http://www.blyberg.net A library-geek blog Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:34:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to Fuse #8 for this link. Apparently I'm being blocked by the Chinese: I've always wanted to subvert the dominant Chinese paradigm. http://www.blyberg.net/2007/03/12/im-a-threat-to-china/ Yesterday, I tendered my resignation at the Ann Arbor District Library. My last day of employment will be this Friday, the 23rd of February. To say that working at AADL was a honor would be an understatement. It is a fine, fine institution, filled with bright, intelligent, hardworking, ... http://www.blyberg.net/2007/02/20/moving-on/ I had a great chat with Jon Udell and Ed Vielmetti last week during a recorded podcast that Jon has made available on his new blog. Jon is a great podcaster--he has the ability to make a session feel like a conversation and less like an interview which makes ... http://www.blyberg.net/2007/02/04/chatting-with-jon-udell-and-ed-vielmetti/ Because there are so many bloggers out there whom I respect and whose work I thoroughly enjoy reading, I'm going to forgo listing a few and direct your attention to my blogroll on the right-hand side of my page. (RSS folks, you're outta luck, you'll just have to visit ... http://www.blyberg.net/2006/08/31/blog-day-2006-happy-happy-joy-joy/ I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the folks at the Darien Public Library in Connecticut. I believe we'll be hearing a lot more from and about them over the next couple years as their master plan begins to unfold and inflate. Like a number ... http://www.blyberg.net/2006/08/14/the-voice-of-darien/ What do you get when you cross a handful of highly talented individuals, an exciting new library movement, ALA and blogs? Well, the Library 2.0 Innovation Boot Camp, of course! I can't tell you how impressed I am at this course and the people who have, obviously, dedicated a great ... http://www.blyberg.net/2006/04/19/ala-wants-you-for-library-innovation/ We couldn't have asked for a better group of people at the 2006 Library Camp, last Friday. Many of the attendees were from in-state, but several logged a good number of travel hours to get here. It was for those, especially, that I was nervous, hoping that the ... http://www.blyberg.net/2006/04/17/library-camp-06-a-brain-dump/ Today begins the 2006 HigherEd BlogCon, "an online event focused on how new online communications technologies and social tools are changing Higher Education." Looking at the schedule for this month-long event, I'm seeing a lot of very interesting topics by some great speakers, er, writers. You'll notice that April 10-14 ... http://www.blyberg.net/2006/04/03/highered-blogcon-2006/ Back in February, I participated in a SirsiDynix Institute round table with Steven Abram, Michael Stephens and Michael Casey. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, but I came away with the impression that we'd barely scratched the surface on a number of questions Steven asked. Time was limited and ... http://www.blyberg.net/2006/03/22/find-the-edge-push-it/ I may not agree with everything Walt Crawford writes in the latest issue of Cites & Insights [pdf], but I can't argue that his points are not well reasoned and thoroughly documented. I came away from his article understanding (but still disagreeing) with his assertions. His latest article ... http://www.blyberg.net/2006/01/10/walt-crawfrord-ci-library-20/ I have to admit that getting this to work was born out of my own selfish motivations. I really wanted a way to get a jump on requesting some of the more popular items and thought, short of mugging someone in collection development, this would be the most fruitful ... http://www.blyberg.net/2005/12/01/aadl-rss-feeds-extended-to-all-catalog-searches/ Ed Vielmetti is a member of AADL's technology advisory board, and a great guy to go to when you need something beta tested. I've been bugging him a lot lately to test-fly a number of new web-site features, including the new RSS feeds for keyword searches in the catalog. There ... http://www.blyberg.net/2005/11/22/ed-vielmetti-shows-off-aadls-search-feeds/