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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Blake Carver, Proprietor of LISHost and LISNews
Nathan Flinchum, Roanoke Public Libraries
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Eric Sizemore, Champaign Public Library

Links to the show topics:

1. Libraries: Eliminate DRM! (DefectiveByDesign.org)

2. Parents’ shock as school takes thumb scans (Keighley News)

3. Harvard, Fair Harvard (madisonian.net)

4. Publishers consider dropping old standby: the paper catalog (Chicago Tribune)

5. We’re just here to say hi: terror squad (Sydney Morning Herald)

6. Community libraries enhancing democracy (The Daily Times)

7. Statement of International Cataloguing Principles - Invitation to worldwide review (IFLA)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Parents’ shock as school takes thumb scans
• Libraries: Eliminate DRM!
• Harvard, Fair Harvard
• Publishers consider dropping old standby: the paper catalog

And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:

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Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Steven Cohen
Connie Crosby, Leisure Girl
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Jason Griffey, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Rikhei Harris, Grand Valley State University
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Courtney Stephens, Belmont University

Links to the show topics:

1. Oh the Joys of Management and Directorship (Gather No Dust)

2. Free Little Brother for librarians, teachers, etc — a tipjar alternative for people who loved the free ebook (Boing Boing)

3. Your BIGWIG

4. FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF Challenge (EFF)
FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret ‘National Security Letter’, Loses (Wired)

5. Is this how we encourage people to contribute? (Information Wants To Be Free)

6. U.C. Berkeley student’s Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt (Mercury News)
Bestiaries, Lockdown, and Twitter (bavatuesdays)

7. Grassroots storytime (Open Stacks)

On the agenda, but out of time:
AP, newspapers fit print into iPhone (Marketplace)
Experimental Xerox Paper Erases Itself, Results In Temporary Documents On Reusable Paper (Xerox)
Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song (Social Sciences Research Network)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Your BIGWIG
• Is this how we encourage people to contribute?
• Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song
• Experimental Xerox Paper Erases Itself

And, of course, so much more. 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

Don’t forget that you can also call in for free using Gizmo Project.

Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

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 Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Karen Coombs, University of Houston Libraries
Connie Crosby, Leisure Girl
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Tim Keneipp, La Crosse Public Library
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Julie Strange, Maryland AskUsNow!

Links to the show topics:

1. Oregon continues to insist that its laws are copyrighted and can’t be published (Boing Boing)

2. Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime (Seattle Times)
Microsoft denies handing law enforcement ‘backdoor’ keys (Lamp)

3. Sorry But You Can’t Have It All (ACRLog)
Do I really want it all? (LISNews.org)
But What If I Don’t Want it All? (Academic Librarian)

4. Stepping into marketing (Open Stacks)

5. MARC, OPACs, and Podcasts (GutterType)

Submissions on the agenda that we didn’t get to:
Appraising the Deborah Jacobs revolution at Seattle libraries (Crosscut.com)
The Twitter Blacklist
Why we are the biggest obstacles to our own growth (Raganwald)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Nextgens and administratophobia
• Marketing libraries vs. marketing librarians
• Appraising the Deborah Jacobs revolution at Seattle libraries
• MARC, OPACs, and Podcasts

And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:

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You’ll find the most recent episode of our show here. Feedback, conversation, greetings, introductions or any other form of engagement welcome. Tell me something good (or bad or otherwise).

Update: If I use the ?feed=rss2 syntax instead of wp-rss2.php, it seems to work fine, so the Feedburner settings have been updated accordingly and you shouldn’t miss a thing. If anyone has any clue why this might be, I’d be interested in hearing from you.

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
David Bigwood, Lunar and Planetary Institute
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Mickey Coalwell, Northeast Kansas Library System
Connie Crosby, Leisure Girl
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. A moment about our new Facebook Page
A second moment about MyBlogLog

2. Library of Congress Subject Heading Suggestion Blog-a-Thon (Radical Reference)

3. Library Sues Its Friend (Courthouse News Service)

4. Creative Commons, Copyright, and the Murky Middle (Library Crunch)
Of Librarians, Photography, Copyright & Creative Commons (Travelin’ Librarian)

5. At LAPL, Proposed $1 Fee for Holds Appears Dead (Library Journal)

6. Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers (TechCrunch)
Free Britannica (Open Stacks)
Britannica Webshare (Pattern Recognition)

7. The new library fad: borrow a person (Times Online)

8. Librarians Urge Department of Education to Tag Library-Tech Instructors as ‘High Need’ (Chronicle of Higher Education)

9. The 5 People Who Make Me Hate the Public Library (Bookgasm)
The 5 Reasons I Love the Public Library (Bookgasm)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Library Sues Its Friend
• Creative Commons, Copyright, and the Murky Middle
• Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers
• The new library fad: borrow a person

And, of course, so much more. 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

Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

And have you joined the Facebook Page yet?

Now for the rest of the story:

As many readers of this blog (and listeners to the podcast) already know, I’ve had a Facebook group for this show almost as long as the show has been extant. I’ve sent weekly messages to the members of that group at the same time that I post my weekly reminders of upcoming shows on this blog.

Last week, I was compelled to try a newer option, known as a Facebook Page. These didn’t exist when I launched the group. It’s a little different in structure and has a bit more flexibility compared to a group page. For example, it was quite simple to add the MP3 app and the TalkShoe app right to the page, so that you can listen to the show or join the call right from there. That wasn’t possible (at least not obvious to me) with the group page.

The page been up for a few days now and, as of the time of this post, there are 38 fans of the show. Thanks to the early adopters. The “problem” is that there are currently 266 members of the Facebook group. And I just plain don’t want to maintain two presences for the show on Facebook. So, to be blunt, I’m asking and encouraging group members to switch over and become a fan via the Uncontrolled Vocabulary Facebook page.

For those of you who get annoyed with my weekly reminders showing up in your inbox, this is a no-brainer. Instead of an email, the show notices appear up as an unobtrusive update at the top right corner of your Facebook home page. A number of people have already expressed a preference for this.

For those of you who really like getting email reminders of the show, I encourage to sign up for email notifications from this blog using the form at the bottom of this post. [If you read this via RSS and yet for some reason would like email notices too, you may need to click through to the post itself to see the sign up form.] This will give you not only the reminders, but the actual episode posts as well (along with notices like this one).

I will continue to send out show reminders to the Facebook group for the next few weeks, while encouraging people to make the transition. I don’t expect to do that for long, unless a bunch of people tell me they like getting the Facebook email reminders.

I thank you in advance for your willingness to embrace change. If you have any thoughts, leave a comment on the blog or use the contact form.

Update 4/21/08 6:30 AM: It has come to my attention that it’s possible to ask Facebook to migrate members and content from a Facebook group to a Facebook page. At present, I do not plan on doing that, as I’d prefer to let you take whatever action you are comfortable with. Some people will stay part of both the group and the page, which is great. I’d never discourage that.

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A million thanks to Mary Carmen Chimato for taking over the show this week. As you’ll hear, she did a fantastic job in my stead.

On the call:

Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Anna Creech, University of Richmond
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. Response to the show and the greening of CiL from Jane Dysart
Comment from Jill O’Neill

2. Oregon: our laws are copyrighted and you can’t publish them (Boing Boing)
Related documents (Scribd)

3. Publishers Sue Georgia State on Digital Reading Matter (New York Times)

4. The state of libraries: Funding down, but gaming up as way to attract young people (International Herald Tribune)
Does Gaming Promote Reading? (The Shifted Librarian)
Chiming in On the Biggies (The Other Librarian)

5. War Declared on Library of Congress by Venezuela (Friends of Cuban Libraries)

6. Blogs May Be Rendered Obsolete by New Technology (Chronicle of Higher Education)
An argument against Shyftr and communities built around full-text RSS feeds (Online Media Cultist)

So I’ve enlisted the help of Mary Carmen Chimato, who you may remember as the host of Episode 7 and Episode 8. She’ll be handling the hosting duties tonight and I am immensely grateful for her willingness to step into this role at the last minute. So be nice to her. You’ll be in good hands.

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• War Declared on Library of Congress by Venezuela
• The state of libraries: Funding down, but gaming up as way to attract young people
• Blogs May Be Rendered Obsolete by New Technology
• Would robot librarians do better?

And, of course, so much more. 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

Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

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
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Sarah Cohen, Champlain College
Anna Creech, University of Richmond
Connie Crosby, Leisure Girl
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
David Free, ACRL
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

This episode was devoted exclusively to conversation about the recently completed Computers in Libraries 2008 conference.

Amongst the topics discussed:

Dominant themes and takeaways
Best presentations
The Story of My Profession (Pegasus Librarian)
Wi-fi access - Is spotty better than none at all?
Why this conference still works in light of the rise of the unconference
Suggestions for future conferences

Note: Post updated at 9:54 AM to include my homegirl, Sarah Cohen. So totally my bad.

I invite anyone who was there to join in the conversation, as well as anyone who might have questions for the attendees. Many of the regular participants were in attendance, many of whom had the privilege of meeting for the first time. I expect a lively conversation as we touch upon some of the highlights (and not-so-highlights) from this generally excellent conference.

We’ll resume with normal news-based discussion next week, after I’ve had a chance to recover from the conference and get back into the usual news-scouring behaviors that make such a show possible.

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Please note that we will be recording the show live next week on Thursday night next week, as I will be returning from Computers in Libraries at our regularly scheduled time. We may try to do something from D.C., but honestly, I doubt it.

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Jeff Humphrey, INCOLSA
David Rothman, Community General Hospital Medical Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Courtney Stephens, Belmont University

Links to the show topics:

1. Three to be arraigned in library bribery case (Sacbee.com)

2. Bonaventure donors seek accounting of $2 million gift (Buffalo News)

3. Guarding the borders (Caveat Lector)

4. Getting real: Libraries are missing books (Thingology)

5. Ten Dangerous Ideas (What if libraries…)

Some other submissions we didn’t get to:
Email archive to immortalise Australian life (ABCNews)
On Trying New Things (Pegasus Librarian)
Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing (Times Online)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Three arrested in kickback scheme involving Sacramento library
• Getting real: Libraries are missing books
• Guarding the borders
• Bonaventure donors seek accounting of $2 million gift

And, of course, so much more. 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

Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

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
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Connie Crosby, Leisure Girl
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Kerry Howell, Cleveland area librarian
David Rothman, Community General Hospital Medical Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. TN Library Association Criticizes Memphis Mayor for Hiring Nonlibrarian Leaders (Library Journal)
Memphis Mayor Announces Closings of Five Library Branches (AL Online)
Mayor Willie Herenton to Resign, Effective July 31st (Memphis Daily Flyer)
Herenton says he’ll stay put in mayor’s office if he doesn’t get city schools’ superintendent job (commercialappeal.com)

2. Library Sued For Restricting Internet Time (InformationWeek)

3. No MySpace, Facebook at Mishawaka Library (Tame the Web)

4. If it quacks like a librarian… (The Liminal Librarian)

5. Sexual content law irks booksellers (Indiana Star)
Full-text of the proposed legislation (pdf - in.gov)

6. Time to pass the Carnival torch (InfoSciPhi)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Goodbye, Mayor Herenton
• Library Sued For Restricting Internet Time
• No MySpace, Facebook at Mishawaka Library
• If it quacks like a librarian…

And, of course, so much more. 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

Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

As you’ll immediately notice, my design skills are pretty limited, although not bad for 1 AM. All the shirts are the same, with the Unvocab notebook logo on the front and a “No Censors No Shushers” message on the back, along with the site URL.* If you are feeling generous and are inclined to improve upon my work, drop me a line.

In case you’re wondering, all CafePress merch has been marked up exactly one dollar. Where does that dollar go? Well, in the spirit of transparency, I’ll admit that costs to run this show are pretty low with help from LISHost and TalkShoe. It would most likely help offset the costs of purchasing/renewing the four domains that support this site (.com, .net, .info and .org). If, for whatever reason, the store proves wildly popular, then I’d put any additional money into a better headset. But I’m no fool. I’ll be happy (and a bit surprised) if anyone besides me wants one enough to actually pay for it.

That said, if you want a shirt and want it in time for CiL, get your order in. I ordered last night and with economy shipping the expected delivery date is April 1st or 2nd.

I may also throw a Paypal donation box up on the blog, in the event that someone wants to support the show, but doesn’t really need a material incentive to do so. My sincerest thanks for your support of the show in whatever form it takes, whether you tell your friends, participate in the live show or just listen every week.

* Correction: The “Value T-shirt” does not have anything printed on the back.

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Connie Crosby, Leisure Girl
Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Michael Golrick, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library (Eau Claire, WI)
Emily Knox, The General Theological Seminary
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. Ryerson U. Won’t Expel Student Over Facebook Study Group (Chronicle of Higher Education)

2. Librarian fired after reporting porn incident (Monterey Herald)
UPDATE: Lindsay: None of cops’ business, library supervisor said (Visalia Times-Delta)
Whistleblowing, Ethics, and Internet Use (The Other Librarian)
Large Crowd Gathers to Support Fired Librarian (CBS47.tv)
Supervisors back library firing (Visalia Times-Delta)

3. Two sex books taken off Nampa Library shelves (2news.tv)

4. Court ruling limits employment drug testing (San Francisco Chronicle)

5. OverDrive Breaks the iPod Barrier for Downloadable Audio (Library Journal)

6. (not so) SWIFT - a look at a new conference tool (librarian.net)
Not Using Swift for Computers in Libraries (David Lee King)

7. Revenge of the Experts (Newsweek)

8. The Transparent Library: Cheers and Jeers (Library Journal)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Librarian fired after reporting porn incident
• Joy of Sex Books Relocated after Third Challenge
• Court ruling limits employment drug testing
• Is User-Generated Content Out?

And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:

1. Dial 1-724-444-7444

2. Enter the show ID: 38665

3. Guests: Dial 1#
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You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary

And here’s a link to the Uncontrolled Vocabulary page on Mahalo, as mentioned at the beginning of tonight’s show.

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Kerry Howell, Cleveland area librarian
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. Compromise found on BPL funds (Boston Globe)

2. Pull the plug on the library (Gainesville Sun)

3. Public libraries told to innovate or die out (Times Online)

4. Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal (WTVQ - Lexington, KY)

5. Student faces Facebook consequences (TheStar.com)

6. Gwinnett libraries to target porn site visitors (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

7. Newsweek outs Netflix-using public library (LISNews)
Sure, We’ve Got That! (Newsweek)

Submission we didn’t get to:
Library power struggle (The Windsor Star)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Public libraries told to innovate or die out
• Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
• Newsweek outs Netflix-using public library
• Student faces Facebook consequences

And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:

1. Dial 1-724-444-7444

2. Enter the show ID: 38665

3. TalkShoe members: Enter your 10-digit PIN
Guests: Dial 1#

Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Michelle McLean, Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. All Things Must Pass; Moving On From Ask.com (ResourceShelf)
Mahalo

2. Libraries Ban Sex Offenders (KOAT.com)

3. Fear of Internet Predators Largely Unfounded (Schneier on Security)
How the media can misrepresent the Web (rabble news)
Flint Waters responds to my rabble column about child porn and the media (Wayne’s Brain Dump)

4. The Tweet heard round the world (Citegeist)

5. Free download of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
Why free reading is important (Boing Boing)

6. Cory Doctorow: Put Not Your Faith In Ebook Readers (Locus Online)

7. NFAIS: social database mockup (walking paper)

Also, going to make another attempt to claim My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-ea82562cacfac95b194834b9001c68b4} and My Odeo Channel (odeo/447ffbde25a7cadb). Apologies.

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Ask.com cuts staff, including our own Gary Price
• Fear of Internet Predators Largely Unfounded
• Twitterhive reference service
• Why free reading is important

And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:

1. Dial 1-724-444-7444

2. Enter the show ID: 38665

3. TalkShoe members: Enter your 10-digit PIN
Guests: Dial 1#

Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

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We’ll resume our normal Wednesday night recording schedule next week.

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Connie Crosby, Leisure Girl
Michael Golrick, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library (Eau Claire, WI)
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Emily Knox, The General Theological Seminary
Michelle McLean, Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Courtney Stephens, Belmont University

Links to the show topics:

1. City gets a say on BPL trusts (Boston Globe, courtesy of librarian.net)
In Boston, Mayor and Librarian Clash Over Control (New York Times)
Better books at the library (Boston Globe)

2. Closed Book (Memphis Flyer)
Mayor firming up his team (Commercial Appeal)

3. Librarians demoted
Cost part of library demotions (Wausau Daily Herald)

4. ALA Legal Goons Bring Hammer Down on LITA-L (LISNews)
“Cease and Desist” message from LITA’s CEO to LITA-L (LITA Archives - There’s an anti-spammer thing, so you may need to click through twice.)

5. Face Value (Inside Higher Ed)

6. Random House Audio abandons audiobook DRM (Boing Boing)

7. Big Read or big waste? (LA Times, courtesy of Library Stuff)

Submissions we didn’t get to:

Will libraries disappear in 2019? (Trends in the Living Networks)