Archive for August, 2006

Cites & Insights 6:10 available

Posted in Cites & Insights on August 9th, 2006

Cites & Insights 6:10, August 2006 is now available for downloading–from citesandinsights.info, not cites.boisestate.edu.

The 30-page issue consists almost entirely of one big essay:

* Perspective: Looking at Liblogs: The Great Middle – a look at 213 library-person weblogs.

There’s also one little piece:

* Bibs & Blather – three brief items.

While each piece is also available as an HTML separate from the Cites & Insights home page, please don’t download the big essay if you’re planning to print it: You’ll use 49 pages instead of 30.

There will be a separate September issue, probably in September.

Dipping tentatively into Wikipedia

Posted in Cites & Insights on August 8th, 2006

So. I created a Wikipedia account (probably-unwisely using a fairly recognizable name) and made two Humongous Edits:

  • Changed the URL in the bibliography link to my “Library 2.0 and ‘Library 2.0′” issue so that it points to the new home for C&I. I may not be entirely happy with the current “summary” of my views on Library 2.0 as expressed in the article (it seems to be different each time I see it, but I don’t go there that often), but I didn’t change any text in the article. And probably won’t.
  • Added “for 2005-2006″ to “President of the American Library Association” in the article on Michael Gorman, since he doesn’t hold that office any more. (I started by preceding “President” with “Past,” but since that’s also a one-year office…)

I don’t anticipate starting to do lots of Wikipedia articles or edits. I have other outlets. But I thought I’d get my feet…well, moist may be the right word.

(On a more personal note: There’s still a brief article on Walt Crawford in the German Wikipedia–and I just changed to URLs in that article. There’s no such article in the English version, and I think that’s appropriate…)

[Oops: The preview sure didn’t show me that missing close-href! Sorry ’bout that.]

Non-English Libloggers: If you happen to read this blog…

Posted in Cites & Insights on August 1st, 2006

I can’t imagine why you would, but if you do, your English is clearly infinitely better than my other human languages. (Try as I might, and I’ve tried, I’m hopelessly monolingual, even though I’ve learned and written in quite a few different computer languages.)

I have kindly volunteers for most of the languages involved here (I’m not sure about Danish or Dutch). But if you happen to be the proprietor of one of these blogs, or know that person, or otherwise recognize some of the phrases below…well, I can use more than one opinion.

I could use responses within the next week; I’ve done the raw investigation (boy, have I done the raw investigation) and plan to write the article reasonably soon. Help will be credited…either add a comment or send me email at waltcrawford@gmail.com. Please be sure to link your translation to the original.

Here’s the list, including blog names, taglines/mottos, one or two post titles, and sometimes post categories:

French

affordance.info

Ce weblog traite de sujets ayant trait aux sciences de l’information.

GoogleZon : scÃ©nario du possible.

La guerre du stockage en ligne

CultureLibre.ca

Carnet Ã  propos du droit dâ€™auteur, dâ€™Internet etdes bibliothÃ¨ques par Olivier Charbonneau.

Droit dâ€™auteur et dÃ©ficiences visuelles.

Bandes dessinÃ©es Ã  propos du droit dâ€™auteur.

MarlÃ¨neâ€™s corner–well, she volunteered, so I’ll rely on her translation!

Vagabondages

Errances et flÃ¢neries au fil de mes reprÃ©sentations : un blog sur le monde de l’information et des bibliothÃ¨ques.

Une autre histoire de bibliothÃ¨ques..

Le jargon bibliothÃ©conomique.

Zaphir et lest technologies de lâ€™information

Blog sur les systÃ¨mes dâ€™information documentaires, les nouveautÃ©s informatiques et dâ€™autres curiositÃ©s.

Repositories.

Pause forcÃ©e!

German

Archivalia

Digitale Urkundenbilder.

Library Mistressâ€™s Place

FÃ¼r das eher derbe wienerische â€˜schleich diâ€™â€¦â€

medinfo weblog

Informationen aus Medizin, Bibliothek und Fachpresse.

Berufsprestige von Ã„rzten und Bibliothekaren.

Bibliotheken, Publikationswesen.

Text & Blog

Das Weblog von Markus Trapp.

CSS Tutorial in 10 Schritten.

artikel, literatur.

Swedish Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish [as noted by bloggers who speak the languages]

Bibliotekarens bibliotek

BÃ¥nn er lenger unna enn jeg trodde.

bibliotekarie

Bibliotekarie fokuserar pÃ¥ det man pysslar med pÃ¥ bibliotek, om det nu Ã¤r informationssÃ¶knig, kommunikation eller omvÃ¤rldsbevakning. FÃ¶r folk pÃ¥ bibliotek och andra. Biblioteket Ã¤r dÃ¤r du Ã¤r!

Dags att lÃ¤gga av.

BiblioteksinkÃ¶p

Den hÃ¤r bloggen var ursprungligen till fÃ¶r att beskriva och diskutera hur man kan arbeta med inkÃ¶p pÃ¥ ett mindre folkbibliotek. Nu har innehÃ¥llet breddats och bloggen handlar om allt som har anknytning till bibliotek.

Mattias BolkÃ©us Blom samlar pÃ¥ bibliotek

FÃ¶relÃ¤sare – jag?

Biblioteksrelaterat

en blogg dÃ¤r Malin och Ã…sa lagrar artiklar, notiser och fÃ¶reteelser om bibliotek i vid bemÃ¤rkelse.

Vi har hÃ¶rt det fÃ¶rut och vi sÃ¤ger det igen.

Update: Nunnor vs. bibliotekarier.

Biblog â€“ Bibliotek og IT

En pris til Biblog..

I disse kanontider….

bloggrik

Tips och trix om informationssÃ¶kning, applikationer, social software, bloggar och andra roligheter.

FeltÃ¤nkt?

En webblogg om bibliotekspedagogik.

Gymnasieelevers anvÃ¤ndning av Internet.

Informationskompetens och infÃ¤rgning.

Helenes hengekÃ¸ye

Spredte tanker om bibliotek, litteratur, teknologi og annet som opptar meg.

Nyttige sider om sÃ¸keverktÃ¸y.

4 Ã¥r.

internetBrus.com

Svensk blogg om sÃ¶ktjÃ¤nster och sÃ¶kning pÃ¥ Internet.

Gary Price intervjuad i Library Journal och Ask.com prisad av Mossberg.

BlÃ¤ddra pÃ¥ NÃ¤tet i kulturtidskrifter med tidningar.info.

InternetsÃ¶ktjÃ¤nster, Bloggar och bloggsÃ¶kning.

InternetsÃ¸gning

Tips og nyheder for folk som bruger internettet meget til at finde information. Fx bibliotekarer, journalister, undervisere og studerende.

1-2 ugers pause.

Computerspil â€“ ogsÃ¥ en del af internettet (del 4: Deltagerne og konklusion.

Teknikaliteter

En blogg frÃ¥n nÃ¥gra teknikbibliotekarier pÃ¥ Stockholms stadsbibliotek.

Vind fÃ¶r vÃ¥g – vilka Ã¤r framtidens energikÃ¤llor?

JÃ¤stbok (inte “gÃ¤stbok”!).

Danish

e-klumme

Alt det nyeste om biblioteker og teknologi i Danmark og Internationalt.

Er bibliotekarerne gode nok til at sÃ¸ge?

XML og Da Vinci.

Dutch

WoW! Wouter over het Web

Wow!ter. Blijf op de hoogte van de ontwikkelingen op het Web of over veranderingen in het informatielandschap van bibliotheek en mediatheek.

Leuk doorkijkje naar de methoden van het Zembla team.

Edubiblioblogosphere.

Spanish

Infogestores

BibliotecologÃ­a y gestiÃ³n de informaciÃ³n.

phpCollab: gestiÃ³n de proyectos online.

That’s it. If you send me your translation (please, no hoaxes!) within the next few days–let’s say by Sunday, August 6–I’ll credit you in the article unless you’d rather be anonymous.

A question, for whatever opinions people have: Why do the web translation engines (Babelfish and the Intertrans software) do such an awful job on these phrases? I’m guessing that there are three factors: 1. Blogs tend to be informal; 2 (related). Blogs tend to be idiomatic (I’m assuming other languages can be just as idiomatic as English); 3. Liblogs tend to have lots of library and internet jargon. Am I right? Comments?

Frederick G. Kilgour, RIP

Posted in ALA, Libraries, Speaking on August 1st, 2006

Dr. Kilgour, founder of OCLC (among other things), died yesterday. The obituary is here (that page also has a link to a forum where people can leave their own observations).

I was barely acquainted with Dr. Kilgour (and certainly never knew him nearly well enough to dream of calling him “Fred”). I’m part of the second generation of library automation; Dr. Kilgour was part of the first generation. (I was also nowhere near at the level of importance where I’d be rubbing elbows with Dr. Kilgour under normal circumstances!)

The only significant in-person memory I have is of the LITA President’s Program at the 1993 ALA Annual Conference. I’m sure it was 1993, because I was LITA President at the time, and the program celebrated LITA’s 25th anniversary by having three former LITA presidents speak–well, actually, they were all ISAD presidents (Information Science and Automation Division), because the name change to LITA didn’t happen that far back.

The speakers:

  • Steve Salmon, the very first president, 1966-67. [Sticklers will note that this means the 25th Anniversary program was a year late. Sticklers will be correct. These things happen.]
  • Barbara E. Markuson, 1979-1980.
  • Frederick Kilgour, 1973-1975, the only LITA / ISAD president ever to serve a two-year term (as I remember, this was because the person who would have been president when Dr. Kilgour was Vice President / President-elect became the division’s Executive Director instead).

In a poignant note, the VP when Kilgour was president, and president in 1975-76, was Henriette Avram, whose death shortly before this year’s ALA Annual Conference sparked tributes at the LITA 40th Anniversary Past President’s Breakfast.

I certainly met Dr. Kilgour at that point; I’m not sure whether I’d ever met him before. Meeting him was a pleasure and an honor.

Unfortunately, I don’t remember much about the speech. Due to medical and scheduling issues, the agreement was that speakers would only come up to the podium as they were speaking–but I was sitting on the podium, the lone occupant at a table, paying attention throughout the three speeches. And, of course, not taking notes. I do remember that Dr. Kilgour was warmly received (as were all three speakers).

The field will miss him.


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