Uncontrolled Vocabulary #65 - Charmingly Archaic
By Greg | December 10, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #65 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
The show will be on hiatus for the next three weeks, in celebration of the upcoming holidays. We will resume production on Wednesday, January 7th. Happy holidays to you and yours.
On the call:
Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Colleen Harris, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Michael Porter, WebJunction
David Rothman, Community General Hospital Medical Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Topics:
1. Internet Cool Tools for Physicians (Springer)
2. The LSW Zine: A Call for Rants, Manifestos, Articles, and Artwork (See Also…)
3. LITACamp: How much would you pay? (See Also…)
4. Washington Dad Foils Plan for School “Librateria” (AL Online)
Lakota scraps ‘librateria’ plan (Federal Way Mirror)
5. Sad State of Affairs in Higher Ed (Guardienne of the Tomes)
6. Search and find magazines on Google Book Search (Google Blog)
Google Magazines (Pattern Recognition)
7. Stronger Roles for Libraries as Local News Aggregators? (Stephen’s Lighthouse)
8. A brief discussion of the merits of joining ALA
Episode 65 tonight
By Greg | December 10, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #65 records tonight at 10 PM Eastern.
Topics for tonight’s show will probably include, but not be limited to:
- LITACamp: How much would you pay?
- Sad State of Affairs in Higher Ed
- Washington Dad Foils Plan for School “Librateria”
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Uncontrolled Vocabulary #64 - It can work. And it does here.
By Greg | December 3, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #64 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
On the call:
Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
David Fiander, University of Western Ontario
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Courtney Stephens, Belmont University
Topics:
1. ALA seeks $100 million in stimulus funding as U.S. libraries face critical cutbacks, closures (ALA press release)
Libraries want a bailout too (Sandusky Register)
2. Nashville Mayor Proposes Public Library Run School Libraries (Library Journal)
Library merger plan stuns officials (The Tennessean)
3. CBLDF To Serve As Special Consultant In PROTECT Act Manga Case (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund)
Neil Gaiman On The ‘Obscenity’ Of Manga Collector Christopher Handley’s Trial (MTV’s Splash Page)
4. SearchWiki: make search your own (Official Google Blog)
Google SearchWiki Must Die (InformationWeek)
5. 100 Librarians That Have Shaped the Profession (SLA)
Episode 64 tonight
By Greg | December 3, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #64 records tonight at 10 PM Eastern.
Topics for tonight’s show likely to include (although subject to change):
- Libraries want a bailout too
- Nashville Mayor Proposes Public Library Run School Libraries
- Neil Gaiman On The ‘Obscenity’ Of Manga Collector Christopher Handley’s Trial
To join the conversation:
1. Dial +1 724-444-7444
2. Enter the show ID: 38665
3. Guests: Dial 1#
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Uncontrolled Vocabulary #63 - AACR3, now with FRBR
By Greg | November 19, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #63 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
On the call:
Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Heron Stone
Topics:
1. ALA Grassroots Program Proposal (ALA)
2. Full draft of RDA (Library and Archives Canada)
3. List of content related to the OCLC Policy Change (wiki.code4lib.org)
Rule #1 for Surviving Paradigm Shifts: Don’t S**t Where You Eat (Stefano’s Linotype)
Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab (Raw Thought)
OCLC on the Run (Raw Thought)
Stop the OCLC powergrab! (Watchdog.net)
An open letter to the OCLC membership on the Worldcat Record Use policy (OCLC)
4. ALA Comments to FCC on E-rate: Audit Findings Point to Need for Simpler Program (District Dispatch)
5. D.C. Libraries: Not a Homeless Shelter, Especially in the West End (Washington City Paper)
Affluent white people can help themselves, thank you (Closed Stacks)
6. Whatever Happened to Library Blogs? (Pegasus Librarian)
Is the blog dead? (Bibliothekia)
Episode #63 tonight
By Greg | November 19, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #63 records tonight at 10 PM Eastern.
Topics for tonight’s show likely to include (although subject to change):
- More on the OCLC policy kerfuffle
- ALA Comments to FCC on E-rate: Audit Findings Point to Need for Simpler Program
- Whatever Happened to Library Blogs?
To join the conversation:
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Uncontrolled Vocabulary #62 - A Reliable Guide to Unicorns
By Greg | November 12, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #62 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
Many thanks to Aaron Dobbs for stepping in as the host tonight. It took a few minutes for folks to get talking tonight (please disregard the dead air), but once they got going, the hour flew by as usual.
On the call:
Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
David Fiander, University of Western Ontario
Laura Harris, Grand Valley State University
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Topics:
1. Summary of the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat® Records (OCLC)
OCLC’s proposed new guidelines for the transfer of bibliographic records (Terry’s Worklog)
OCLC Policy Re-released; Wiki shows changes. (Thing-ology Blog)
Notes on OCLC’s Updated Record Use Policy (Metalogue)
2. Planning Reference Extract
Using crowdsourced librarians to outsmart Google (ars technica)
Google, If Built By Librarians (ReadWriteWeb)
Too Late or Just Right? OCLC, I-Schools Announce Reference Extract Web Search Project (Library Journal)
3. Google Settles Suit Over Book-Scanning (New York Times)
4. Don’t Friend Me! (David Lee King)
5. The Library Student Bill of Rights - A TTW Guest Post by Char Booth (Tame The Web)
Guest host for tonight
By Greg | November 12, 2008
My allergy issues have developed into a full-blown cold, so I’m going to hand off hosting duties tonight to the distinguished gentleman from Shippensburg University, Mr. Aaron Dobbs. A veteran of the show, Mr. Dobbs’ hosting prowess can be heard on episode 20. My sincerest thanks go out to him for stepping up to the mic.
Episode 62 tonight
By Greg | November 12, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #62 records tonight at 10 PM Eastern.
Topics for tonight’s show likely to include (although subject to change):
- Summary of the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat® Records
- Google, If Built By Librarians
- Google Settles Suit Over Book-Scanning
- Don’t Friend Me!
To join the conversation:
1. Dial +1 724-444-7444
2. Enter the show ID: 38665
3. Guests: Dial 1#
TalkShoe members: Enter your 10-digit PIN
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Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.
Vacation, all I ever wanted
By Greg | November 3, 2008
This week I’ll be heading to New Orleans with the Mrs. to celebrate our 5th anniversary. So no show this week. I expect to record shows over the following two weeks (the 12th and 19th), before we break again for the Thanksgiving holiday here in the states. My apologies for the erratic recording schedule of late, but priorities are priorities. Thanks for sticking around.
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