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- "This doesn't have anything to do with oil, does it?" said Peter Camejo in a dream I recently had, refusing to disclose his own position, which is contemptibly bloviating and anti-movement. Isn't it clear by now that the world is... |
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- Tony Blair to engage the British public in shaping Labour Party policy into the next election by... |
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- I will be editing an upcoming issue of "The Reference Librarian" that will focus on weblogs. The issue will cover all aspects of blogging, and how it can be applied to librarianship. I'd love hearing from foreign and non-traditional libraries and librarians. At some level papers should relate to libraries, whether directly or indirectly. This is a peer-reviewed scholarly (aka no pay) journal put out by Haworth Press. |
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- Great News (for job hunters) from Iowa, where they are reporting in the next 15 years 60 percent of public librarians will retire. In 2000, "Library Journal" magazine reported that as many as 40 percent of library directors will retire in nine years or less, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. |
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- Library Juice has just published some correspondence from this past May on Mitch Freedman's Better Salaries Initiative. Rory Litwin raised some critical questions about the whole better salaries movement, in the context of other professions and other countries, suggesting that we're not so badly paid after all and that librarians are motivated by more than money. Luis Acosta, Mark Hudson, and Mary Ann Meyers offered intelligent responses. |
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- Bibliofuture writes "The book selections for November are "Book Lust" by Nancy Pearl and "The Truth about Reference Librarians" by Will Manley. There is also a fiction recommendation titled "Souls in the Great Machine" that is about a post-apocolyptic world that is run by librarians. Additional details can be found at librariansbookclub.org" |
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- The Detroit News Says fed up with missing items, suburban libraries are turning up the heat on book deadbeats. They are getting tough on patrons who owe, in some cases, hundreds of dollars in missing and late materials. Borrowers who owe excessive fines at libraries in Shelby, Clinton and Macomb townships as well as Livonia, Rochester, Rochester Hills, Royal Oak, Plymouth, Sterling Heights, Utica, Belleville, Brighton, Dearborn, Redford Township, St. Clair Shores, Southgate and Allen Park are referred to a collection agency. A few intersting stats in this one as well, including 85 percent of library patrons return borrowed materials on time. |
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- misseli writes: "According to a press release issued Nov. 26, ALA's Allied Professional Association now has a head: Jenifer Grady has been appointed Director, effective December 22nd. From the release: |
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- Grumpy Librarian writes: "The Chronicle has an announcement for "fellowships to prepare librarians for careers in health-science libraries."" |
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- (SOURCE:The Sells Spout)- Chris sounds like a soul brother: somebody who admires and loves cool game graphics and realizes that the future of UIs is something more akin to games than today's UIs. QUOTEAnd there's no relief in sight! Avalon, by taking advantage of 3D hardware and displays that haven't even been invented yet, along with intrinsic support for every kind of media and animation that I'm familiar with, blows right by the limitations we've grown to know and love in Windows and web applications. |
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- TRENTON, N.J. - Former Irvington Mayor Sara Bost reported to a federal prison camp in West Virginia this week after losing a bid to remain free while she appealed her sentence on corruption charges. |
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- AMSTERDAM - In Paradiso wordt vanavond, op Wereld Aids Dag, Love Dance gehouden; een dancefeest als afsluiter van de actieweek rondom aids. De opbrengsten komen ten goede aan het Aids Fonds. Vele bekende dj's werken er belangeloos aan mee. |
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- "Kannibale von Rotenburg" bestreitet Mordvorwurf |
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- Slashdot Dec 2 2003 2:14AM ET... |
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- Telecoms.com Dec 2 2003 2:24AM ET... |
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- Telecoms.com Dec 2 2003 2:24AM ET... |
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- HUGIN Online Dec 2 2003 2:03AM ET... |
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- ABCNEWS.com Dec 2 2003 1:33AM ET... |
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- Budapest Business Journal Dec 2 2003 1:34AM ET... |
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- INCLUDE{"DocsDevTopicNote"} TablePlugin Development and Discussions Refactored out OlderTablePluginDevDiscussions Main.PeterThoeny 13 Aug 2002 Feedback from my ... |
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- Spain is holding a day of national mourning to mark the funerals of seven intelligence agents killed in Iraq. |
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- Following a 0.25% rise in the base interest rate from the Bank of England at the start of November, I got a letter from my bank this morning, letting me know they have upped their mortgage rate in response, but by 0.36%. Normally the banks simply pass on the change in the base rate to home owners, but mine seems to be pulling a swift one. |
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- Im Gegensatz zur Matrix III sind die Testbesucher und Kritiker anscheinend voll des Lobes für den dritten Teil der Herr der Ringe Trilogie: Artikel bei kino.de Artikel bei spiegel online |
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- MacScripter's AppleScript FAQ section has undergone a massive update. Julio J. Sancho (aka JJ) has re-organized the categories, updated the contents, and unified the FAQs overall appearance. Plus, JJ has added many important new AppleScript FAQs. MacScripter's AppleScript FAQ section is a comprehensive list of frequently asked questions based on a simple Q& |
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- "The US president's sudden visit to Iraq was a sign of the US fear of the Iraqi people," said Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi, whose country ... - www.indymedia. |
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- Predicting that the shrinkage of transistors can not go on indefinitely Intel Scientist are predicting that around 2018 will see... |
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- The new Microsoft Hotmail service has now been activated. This means that worlds most popular web based email service has gotten a facelift and a whole bunch of new features, specially good anti-spam options.If you have a hotmail account, go check your... |
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- Is your brain Male or Female? Or even Inbetween? Simple test to find out... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - even though it's just bowing to customer pressure, microsoft is being surprisingly open by publishing these formats... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Telecoms.com Dec 2 2003 2:24AM ET... |
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- Chris Pirillo's Lockergnome Newsletters seem to have secured a deal to get a free copy of Active Words. I use this for a variety of tasks, mostly to help answer emails since I often get the same questions over and over. |
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- Chris Pirillo's Lockergnome Newsletters seem to have secured a deal to get a free copy of Active Words. I use this for a variety of tasks, mostly to help answer emails since I often get the same questions over and over. |
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- TAPPED's Nick Confessore points us to this important Norman Ornstein column that must not get lost in the holiday breaks many people took from political news. Ornstein wrote: The Medicare prescription drug vote -- three hours instead of 15 minutes,... |
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- (SOURCE:Zulu Layout Engine Combines XUL and Flash - MozillaZine Talkback via a comment on Scobleizer Radio Weblog)- Very cool! QUOTEDaniel Glazman wrote in to tell us about Zulu, a tool for creating Flash user interfaces using a modified version of XUL. The Zulu site features some tutorials, which include working examples. An alpha version of Zulu Web Edition is available for download. |
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- InternetNews: Small Businesses Embrace the Tablet PC. Cool! On the other hand, Paul Thurrott reports that Acer is complaining about Tablet PC sales. Well, let's work together on the Best Buy problem that I covered about a week ago (Best Buy only carries the Toshiba, so how is the Acer (or any other Tablet) supposed to get sold? |
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- InternetNews: Small Businesses Embrace the Tablet PC. Cool! On the other hand, Paul Thurrott reports that Acer is complaining about Tablet PC sales. Well, let's work together on the Best Buy problem that I covered about a week ago (Best Buy only carries the Toshiba, so how is the Acer (or any other Tablet) supposed to get sold? |
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- Last night I left Seattle to fly down to San Francisco for a week of high bandwidth time at OSAF. Since it was the end of Thanksgiving, I left the house one ferry early to allow for the possiblity of car traffic in and out of SeaTac. Said traffic never materialized and I was quite early for the flight. Then the flight was delayed due to weather in San Francisco. I had a leisurely dinner of airport food (if such can be called a dinner), and parked by an outlet at the gate, where I proceeded to setup my ssh config file to do the port forwarding necessary to get to my home IMAP server. |
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