I want to make special mention of the efforts of local (to me) librarian E.G. Yarnetsky, who has done an amazing job singlehandedly redesigning the Madison-Jefferson County Public Library website. The whole site is built around a Wordpress Textpattern (thanks Jerr) installation and includes a nifty Library Buzz blog. There’s a blog feed and a separate feed for library events.
The new site is something of an event itself around these parts. It was worthy of a front page newspaper article, as well as a mention at Syndication for Higher Education. Great job, Jerr!
Now presenting: Open Stacks #20.
Also available via the podcast feed.
Thought I’d clear out the backfile of things to discuss before I head off to CiL tomorrow. I’m not altogether happy with the sound quality, but not upset enough to re-record. Running time is 24:43.
Show notes:
1. Clubb battles Royal - Everyone loses.
2. An update on Jackson (not my son, who is fine, thanks)
3. On using large libraries to generalize about all libraries - a new report
4. Oklahomophobia - that was too obvious, right?
5. Trading Walden for Walmart
I had also meant to talk briefly about the new Waterloo Public Library podcasting initiative (as reported by Michael Stephens), but the press release speaks for itself. I must say that digitized “heritage walking tours” sound like a very compelling use of resources for the community.
Just a quick note to point out that The Rock & Roll Librarian has made a tentative foray into podcasting using the podOmatic podcast service. podOmatic seems like a easy way to generate a fully-featured podcast and accompanying website with little more than a microphone. Even comes with a integrated voice comment line. If the Rock & Roll Librarian’s efforts are any guide, the sound quality is very passable as well.
Kelli Staley IMed me this evening to let me know about her library’s shiny new branded, preloaded version of the Juice podcatcher. So if patrons download the Lansing Public Library branded Juice, they get an aggregator with all four of LPL’s podcast feeds preloaded and a shiny LPL logo staring them in the face. Talk about presence - even if you unsubscribe from the feeds, the logo remains! How completely overdue.
Now directing your attention to the Carnival of the Infosciences #28, courtesy of Rebecca Hedreen at Frequently Answered Questions. This week’s edition is replete with a wonderful application of the Spell with flickr tool.
Next week, the Carnival visits new ground over at Steve Lawson’s See Also… blog. Please send your submissions to slawson@coloradocollege.edu.
I also want to take this opportunity to highlight Liz Burns’ post about Carnivals over at Pop Goes the Library, where she highlights the upside of looking at Carnivals outside of the LIS sphere. I second that emotion and recommend glancing at the Blog Carnival website as a solid starting point for your exploration.
Posted by: Greg Schwartz in News
Surprised to not find any mention of this year’s Library Journal Movers and Shakers issue in my aggregator this morning. I guess it doesn’t actually come out until tomorrow, but it’s already arrived at my workplace. Anyway, big ups to Meredith Farkas, John Hubbard and John Blyberg for making this year’s list. Well deserved. Congrats as well to all the others who were acknowledged.
Update: How did I forget to mention Sophie Brookover? My apologies!
It’s great to have a friend like Steven Cohen. Not only is he willing to sign up for repeated Carnival hosting gigs, he’s willing to tell you to do the same. Gotta love him.
Anyway, he also does a wonderful job presenting the Carnival of the Infosciences #27. Nice to see some new folks submitting entries and thus adding to our pool of potential hosts.
Next week, the Carnival returns to Frequently Answered Questions, where Rebecca Hedreen would love to see your entries on distance learning, academic libraries or anything else library-related that suits your fancy. She gives you a litany of contact options under Getting Help, but I’m sure an email to hedreenr1 [at] southernct [dot] edu will get the job done.
Andi Bartelstein contacted me today to let me know that The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University are now offering a podcast. So far, there are two episodes: one covers the various ways students and faculty can contact and work with subject specialist librarians, while the second delves into using JHsearch, which is the Johns Hopkins’ implementation of MetaLib federated search. Here’s a link to the podcast feed.
And have you submitted to this week’s Carnival yet? Steven is waiting for your submission at stevenmcohen [at] gmail dot com until 6 PM EST tonight.
