Rachel Walden
awesome!!!!! have one for me.
- Free?
YEAH BEER! Oh, and the other thing too. (Whew!)
- s t e v e
WOOHOO!!!!
- Imitation lris
KICKAZZ!!!!
- JA Castillo
HoooooRay! Have a beer for me :D
- Shannon
thanks y'all. i may have also opened the halloween candy....
- Mary Carmen
HELLLLL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
- Kendra <3 Three Lions
Awesome!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
So so so so happy for you Mary!! <3
- Charlotte M
from iPhone
CONGRATS !!!!
- johnpiercy
Beer + Halloween candy = barfing without the cancer treatment.
- s t e v e
Im gonna try to keep the barfing to a minimum
- Mary Carmen
Woo-hoo!!!
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Great news!
- Admiral Anika
Yay!!!!!
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Congrats. Cheers. *raises a quality keg*
- Julian
*CHEERS* I'll have a beer with you! That's awesome!
- tab thinks you're awesome
beer? break out champagne!
- Ken Gidley
w00t!
- Steven Perez
YYYyaaaayyyy!!!
- Holly Rae
YES!!! :D
- Joe Silence
:D DYSP! Er - I mean - YESSSSSSSSS!
- WorldofHiglet
Woo-hoo!
- cecily
sweet bippy!!!!
- jambina
Yay!
- adf
congrats
- Marissa
Wooooooooo to the motherflippin' HOOOOOOOOOO!!!! (and *nosetaps* from the kittehz)
- vicster is...
FUCK YEAH! :) :) :)
- josh neff, geek at large
I cannot like this any more than I do. So happy for you MC.
- ♫Geek in the 410♫
Thanks, y'all. Mo, we need a LOVE button.
- Mary Carmen
+1 for need of "love" button, & congrads
- chaz2b
Wooo! Woooo!
- Stephen Francoeur
HURRAY!!!
- Jennifer Dittrich
Awesome!
- JSNFLMNG
Cool. Really cool.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
WOOHOOOOO!!!!!
- Nurse Katie
RAWK!!!!
- Laura B.
Nakachi, you just made me smile SO BIG!!!!!!
- Mary Carmen
*smooches*
- nakachi
Booyah!
- Louis Simoneau
Awesome!
- Michelle Martinez
see cancer free really is sexy *cheers* love ;)
- Scott
Yay! And Griffey actually cheered. :)
- Jenica
Tell Griffey I said, "HAI!"
- Mary Carmen
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..... *takes deep breath*.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
yay!!!
- Katie
Fucking marvellous!
- Timothy Griffin
kızz elekçi, markası ne o biranın yoksa ülker maltana mı :D
- şafak O
Barry, are you excited????? PARTY TIME!
- Mary Carmen
\m/ >.< \m/
- Johnny Worthington
*swoons at being one of MC's bitchez*
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
I'M GOING TO BE LATE FOR THE WAIF'S PIANO LESSON FOR CELEBRATING!!!!! CATCH Y'ALL IN A MINNIT.... *dashes like a sumbitch*
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Great news. Drinking one to your continued health.
- Kyle Hebert
Send me a beer :-)
- ★ Soner Gönül
OMG! That is fantastic! That is the best news I've heard since Reed was born! Doing a happy dance around my office now.
- Meredith
great news. :-)
- Stephanie_Happy2010!
WOOT!!!
- Mary Carmen
I like the way my masked mexican wrestlers painting looks in the background.
- Mary Carmen
So cool! Finally, a shred of good news on an otherwise dismal day!!! <3
- Bren -- feeling merry
from iPhone
I like your scarf. That color is fantastico.
- Ayşe E.
Woo to the mudderfuggin Hoo! That's awesome to hear! I'll raise a frosty beverage in you honor as soon as I get home!
- Morgan Haley
It's definitely Miller time. Woot!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Thanks, y'all. KEGGER!!!!!!!!
- Mary Carmen
I should have said: QUICK! BRING ME A MAN TO KISS!!!
- Mary Carmen
Like the call made to Moe's Tavern....'Hey Fellas! I'm looking for Amanda Hugginkiss!"
- Morgan Haley
A MAN DA HUG N KISS
- Mary Carmen
Awesome post :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Congratulations!
- Amy℠
*high five* Mary! TAKE THAT CANCER!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from Android
*hugh five* Sean
- Mary Carmen
It makes me very happy that when cancer darkens her door, Mary assrapes it and sends it home crying. It's a Machiavellian way to do battle. #nomercyforcancer
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
Yes!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Word.
- Greg Schwartz
Let's put on our man-trapping outfits and hit the streets, sugar.
- Derrick
The pictorial would be scandalous!!!!
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Ooooo, D. LETS GO!!!!!!
- Mary Carmen
I can't wait to see the HOT shoes!
- Katy S
SCANDALOUS!!!!!!!!!
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!
- Call me Bronco
That's the best news I've heard all day!
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Thanks, y'all. I have had half a bottle of wine in celebration and now I would like to make with the smooching!
- Mary Carmen
sorry for the tardy "HELLZ YA!" - but ... HELLZ YA!
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
*calls for stunt double... no non-Mrs. Schmoopy smooching allowed*
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Barry, If I don't get real dimples, I don't want 'em!
- Mary Carmen
*queues up in Barry's place*
- Steven Perez
from IM
*le sigh*
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
HELLZ YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Mellissa Claus
*happy dance* WOOO!
- Carmen
YAY!
- Tracy Benham
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woooooooo hooooooooooooo!
- βℜ∀ñÐi
Awesome!
- Lynda Dmoch
Bumped for cuteness.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
404 (I think we're lost...) - http://stevelawson.name/asdf
Walt Crawford, Liam Sullivan, Catherine Pellegrino and 5 other people liked this
My new 404 for my site.
- s t e v e
from Bookmarklet
Awesome.
- josh neff, geek at large
I'm as dark and bitter as yesterday's leftover coffee.
bob, Steven Perez, Bobbi Newman and 3 other people liked this
And after my grumpiness today, your comment lifted my spirits a little. Odd, that.
- Walt Crawford
*bumping for my own amusement*
- Laura B.
Last night I asked and she said "Yes!" Soon I shall be Mr. Sara Quinn Thompson. We are engaged! :D.
John Dupuis, Emma, Haggis (Sean Loyless) and 24 other people liked this
That would be Librarienne to you all here in friendfeed http://friendfeed.com/librari...
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Congratulations!
- Jenica
Thanks, Jenica!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Congratulations! :)
- Laura B.
Thanks, LB and Jill!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Congratulations!
- Stephen Francoeur
congrats!
- Sir Shuping
Congratulations! What wonderful news. I wish you both a lifetime of happiness together.
- Meredith
Thanks, Stephen, Sir Shuping and Meredith!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
I'm very happy for you both.
- s t e v e
THAT'S AWESOME!
- Christina Pikas
Thanks, Steve and Christina!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Yay! Congrats to both of you!
- Kårín Dalzĭel
Congrats.
- Walt Crawford
Thanks, Walt!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
By the by everyone, Sara is not ignoring anybody but is involved in meetings & such all day with the Mortenson Associates so is mostly offline.
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Congratulations!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Thanks, Karin and Mark!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Congratulations!
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Thanks, Betsy!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Congrats, Mark. Good stuff.
- Greg Schwartz
Thanks, Greg! And if I missed thanking anyone I am sorry; not intentional. Thank you, all!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
congratulations to you both!!!
- Stephanie_Happy2010!
Thanks, Stephanie!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
Congratulations, Mark!
- Emma
Thanks, Emma!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
My best to you both!
- laura x
Thanks, Laura!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
My biggest birthday present: @mrlindner asked a question and I said "yes". :-)
Charlotte M, Ayşe E., Mark "DerBingle" J and 9 other people liked this
Congratulations!
- Laura B.
Congratulations!
- Stephen Francoeur
Congrats
- Walt Crawford
Congrats!
- Meredith
Congratulations and Felicitations (and such!)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Thank you, everyone! Don't know the date or location yet, but we are happily figuring all that out.
- Librarienne
It is reprehensible for information professionals not to be hyperbolic. #joeydigits
marthalib, Liam Sullivan, ǎňňǎ and 16 other people liked this
I love you, Steve Lawson.
- josh neff, geek at large
It would be reprehensible for you not to, Josh. (Love you too, dude.)
- s t e v e
I share the Lawson love.
- Louise Alcorn
I also love teh Lawson.
- David Rothman (☤)
Thanks, guys.
- s t e v e
Can I be parabolic?
- Joe
@libraryfuture you "ruffled feathers", as you put it, because it was an incredibly simplistic and insulting statement.
Jeff Scott, D0r0th34, Christina Pikas and 5 other people liked this
you tell 'em!
- D0r0th34
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