Girlyman!

Tonight was a 3 part-harmony music night at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley! So much fun to see Girlyman (the link is to a SF Chronicle article) again this year, they played so much of their new music -- which is good, because I think Nate is getting kind of tired of the old stuff - so he's taking to speeding up the songs a bit when he's the lead vocalist. Overall they seem way more comfortable with the crowd, with lots of amazing banter - but I think the schedule is wearing on Nate's voice. Ty's voice is amazing, much stronger than last year, and she really can hold the group together with the strength and uniqueness of her voice. I can't wait for their new CD to come out, but it sounds like we'll have to wait about 6 more months.
Girlyman is one of the groups I found on Salon.com during my great effort to introduce new music into my life about 2 years ago. BI (Before ipod) - which was a dark time. I realized that I had listened to the same 3 CDs at work for 2 years. The CDs were good, but not THAT good. Salon used to have a daily download, which they still have, but it has changed a little. I haven't yet been able to set it up correctly on my Mac. It is clearly time to figure out how to download the free music for my ipod, because I don't want to turn into a 3 CD gal again.

I am very very very tired

Last night I was up until a little past four working on a paper that
I have been procrastinating about at work for over a month. And this
was the second draft. I finally had to give myself a threat - in the
form of an email - to get the damn thing done. I wrote to the person
waiting on me, "if you don't see a draft from me in your emailbox
tomorrow morning, you can send out my first draft. " Somehow, it
worked. I finished the paper before starting time on the east coast.
However, this threat did not prevent me from procrastinating all day
at work, into the evening, and up until 6 or 7 when I finally half-
heartedly started working on the paper.
It was a libraryland paper. All about library 2.0 concerns - though
as a private law library, we are still sitting way back in the
library 1.0 arena. I think I hate the topic of our backward portal,
our sorry attempts to wrest access to our library portal page from
IT, and actually have a voice in specifying content, putting our
thousands and thousands of dollars of resources front and center,
where they can actually do some good. But I digress. I really decided
to log in so that I could post a list. I decided that in my
exhausted state - the best idea was a list. It can be titled:
Interesting things about today in list form:
1. I called in sick
2. I was actually exhausted and thought I'd go back to bed, but
instead, I turned on my computer, logged in to work at 8 am, and
worked solidly until 1:00 pm.
3. I participated in a work conference call from home where I
attempted to explain why all librarians had received draft version 2
followed by draft version 1.
4. My colleague librarians could have cared less about which draft,
my justifications, et. cetera, they were simply relieved I wrote it
so that they did not have to.
5. I am broke, but I went clothes shopping this afternoon so that I
would not be tempted to take a nap and get myself off schedule.
6. I bought 3 FLAX tops and 1 pair of FLAX pants, and I should be
smacked by the great budget gods.
7. The FLAX items were on sale!
8. After an hour of shopping, I realized that I forgot to put money
in the meter, phew! no ticket. I put money in the meter and continued
shopping.
9. I got a ticket because my meter had expired.
10. I posted about 5 things on my delicious account today. I think 3
of them had to do with RSS.
11. I'm afraid this is a boring list, but the idea sounded really
great when I thought of it earlier.
12. I'm too tired to think of anything more, and I am now going to bed.
Goodnight!

Sure, give them what they want, we can call ourselves "conservative democrats" if that is what they need to hear! I guess..... but I've got this gag reflex when I hear the word "conservative" applied to me.

The main stream media (MSM) still has this boogy-man, bunker mentality - afraid of being attacked by the nasty Rovian/Limbaugh crew when they report the truth and are called un-American and un-patriotic. This election, the American people have shown them how to tell it like it is, despite the threats. Disagreement, telling the truth, protesting - all so Amercian and oh so patriotic. Now if the media could just realize that they are not under an oppressive regime any more, embrace their power and realize what their jobs really are... maybe we could have our constitutional democracy back?

Nevertheless, I laughed out loud at this article "We're All Conservatives Now" on dailykos by SusanG.

Especially this little bit:
"Yes, I'm a "conservative Democrat" and I agree with the upcoming agenda I've seen floating around here and there: oversight hearings on Iraq and spending, raising the minimum wage, nationalizing health insurance for everyone under 25 as Howard Dean suggested on The Daily Show, using skillful diplomacy as a first resort and military force as a last one, restoring the checks and balances of the Constitution, outlawing torture, re-legalizing habeas corpus. These are "conservative" ideas? Cool. I'm hinky with it. Call them what you like, just implement them."

And this bit:
"And please, don't catch on that every time you insist that "conservative Democrats" won, every time you couple the words, "conservative" and "Democrat," not only does an angel get its wings, some voter in Mississippi is getting the message that there is a natural home for conservatives in the Democratic Party. "

Oh, reading this was just as much fun as watching Steven Colbert do his bit to establish that there was no news of interest on Tuesday or Wednesday.....
Oh, the joy.

Election Night
All I can say is Wahooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Still holding out for the Dems in the Senate....

Other than a few races like Kleeb in Nebraska and Ford in Tennessee - things went pretty well. Thank goodness for DailyKos and TPM!!

I am so happy, it is like the fate of the free world was hanging in the balance and the American people came through in a big way! (Okay maybe I'm a little over the top, but really, not by much.)

Good Quote in article on EPA Library closings debacle

In an article on the EPA Library Closings from GovExec.com http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=35419&dcn=todaysnews, I found an awesome quote to add to my what's a library worth tags:

"The agency official said that level of public service is a significant shift from having access to a research librarian. <b>"It's a very different thing, to give the public access to a phone number for an expert ... rather than having a professional librarian assist you in tracking down obscure studies or journal articles that may provide you with a more in-depth discussion of those topics. It's not the same level of service."</b> " [emphasis added]

Good overall article on this issue. Crossing fingers that Democrats do well in today's election so that something can be done about this!

When attending a speaking engagement:
1. Bring a notebook and a pen
2. Do not hold anything that makes noise when you handle it.
3. If you need glasses, don't forget to wear them.

I'm sure I can expand on this list, but rule number one is an especially hard lesson. I attended my first lecture at the Commonwealth Club today: ELLEN BURSTYN who is touring her book Lessons in Becoming Myself. It was wonderful, a quick walk around the corner from work (unbelievably close!) and I was there. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring paper and pen, nor did I remember my glasses. It did allow me to concentrate on the words, which I hoped I would remember, but I don't have a photographic memory, so I'll have to wait for the podcast or the re-broadcast on PBS radio.
Her talk resonated with me though, she is on a spiritual quest as a Sufi ("seeker of truth") and I feel like I've somewhat spent my life on a sort of spiritual quest too. It was nice that the first mind-expanding "Ann Arbor Lifestyle" thing I did was focused around this topic.
There were quite a few things I wanted to remember, but only managed to write one thing down before it all drifted away. (Paraphrased!)

To change the people you attract, change your own vibrations - we resonate on a frequency - we attract those who resonate to the same frequency. If you are attracting the same types of people and you don't want to repeat the patterns, look back at yourself and ask "Why am I attracting this? - what about me do I need to change so I attract the types of people I need and want in my life?" And she asked her Sufi mentor how she was supposed to change her vibration - He said, you
change your vibration frequency through meditation, therapy, learning, and growing spiritually.

I'm drifting away here from tiredness. How did it get to be 1 in the morning? Ah well, more tomorrow.

Today was a fun day! The San Francisco Bay region chapter of SLA hosted a visit to the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa . Since my brother is such a huge fan and it was our birthday (no we are not twins, just one year apart) I decide to treat the whole crew! First off was a visit to the Archives and Research Center and a visit with the archivist. It was wonderful hearing about such an interesting job, she showed us a braille book with raised images and braille text, foreign translations from all over the world, the archival catalog, auction catalogs, boxes of letter, photo albums and more. One thing I liked was that she published a newsletter of reference questions and her answers for the museum staff and volunteers. I don't know if I could use that for our private law library, but it sure was interesting to see the kinds of questions and how comprehensive and amazing librarians (and archivists) are about answering questions. Yay for us! One of our best and most important skills. (That is why I believe we DO belong in the arena of creating content based on compiling all this research.)

Such fun. An ice rink, cozy warm puppy cafe (serving good food!) and a pretty great gift shop featuring all things Snoopy and Charlie Brown. We all decided to stay in Santa Rosa the night, so tomorrow my brother goes back to the ice rink with his family to participate in the Sunday morning parents and kids skate. It will be a hoot. I've got to go in search of Peets, but after I feed my caffeine addiction, I'll be raring to go.

I was a very irritating sister and auntie today, having received a new canon digital camera for my birthday. I absolutely was a kid with a new toy, and I can't wait to explore flickr and all the way cool things librarians and others are doing with digital images, blogs, wikis, flickr, etc. Of course, what does someone like me need with more ways to waste time???!

Had a party tonight at the hotel with cake and a few presents. I'm now a proud member of the Commonwealth Club in SF. I am so excited. More in my plan to re-create my AnnArbor Lifestyle. As outlined in a previous post.
So, in the hotel room, eating cake, taking pictures and..... there is nothing like watching and listening to my nieces play with their new peanuts baseball figurine set. The entire crew of peanuts characters with baseball accoutrements. (Bases, caps, bats, mitts, balls, etc., ) Pretend make-believe baseball with a six-year-old and a 4-year-old who have never played baseball in their lives. But heck, that is the toy they wanted! Nothing to it, they can handle imaginary worlds of princesses, pirates, fluffy dogs, stuffed animals of all breeds, shapes, colors and sizes - seamlessly - what's a little Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown and baseball thrown in?

What a fun day! It made me realize I really really really need to get out more, and it doesn't have to be anything huge - a small museum, and new town, etc. I find it all interesting and stimulating.

However, it is now past 1 am and I must get some sleep - or even Peet's won't be able to rescue me in the morning.

This is scary stuff, not burning books exactly, but close......

I've been reading about this issue for a while. Signed a petition a few weeks ago, and now Salon has written an article about the closing of the EPA libraries at http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/10/30/epa_libraries/index.html The closures were all very quick, hush hush, and now there is a GAO investigation. Expect nothing to be done unless there is a change in the make-up of the Congress and the Senate. Evidently there was also a show on NPR about this: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2006/Sep/hour2_092906.html.

 

 

Ideas for a Legal research Texas Hold'em "Poker" game. Inspiration
from Elizabeth Lane Lawley's IL2006 Keynote : Tombstone Hold-em "Players' hands
comprise tombstone-shaped cards: those with rounded tops are hearts;
with pointed tops, spades; with flat tops, diamonds; and with statues
on top, clubs.

Face values depend on the number of people buried at a plot: Stones
with two people are jacks; with three, queens; and with four or more,
kings. If a single person is buried, the card's number is based on
the last digit of the year the person died. "So a gal who died in
1898? She's an 8," explained the game's instructions. "A kid who died
in 1951? He's an ace." "

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Legal Hold'em

?Face Cards citations in Treatises: annotations ?:

Kings - Number of cases cited over 4
Queens - Statute cites
Jacks - Regulations cited

Suites = Sources

Clubs - Treatises - Section or chapter last digit is the number:
Section 3456 of Wigmore is a 6 of clubs.
Diamonds - Regulations (CFR or FR) Title digit or second digit of
title. [i.e. 21 CFR is an ace of Diamonds]
Hearts - Statutes - Title digit or second digit of title. [i.e. 29
USCA is a 9 of Hearts]
Spades - Cases Last number in page citation for case [i.e. 345 US 54
is a 4 of spades]

What will make this relevant as a lesson on legal research??? having
a question, finding a hand from legal research sources? Find part of
the answer in a case - is a King, Find statute relevant, queen, Find
Regulation - Jack, all answers in Treatise, ace?

Then have to show hand i.e. research back-up and whoever has the
highest hand, wins?

Will have to play this to see if it is possible.

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Real Rules of Texas Hold'em

In hold'em, players receive two downcards as their personal hand
(holecards), after which there is a round of betting. Three
boardcards are turned simultaneously (called the "flop") and another
round of betting occurs. The next two boardcards are turned one at a
time, with a round of betting after each card. The boardcards are
community cards, and a player may use any five-card combination from
among the board and personal cards. A player may even use all of the
boardcards and no personal cards to form a hand (play the board). A
dealer button is used. The usual structure is to use two blinds, but
it is possible to play the game with one blind, multiple blinds, an
ante, or combination of blinds plus an ante.

Object: The best possible five card poker hand, using any combination
of hole cards and community cards, wins the pot.

Betting Rounds
1.The dealer deals each player their own two cards face-down (pocket
cards)
2.1st betting round
3.The dealer burns a card then turns over three community cards face-up
(the flop)
4.2nd betting round
5.The dealer burns another card then turns over 1 more community card
(the turn,4th street)
6.3rd betting round
7.The dealer burns another card then turns over 1 final community
card (the river,5th street )
8.Last betting round
9.Showdown (Every remaining player shows hand with bettor showing first)

All remaining players must use one of the following choices at the
showdown:

1. Two pocket cards & three boardcards
2. One pocket card & four boardcards
3. No pocket cards & five boardcards (called playing the board)

Texas Hold'em Rules

1. If the first holecard dealt is exposed, a misdeal results. The
dealer will retrieve the card, reshuffle, and recut the cards. If any
other holecard is exposed due to a dealer error, the deal continues.
The exposed card may not be kept. After completing the hand, the
dealer replaces the card with the top card on the deck, and the
exposed card is then used for the burncard. If more than one holecard
is exposed, this is a misdeal and there must be a redeal.

2. If the flop contains too many cards, it must be redealt. (This
applies even if it were possible to know which card was the extra one.)

3. If the flop needs to be redealt because the cards were prematurely
flopped before the betting was complete, or the flop contained too
many cards, the boardcards are mixed with the remainder of the deck.
The burncard remains on the table. After shuffling, the dealer cuts
the deck and deals a new flop without burning a card. [See –
Explanations, discussion #2, for more information on this rule.]

4. If the dealer turns the fourth card on the board before the
betting round is complete, the card is taken out of play for that
round, even if subsequent players elect to fold. The betting is then
completed. The dealer burns and turns what would have been the fifth
card in the fourth card's place. After this round of betting, the
dealer reshuffles the deck, including the card that was taken out of
play, but not including the burncards or discards. The dealer then
cuts the deck and turns the final card without burning a card. If the
fifth card is turned up prematurely, the deck is reshuffled and dealt
in the same manner. [See – Explanations, discussion #2, for more
information on this rule.]

5. If the dealer mistakenly deals the first player an extra card
(after all players have received their starting hands), the card will
be returned to the deck and used for the burncard. If the dealer
mistakenly deals more than one extra card, it is a misdeal.

6. You must declare that you are playing the board before you throw
your cards away; otherwise you relinquish all claim to the pot.

Rules provided by Bob Ciaffone via ROBERT'S RULES OF POKER

Internet Librarian 2006 is now over, and it is a good thing. I'm afraid my head was going to explode, and I didn't even attend all of the presentations. I'm sure I'll be processing all of the ideas and collective wisdom over the next few months.
The closing keynote presentation by Elizabeth Lane Lawley was brilliant, and I will do it no justice by the following: It was all about the gestalt of the conference which I will summarize as: Make learning like a game - Web 2.0 is about learning with the goal of fun and the prize of community.

The drive home was fine, bought a tape-deck ipod connector for my car so I could listen to my music and make the drive faster, however said connector thingy make a very loud rhythmic clicking noise. Kind of ruined the music because I had to turn it up really really loud to drown out the clicks. Bah.

Comparing Book Search Engines IL2006

Greg Notess IL2006

Okay, you can kind of tell I was getting tired & this blogging effort shows it. Nevertheless, it was an interesting look at the searching full-text books on Google, Amazon and Individual Publishers.

Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" - A9
Google Book Search
Open Content Alliance
Individual publishers initiatives
Open Web

look inside products ,,,

http://www.a9.com
uses boolean AND

http://www.amazon.com

search books on Amazon
uses proximity
Amazon Online Reader

search inside - full text
look inside - partial.... TOC and some excerpt (not fully searchable)

browse toc

Amazon Viewer - buy online book, can annotate,

Google books non-controversial scanned books "Google Book Search"
http://books.google.com

doesn't say publisher program vs. library program

1923 - present under copyright - link to find this link in a library

http://www.openlibrary.org
cool page turning cool book interface. Actually feel like you are in
a book

search phrase on open web - sometimes you turn up a copy

query:

intitle:"index of" "last modified size description" "parent directory"

national academies press
fulltext available online generating more book sales

Netlibrary, Ebrary, Elsevier, Gale, etc. ebook platform

the end.

Elizabeth Lane Lawley Closing IL2006

World of Warcraft
Galataea

Virtual worlds researchers... great group to play with...
terra nova blog
Michael Stephens

Gaming and Internet Librarian - new hot thing

Jane McGonigal : http://avantgame.blogspot.com/
Cory Ondrejka
OOF! (FOO (Friends of O'Reilly) Spelled backwards) O'Reilly Bootcamp

Reverse Scavenger hunt
your team gets 10 minutes to gather 10 items
then gets list of items
then gets 10 minutes to justify how these 10 things fit the item on
the list.

flikr - pictures of OOF!

of all the stuff, this is the experience they remember the most.

Games are a really powerful way to build an emotional connection
between people and place.

Werewolf or Villager?
All these techies and they were so engaged in game, that they don't want their computers.

Each person is given a card, werewolf, villager or seer
2 were wolfs
1 seer
rest are villagers

person in middle is running the game.

close eyes, hummmm so nobody can hear
werewolfs open eyes... werewolfs, pick somebody to kill agree without
words....
seer open eyes, seer open eyes, gamemaster points out who are the
werewolfs are... seer knows, but then all close eyes and all become villagers. Everyone tries to
pretend they are innocent villagers. (Not sure what point this had and how this game really worked, but it was evidently riveting and powerful - because they played for hours.)

What is a game? Many definitions, basically:

• goals and structure
• players make decision to manage resource through tokens in pursuit of a goal
• activity with some rules engaged in for an outcome

Learning 2.0 presentation was about learning as a game. free prizes, People will go out of their way for a free prize - the value not the point. People want stuff because it means they won, it means they won and are successful. So what are the incentives in your teaching?

Jane McGonigal She has made this her life's work - she is developing a whole new genre of games. Just finished her dissertation. Game called I love bees
Alternate reality game to market halo2.

Cruel 2 B Kind games help us to reclaim public spaces that have
fallen to disuse.

Rules: set up teams, each team given a weapon. Act of kindness. Compliment,
group cheer, etc. Each team also has a weakness. Kind act will knock
you out of a game. you only know that within a 3 mile area, people
have to play.
Side effect doing all these nice things -- how can you help people.

translate to the library as a game

Another game is: Tombstone hold'em poker

(Did not describe rules here, but is described by others... will have to wait for slides from this presentation...)

Much of the incentive for this translates to schools and libraries -

• Rules
  
• Guidelines
  
• Goal
  
• Prize

"context is king, not content" (Can't remember who was quoted here...)
It's about unfettered experience, emmersive experience we are
creating in library.

http://www.42entertainment.com/see.html

convergence of ideas

Casual (level 1)
Active (Level 2)
Enthusiastic (Level 3)

Fletcher Library Game Project
Bibliographic Gaming
Gaming in Libraries
game on:
games in
libraries

gaming in libraries on Google

MacArthur foundation Digital Media Learning & Education
spending 50 million on gaming and learning

Gaming and law community (?!)

blogs on this topic, meeting on topic of gaming in libraries, etc.....

sources of games?

Second life is not a game.

Access issues put barriers in - a problem for her.....

IL2006 Blogging and RSS

Feed2JS

Post to blog with java script paste. Allows you to post content
everywhere you pasted the JavaScript

Allows patrons to "subscribe" to your resource lists.

walternelson.com

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Karen Coombs U of Houston

Blogs for internal communications

Blogs for Service Points
people leave notes for each other, here's what is going on.....

IL2006 Wikis For Libraries

SJCPL
http://www.librfaryforlife.org/subjectguides/
m.kruppa@sjcpl.org

St. Joseph County Public Library
1996 subject guides were really cool - welcome to library here's a
bunch a places to go that is not in this library! Led patrons away
from the library instead of highlighting resources in-house.

KCPL subject guides - cool model, focused on library stuff, cool RSS
feeds
teen site a wiki!! The Hotlist should be a wiki!! so librarians
decided to create guides to emphasize what the library had to offer.

Homework help, all the things
http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Homework

have a sandbox server. play around - use for testing, not break things.

Don't call it a wiki because of the technophobes. Only refer to it as
the "subject guides"

Patrons can make comments

Circulation staff went crazy - created circulation policy manual

Fully collaborative and minimal training, couldn't break it...

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Chad Boeninger
Internet Librarian
A Wiki as a Research Guide
Ohio University Libraries
Reference Librarian

Used to have typical research guides, Long list of Stuff, etc., etc.,

It's the way we've always done it!

More room for content and nuggets - "nuggets of information literacy"
i.e. "this is coming from a company so there will be bias" Instead of
lecturing about information literacy

The Biz Wiki all keyword searchable, link related resources, non-
cataloger way of doing keyword to subject heading linkings
What is in it?
Key reference resources
Guides to common question
Definitions

Cheat the system and refer people to things that you can't get/do in
a catalog
Wiki's make excellent teaching tools. Replace handouts, easy to
update, always available to the patron...

Industry Research Basics - to Business School Grad Students, Teaching
them about the resources, things that might limit their access to
info. Since creation, hit 7,700 times, been hit many times after the
initial class. Allows students to come back to the resource later...

Marketing Assignment 379 - Link to resources to use....

Before the assignment - hit 852 times, 50 people in the class.

On the fly content -
email question
respond to patron
similar question again
use content of question to create wiki article
create wiki page - "import and export regulations" - 828
Media Wikis.... can see how often the page has been hit.......

Can see popular pages and how often they are hit,.

Challenges - getting others to contribute - in reality nobody really
contributes...

more content = more maintenance

maintaining organization and stgructure with growth of content?
difficult to see new content.

SPAM is real problem with fully open wiki - if anyone wants to edit,
they have to ask.

Extends the reach of the librarian - user needs info 24 hours a day
makes information and knowledge more accessible
contribution to the community.

WIKIS TAKE TIME!!!

Wiki can save time, though in the end and make you a better and more
effective librarian.

Don't be surprised if usage is different than expected. don't expect
to be cool because you have a wiki. - They do appreciate it.
Gather more measurable input. record usage of library resources....

Replaced reference blog with reference wiki. hosting by library puts
in center of learning community

boeninger@ohio.edu

RSS and JavaScript Cookbook: Rip, Mix, Burn
IL2006

Meredith Farkas
Paul R. Pival

I REALLY liked this presentation. So glad I wasn't scared away by the JavaScript part - it was actually, cool tools when you want to use JavaScripts but know no Java coding. Not only that, but the presentation was done on a wiki. I thought it was brilliant, despite the presentation hickups. How much you wanna bet this wiki has a second and third life?

RSS and JavaScript Cookbook Presentation Wiki : http://paulandmeredith.pbwiki.com/

tools all posted on the wiki....

Personal firewall - filtering through IT - as barrier, circumvent that personal firewall.
Levine's law - teaser . this page is built on the fly!!

New books outside source, view source javascript - pulled from outside source via javascript.
Collection of Webscripts - dynamically drawn on the page.

why important? traditional subject page:

• not often updated
• not easy to add content if you don't know html
• no field is static - so perhaps a static web page not the best tool for a subject guide

dynamic content lives elsewhere and pulled in to the page. Updated as content updated anywhere...

JavaScript
don't have to know how to use it to use it.... i.e. bookmarklets...

blinklist (bookmarking sites)

Podcasts screencasts, vodcasts

cutting and pasting and putting in what you are interested in...

Feed2JS most popular tool for syndicating stuff on a Website - free to use
You can install this on your own server...

feed2js : http://feed2js.org/

generates javascript - cut and paste into Webpage....

RSS to Javascript

Grazr : www.grazr.com

opml outlining format for rss feeds take feed and turn them into an opml file - way to export so that you don't have to resubscribe once you move to a different reader.

example.... :
http://www.opmlmanager.com/opml/nengard.opml

Feed to JS all the time. uses lots of content that needs to be fed and updated on regular basis.

javascript - syndicating content from a blog to the intranet....

journal articles as feeds on subject pages

weblinks
social bookmarking...
organize fees from social bookmarks
rss feed at bottom on delicious feed and syndicate it on the page!!!!!!
This is Way COOOOOOL!!

My interpretation: Post to blog, but feed blog content to place where the users (attorneys) log in....

Be where the patrons are...

mixing RSS Feeds
kickrss - makes you register to use...
RSSMix - put the rss feed links in, push create, and you have a feed aggregator.... (Doesn't show whose blog it comes from... but a problem.. if you want to attribute.

Feed Blendr : http://feedblendr.com/

Really likes this one. really pretty.

Push content to patrons in a single feed that has all of the subject related information together...

Blogs and wikis for updating... rss feeds for syndicating calendars

RSS Calendar - very simple to use. put in events, they give you a feed.
Calendar Hub

P.S. feed2js.org
style can be chosen too!!

Maureen Clements

I loved this presentation, Maureen was a natural speaker, lots of humor and a fun presentation to attend!

NPR library structure
2 reference desks
10 staff
1 boss
128,000 archived shows
20,000 music items
5,000 spoken word items

During the last year they:

• answered more than 1,000 questions


• archived 2500 shows


• added nearly 30,000 catalog records

In transition, automate onerous tasks
more outreach into the newsroom - proactive rather than reactive

web 2.0 causing them to rethink . Newsroom of the future initiative

make sure they position themselves to be invaluable.

IT - had a conversation - next week had a wiki...

Why important to have a wiki? - fast, cheap and easy
fast to update, fix, etc.

They use MediaWiki

Initial plans - wiki to replace library website
central repository for librarian-approved info
clipping files replacement
communication tool for the newsroom
great archiving and tracking tool
(subject people place - clipping file)

other ideas:
repository for contact info
experts
pronunciation files (mp3 pronunciation files)
NPR phone numbers
possible replacement for the intranet?

they programmed it so that it can handle pdf, bitmaps, mp3s, etc.

How to Begin?
game plan
educating self finding the time
training the librarians
setting up the architecture
starting small
marketing the wiki
getting everyone onboard

rss feeds to come into the wiki
created pages for each person in the newsroom

John Bartells search blog

nature article comparing wikipedia and encyclopedia britannica
bruhaha ensues on Newslib listserv
who knew wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is a newslib lurker
wales visits NPR
Marketing, marketing, marketing!!

High visibility caused problems.. scope creep....

Librarians don't want to say no, (and probably shouldn't,) but there are so many ways to get distracted by others...

Initial intentions were sidetracked but that's a good thing.

Focus more on news and library tasks
can't solve all content management problems with the wiki
understand the technical limitations
don't be pushy but don't give up

NOT A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

5-6 years may be as robust as a website

225 people have logged on to the wiki
some are actually editing
climate change series - upcoming series all desks all shows all bureaus - librarian to coordinate the wiki use

election book
creating a web resource from a print resource
original election reference table of contents - too busy, too complicated
discussion about what was really needed

much simpler revision top house races, etc.

new pages open up in new winder
Election reference - link out to excel spreedsheets

lots of access points

limitations of wiki vs. content management system - for example - have to link out to pdfs, can't put them in the wiki. Can't get them to open.

linked it to network id and login - they know exactly who is updating what...

spamming huge problem on public wiki. problems with wikis being spammed.

pbwiki is hosted, this one is downloaded and edited in-house.

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Pamela Gore

FAQ Purpose
types of Faqs
good vs bad
gathering questions and answers
organization and formatting
placement of faq links
maintenance

purpose faq save time
help users find answers quickly
reduce questions staff must handle

good faq impact user perception
poorly done faq impact feelings about entire site

good:
clear concise
well-organized
scannable
accurate
up to date

poorly executed faq

wordy
difficult to scan
contain too much detail
is just for marketing(?)

best to use actual questions
narrower questions within broader questions
related questions
don't think of all possible questions

avoid library jargon if must use - define
active voice
write questions in first person, answers in second person

bold important words and phrases judiciously

step-by-step instructions, use a numbered bulleted format and write one action per step

let us know! feedback email button on each page

pam.gore@hp.com

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Jenny spadafora "community evangelist"

Jenny's presentation : http://12frogs.com/12/work/il2006

blogs = comments posting better communication


feeds follow more in less time, control the info flow

wikis - living documents, post it - fix it

del.icio.us
social bookmarking
find share remember

social software - find my right people tagged interests & search/browse

future is mmow: Massively Multiplayer Online Work

blogs, wikis, feeds, facebook, myspace, second life, etc., will
enable massively multiplayer online work

take social software - making things easier better or more fun,

behind firewall, lessons from what you can do inside the firewall

extranets

testing of this method of posting

It is almost 2:00 am and I should be resting up for another full day
at the IL2006 conference. What am I doing instead? Reading blogs,
posting on blogger and generally wasting time.
Nevertheless, this is a test of my email posting capabilities.

I spent the day today at the Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey. These are very, very cryptic notes from two talks: Public Library 2.0 and 30 Search tips in 45 minutes.

Public Library 2.0 emerging technologies and changing roles

http://www.tametheweb.com
Michael Stephens Dominican

Read: "Putting the We in Web" Newsweek.
Take a look at flickr under the "il2006" tag - subscribe to Flickr!
last.fm all the songs we subscribe
offspring of web 2.0
law 2.0
media 2.0
advertising 2.0

Read: article in Library journal on user centered change: http://www.libraryjournal.com
(didn't get the entire url.)

Librarians 2.0:

• plan for their users
• are trendspotters

Patrons would like public librarians to:

• run the library like a bookstore
• Be open 24 hours
• have no late fees

Starbucks wants to be known as a place that....

• has wifi
• has a comfortable chair
• you can work on stuff
• you can get coffee
• have book discussions

We need to tell stories of what happens in our libraries - the experiences patrons have.

What stories is your library telling? (signage rules ,etc.)

5 factors to consider:

• if place is a barrier
• is it user centered or librarian centered?
• Are library rules more work for user or librarian?

Read: "User is not broken" blog post by Karen Schneider

Cool things librarians are doing:

• im reference ask a question
• comments in a library catalog
• adopt a 2.0 philosophy.

Use the wisdom of crowds plans for physical and online experience.
Mentioned: Wayne State University advertising for a nextgen librarian.

See: virtual tour of library on flicker Lackman virtual tour. Library has a
"gadget garage" in the library, have classes on how to use all the gadgets.
Learn from the gamers - no mistakes, keep trying

Second Life Library

Create a culture of trust

Hennepin Library allows user comments in catalog

• Trust users
• Trust staff
• Build resources
• Radical trust

Are you a roadblock?
Meet IT at round table - talk to them personally. don't let fear get in the way
"Play - it's the learning 2.0 way"


squido - library 2.0
michael stephens
www.tametheweb.com

Helen Blowers

Use conferences like IL2006 to scout for cool speakers for your library.
learning 2.0 = expanding minds, empowering individuals, enrich the community.
library 2.0 = empowering users and staff

"life comes at you fast"

7 and a half habits of the library 2.0

1. make a goal - begin with end in mind
2. accept resp. for own learning
3. view problems as challenges
4. have confidence in yourself
5. create your own learning toolbox
6. use tech
7. teach and mentor others
8. play

avatars
nextspace

image generators

learning2.0 eval
Look: hblowers/learning2.0Eval (delicious)

learning 2.0 start up

http://www.plcmclearning.blogspot.com

• Build the program for late-comers. (They are watching to see if first class members are having fun. More will join late.)
• allow participants to blog anonymously
• use each other not trainers
• not about doing it right
• not about acceptance
• play

helene blowers
hblowers@plcmc.org
http://libtechbytes.blogspot.com

http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com
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30 tips in 45 minutes

1. creating firefox groopies
   
   firefox control t in same window
   
   
2. use search engines answers google onebox yahoo's shortcuts msn's instant answers
3. ask.com's smart answers
   
4. yahoo "time in sydney"
   
5. squidoo like a blog but more interactive - nice way of sharinginfo with others
   
   
6. Customized Searches:
   • rollyo.com yahoo search builder
   • builder.search.yahoo.com
   • gigablast
   
   custom topic search
   customized search engine
   giving users best part of the web
   
   filters just for related - tells at top, "this is a customized search....'
   put search on user
   home page
   google's personalized homepage
   
   
7. ResearchBuzz
   
   
8. google api, your own page. can install on customized search page
   can intall on users desktop
   using google to degooglize them
   
   can also add a link to your online catalog & other resources link to your own catalog, list of recent acquisitions,
   
   
9. www.BatesInfo.com
   
   Talis - competition for best mashup for the library google for customized librarian newest acquisition, most popular items from the library
   
   
10. synonym finder in google ~word
    
    expands term ~obesity ~kids
    will retrieve:
    obese, diet, weight diabetes, overweight childhood child children youth
    
    
    tends to be a little bit broad, may catch a few things you don't want
    
    
11. google co-op
    custom searching
    
    tagging on steroids by experts
    filters on content
    
    
12. google trends for market research
    Google trend search over time
    where discussion is for market research - energy drinks - what cities
    "energy drinks" what cities something is big.
    
    
13. Google notebook
    snippets from web sites and puts them in notebooks
    
    
    http://beta.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
    
    
14. Search Yahoo Subscriptions
    google news archive - proquest - not free, but archives grouped by year.
    
    
    fee based - search is free. Only subset of the database. Use credit card to pay for it you don't own subscription in your library - if you own the subscription, it is free.
    
15. Mindset Research
    are you researching or shopping?
    
    
16. Yahoo Site Explorer
    
    put in site: http://www.infotoday.com
    inlinks - all the pages that link to infotoday.com (how influential site is..)
    
    
17. exalead
    fav search engine proximity search, phonetic and approximate spelling
    thumbnails of pages . links to open directory project, also links to rss feeds
    
    add to shortcuts - will add link on exalead (not on your own shortcuts)
    
    only search engine that allows proximity (nearX)
    
    
18. Gigablast
    exalead odp categories, sample?
    
    
    
19. msn cool synonym suggestion tool
    
    mutations - common misspellings, english spelling
    
    
20. http://www.zibb.com Business searching cached stripped older copies, etc...
    news products suppliers web & blog entries
    
    
21. kosmix ? vertical search engine
    only a few categories right now
    filter by liberal conservative libertarian, other filters depending on content
    
    
    
22. pathfinders IPL Pathfinders
    
    
23. kebberfegg rss feed generator filtered by keyword
    
    
24. scando - hate sites , malware
    
    
25. http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php NationMaster
    filters takes data and makes sense out of it correlations
    statistical information and makes sense of it
    
    
26. AccessMyLibrary
    asks me my zip code ask me for my zip code - electronic articles you can access in your library. nice tool
    
    
27. eureksters swicki
    vertical search engine
    learns your intersts are by those you click on
    
    
    
28. Taxonomy Warehouse
    Sells taxonomies. Can get free taxonomies. Esp. good if not in your main specialization. so if you want to find the words that advertisers use... some fee, some free - advertising and marketing taxonomy
    
    
29. mining podcast content:
    • podscope
    • podzinger
    • blinkx
    • pluggd
    
    
    
30. qwika.com search for wikis
    beta search engine. search for wiki's.
    
    
31. Furn.net (?)
    organize bookmarks by topics
    export to bibtex and endnote
    
    
32. LibraryThing
    • use to find related books
    • create rss feeds of recent acquisitions
    • people who own this book also own that book
    
    
    • shared catalog
    
    
    
    

I've decided that I need to get back to a life like I had as a grad student in Ann Arbor. What were the facets of the life I loved so much and how do I recreate them in my life here in Alameda?

Elements

• Theatre: - I went to a few live student theatre productions by myself and they were awesome. How do I re-create that here?


• Shotgun Players Present


• Cal Performances


• Altarena Playhouse


• Sports:

• Oakland A's


• SF Giants


• San Jose Sharks


• Learning & Intellectual Stimulation:

• Lectures like at the commonwealth club


• Classes at a University


• Friends To Hang With:


• Taking classes to meet people - ART, kayaking, etc.


• Joining groups - dancing, hiking?


• Attending Golden Gate UMICH alum events


• Libraries To Think In:


• SF Public


• Mechanics


• Alameda


• Academic libraries


• Archives


• Exercise:


• walking


• canoeing and kayaking


• Dancing


• Good cheap Food:

Nothing but testing oh, and downloading: a list

Here we go again, testing this blog again from my powerbook this time. Today is sunday, so far I have:

1. Got up and made Peet's (Sumatra) and had 2 (oh the shame of it!) sticky buns from Wholefoods.


2. Watched an episode of Bargain Hunt from Tivo (mostly to start compiling my new project: travel list of English antique fairs and auction houses for an upcoming trip that is still in the imaginary dreaming stage (i.e. no funding, no dates, no real plans.)


3. Got out my PowerBook and set about to waste more time (3 hours now) updating the downloads and settings to match my other Mac. Downloaded Bleezer a tool that allows you to blog directly from your blog (any blog, anywhere) from your desktop. Cute typewriter icon too!


4. Not sure yet how this one works, but also downloaded TrackMeNot - a firefox browser extension that protects Web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines.


5. And now my sister and I are planning to go somewhere after spending all day yesterday putzing around the house and wasting hours and hours and hours on the computer.

The day is beautiful here in sunny Alameda, and soon, soon, we will be going out of the house - at least I know to CostPlus - to be consumers. However I have no money, so my consumption will be limited.

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This is only a test - blog resurrection

Nothing religious, just a blog that hasn't been used in over 6 years!! The blog is so old, I can't seem to change the template.

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Last post in 2000?? I don't even remember posting this!
Will improve, I will improve. I think I might have various other blogs elsewhere....
scary!