New Pub: “Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum”

I’ve got a piece in the latest issue (the first issue, really) of Research Library Issues (previously the ARL Bimonthly Report) covering the takeaway points from last October’s forum on e-science and the future of science librarianship. The PDF has embedded audio from presentations by Rick Luce, Liz Lyon, and Cliff Lynch (oooo…multimeeeedia…) – that’s [...]

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Indexed <3 Libraries

I always love how Jessica at Indexed makes complicated things simple – and often hilarious.  Today, Indexed takes on censorship, in a post entitled “Keep libraries free!”

Hear hear!

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“E-Science Talking Points for ARL Deans and Directors”…and you!

We just added a CC license to these ‘ere talking points (Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 3.0), so I thought I’d throw them up here in HTML, to complement the PDF available from ARL.  I hear they’re also being translated into Japanese!
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E-SCIENCE TALKING POINTS FOR ARL DEANS AND DIRECTORS
by Elisabeth Jones, University of Washington
with contributions from
Wendy Lougee, University of [...]

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Thanks, ACRL!

This piece by Barbara Fister, entitled “Libraries on Planet Google,” is the best rundown of the different opinions being expressed on the Google Book Settlement that I’ve seen so far.
Read it!

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Reinventing Science Librarianship, Day 2 – My Notes

Friday, October 17, 2008
Data Curation: Issues and Challenges (8:30-9:30 AM; Reactor Panel 9:30-10:15)
James Mullins (convener/moderator)
Liz Lyon (panelist)
Fran Berman (panelist)
Sayeed Choudhury (reactor)
Pam Bjornson (reactor) 
Intro (JM): [Missed due to computer issues.]
Liz Lyon:

How can libraries & librarians engage with science (science conceived broadly, as research)
Will give examples from the UK
Will not suggest robots to deal with the data, [...]

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Reinventing Science Librarianship, Day 1 – My Notes

Earlier this month, the Association for Research Libraries and the Coalition for Networked Information held a joint forum entitled “Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future,” in which I had the privilege of participating (I’m fairly certain I was the only graduate student in the room).
The schedule, proceedings, and a handout (PDF) containing a set of [...]

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Darn Right.

33. Old books are valuable.
But if the evolution of libraries grows to become an interactive meeting place for cultural events and the exchange of ideas, the preservation and exhibition of archival literary relics could be yet another facet to their importance (and, yes, intrigue). Indeed, old books are not only monetarily valuable, but they are [...]

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News of the Totally Friggin’ Rad

(Warning: extreme library geekiness ahead.)
According to this story in Information Today (via Library Link of the Day):
OCLC is going to be opening up full public searching of WorldCat!
(Official announcement here.)
I am breathless with anticipation.
Why is this so exciting? Well, here’s OCLC’s description of WorldCat:
WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by [...]

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Linkages

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the digitization symposium that Michigan held in March, and in fact went back and watched a bunch of the archived webcasts over the weekend. So it was interesting to note while scanning through my blogroll today that Tim O’Reilly has expanded points made in the keynote address [...]

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Speaking of there being too much going on…

I’m never going to get this paper written.

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