Why does Technorati seem to hate this blog? I've had problems before, which I tried to pin on Feedburner, but I'm convinced that Technorati just hates me. It tries to tell me that Open Stacks hasn't updated in thirty days. No amount of pinging seems to change that. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Forgot to mention that Open Stacks turned three years old last week. If you would like to help commemorate this milestone, please submit something to this week's Carnival. Thank you. ;-)

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!

In trying to catch up on my feeds, I saw that the DIY Librarian listed Open Stacks as one of her Top 5 Library Blogs of 2005. I greatly appreciate the acknowledgement, but that's not why I'm writing presently. This was the part of her post that caught my attention: "I have not been reading Open Stacks as much since the focus has turned to podcasting"

Now I'm taking that statement completely out of context, but it got me wondering: Does it bug you, gentle reader, that I only blog about podcasting these days? There really is a reason for it.

When I started recording the show, I reserved any general LIS comments for that environment. Quite frankly, I found it easier to share my thoughts verbally. The blog became mostly a support mechanism for the show.

Then, a surprising thing happened. The "podcasting librarian" somehow became the "librarian with expertise in podcasting." This has meant not only numerous opportunities to share my knowledge, but an impetus to maintain the currency of my knowledge. Thus, even though life has made it near-to-impossible to get back to actually producing the show, I feel compelled to keep current in the one area I'm considered to have some level of specialized knowledge. So blogging is now the mechanism by which I maintain my expertise in the topic of podcasting. Of course, if you have no interest in the topic, the blog is of limited value. So be it. For what it's worth, I enjoy having a niche that beats a slightly different drum.

Hugs and kisses to everyone who has stuck with me through the "life trumps blogging/podcasting" stage. I am quite anxious to get back to the show. I have some new equipment to try out.

In a year full of joy and surprises, I am quite stunned to have been nominated for an Edublog Award. I can't imagine who would have nominated me, but I genuinely appreciate it. That said, there are five other excellent candidates for Best Library/Librarian Blog and I can heartily endorse all of them as worthy recipients. Voting is open until December 17 (my 30th birthday, yikes! - that's worth a vote, right?) and here's a link to the ballot.

As promised, here is a guide to the Carnival of the Infosciences. I'm basing my model on the excellent Carnival of Personal Finance, so I will be co-opting (and indeed plagiarizing) its guidelines as appropriate. The following is subject to change as I get a better idea of what we need to be doing to make it work.

The Carnival of the Infosciences will be a weekly weblog post that endeavors to showcase the best posts in the blogosphere about topics related to the wide world of Library and Information Science.

Most carnivals are based primarily on submissions by the blog post authors themselves, fleshed out with the submissions of readers and the host. I hope to generate enough author interest to be able to follow this model, but who knows. If you write something that you'd like more people to see (or write a blog that you wish more people visited), this is a way to get your stuff out there.

Guidelines for Submission

If you are a blogger, publish your entries as you normally would, but submit the link to the article via the comment form. Submissions sent through the form will be forwarded to the current host, as the location for the Carnival travels from one site to another (just like a meatspace carnival).

If you would, please include the following in the email:

* The title of your entry.
* The URI (address) of your entry.
* A description or summary of the entry.
* Your name or other moniker by which you wish to be referenced.

The Carnival will be posted every Monday, so please submit before 6 PM Eastern Time on the Sunday prior.

The purpose of this is to showcase the panoply of great writing within the LIS blogosphere and to expose the world to as many LIS blogs as possible, so let's limit submissions to one per weblog per week. Naturally, we're looking for submissions containing original thought and opinions, rather than regurgitation and reiteration.

The week's host has editorial control over what is included or not included, although I encourage a general atmosphere of inclusivity and diversity, where practicable.

In order to grow this concept, once the post goes up, I'll be asking y'all to link back to it. That's how we draw attention to it and give the idea legs.

Guidelines for Hosting

Here's the one ground rule for hosting: in order to be a host, you must submit one post for inclusion. It's that simple; submit once, permanent hosting qualification.

I will coordinate the hosting calendar. If you would like to host and have submitted an article at any point, then drop me a line via the contact form and I'll add your site to the hosting list. If you've hosted and would like to host again, you simply go to the back of the line.

Here's how I envision the hosting process. One week before your hosting date, you post to your blog soliciting submissions. You close submissions by 6 PM Sunday evening to give yourself time to put the post together. It is posted sometime on Monday (your hosting date). Your post includes not only the selected posts of the week, but a link to the next host. At that point, the next host opens the floor for submissions on his/her blog and the process continues.

The host has editorial control and can present links in whatever fashion preferred, but hosts should add some commentary to the links to encourage readers to follow the links. If you feel short on content, dig around on your own for some additional entries to include.

That should do for now. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact me.

I've recently encountered a blogging phenomenon known as the Blog Carnival.* If you are aware of bentley's wonderful This Week in LibraryBlogland series, then you are already familiar with the essential concept - an aggregation/roundup of the most interesting posts over a period of time, usually centering on a certain theme. What typically makes the Blog Carnival different from bentley's approach is that the Carnival closes up shop and moves to a new blog location every week. The host blog's author becomes the editor of the Carnival for that week. The advantages of this are:

a) it takes the burden off of a single person
b) new host means new setting and often a fresh editorial perspective
c) willing hosts get great exposure for their blogs and willing readers similarly get exposed to blog authors they may not have encountered previously

My first encounter with a Blog Carnival was the Carnival of Personal Finance, which was most recently hosted at Smart Money Daily and will be moving to I Will Teach You To Be Rich on Monday. [Sidenote: I've been obsessed with personal finance lately. Observe the crop of new related blogs in my blogroll.]

On further research, I discovered what appears to be the "Original Carnival" (or at least longest-running): Carnival of the Vanities, the most recent of which can be found at Wallo World. There is even an entire site devoted to helping readers find the various manifestations of the Blog Carnival.

I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this. I think now might be a great time to initiate a Carnival of our own. Our little chunk of the blogoscape is growing at a high rate and it would be nice to present something to the world that conveys the dynamic and collective power of LIS bloggery (Presence, baby, presence). Plus, I think it'd be kinda fun.

The guidelines for this kind of thing can vary widely. Some Carnivals do not relocate regularly (what's the fun in that?). Some Carnivals are based primarily on submission by blog post authors, while others are based on reader submissions and still others are more like bentley's editor-driven approach. The point is to highlight the best of the week, so I propose that such decisions be left to the host of the week, who would post guidelines and according article solicitation in the week leading up to their actual hosting gig.

As for determining the hosts, we would need some basic guidelines, but mostly it would be whoever was interested - first come, first serve. I would be happy to coordinate that process on an ongoing basis. The guidelines at the Carnival of Personal Finance dictate that:

"Any blogger who participates by submitting an article to any Carnival of Personal Finance is eligible to host. Bloggers whose articles are selected by the host without a specific submission are also eligible.
Bloggers are added to the hosting list in the order the request is received...
Bloggers who are currently on the list to host must wait until the date of their hosting before being added to the end of the list again. This allows any new participants to have a chance."

Seems reasonable enough to use as ground rules.

I have two central concerns at the outset, about which I'd like to get your feedback:

1. I don't want to step on bentley's toes or in any way obviate her efforts. She does an excellent, excellent recap of the previous week's posts. From my own experience, it takes a lot of effort to do such a thing on an ongoing basis. This would be a sort of distributed model for that kind of potentially labor-intensive aggregation. (bentley, if you're reading this, let me know what you think!)
2. Are we already so incestuous that this sort of "celebration" is totally unnecessary and offers little value for the work involved?

What do you think? Please, please send me your feedback, even if it's just a "I'd host one" or "Doesn't seem necessary." Again, I argue that this would be an avenue to establish some presence for the LIS blogosphere as a collective entity. If I get some positive comments, I'll move forward in the next week or two and we'll get this carnival rolling. Oh, and if you have a better name, I'm certainly open to that as well.

* David Faucheux also recently encountered the Blog Carnival. He put up an audio post on the topic earlier today.

So there's this post that will be all over the LIS blogosphere tomorrow entitled Primitivist OR Luddite AND Librarian. In a nutshell, it's a condemnation of the "tech-savvy" librarian. I had some very quick initial reactions that, in the event they do not clear the author's comment moderation, I've listed here for reference.

A few quick thoughts:

3. Writing a sentence such as "Tehc will chane everything, they tell us" lends little credence to your arguments about literacy.

Because that's how Library Journal has generously characterized me in this little piece of "breaking news." But why, oh why, would the blurb's author link to a category archive rather than link to the specific post?

I just noticed that yesterday was the two-year anniversary of the existence of Open Stacks (originally entitled Planet Neutral). It's amazing how much has happened since then. I've been invited to write articles and speak at conferences. I've made friends and acquaintances that I value highly both on an emotional and intellectual level. The library blogosphere has exploded. It's been a great ride so far, and with the development of the show, new horizons await. Thanks for being a part of the journey.

I just wanted to make sure everyone has unsubscribed from any feeds that were generated by lisblogsource.net. We let the domain registration expire and it has been scooped up by a Stephane Grenier, who apparently is the president of LandlordMax. What the plan for this domain is, I couldn't say, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with the initial subject matter. Flee while you still can. You have been warned.

Well, my great experiment in keyword tagging seems to have been a failure. I've contacted Technorati support twice this week with nary a peep, although I thank Dave Sifry for getting in touch with me and connecting me with Dick Costolo at FeedBurner. Dick tried his hardest to pinpoint the problem, but to no apparent avail. So here I am in an awkward position of having advocated for tagging that I can't even make work on my own (Flickr still rules - cil2005 tag all the way!!!). So much for early adoption. If anyone is successfully using Movable Type and Technorati tagging, please, please contact me as soon as possible. Thank you.

OK, after some digging, I've discovered that Feedburner was giving me a variety of problems, not the least of which was disabling any functionality of the Technorati tagging. It was also not updating very efficiently, even after pinging. Therefore, I have made the quick decision to delete that feed and resume regular syndication via the old RSS 2.0 and RSS 1.0 feeds. I truly apologize to anyone who made the transition already on my request. This post is yet another attempt at getting the Technorati tagging plugin to work.

Update 3/10/05: Since publishing this post, I've been contacted by both Dave Sifry of Technorati and Dick Costolo of FeedBurner. Both expressed deep concern about my user experience and have been helpful in trying to sort out my issues. At this point, I'm not going to ask you to switch feeds again, but I want to assure you that FeedBurner provides a quality service that I can safely recommend to those who will find value in its features (particularly the Blogger-using podcasters who can take advantage of SmartCast). Responsiveness always plays a role in my assessment of tech companies and Dick get a big thumbs-up from me. Sadly, the tagging issue remains unresolved, but I'm starting to think the issue is related to either the invalidity of my RSS feed or some problem with my pinging mechanism. Stay tuned...

I've decided to test out FeedBurner as part of my endeavor to keep better track of the number of subscribers to my feeds. So the new and preferred feed is here. It's based on the old 2.0 feed, so it handles enclosures if you're using a podcast aggregator, but will work just great for text in your regular old RSS reader. If you'd consider switching your current feed over to this new one, I'd be much obliged. If you don't, that's OK too. I anticipate no change in the functionality of any of the current feed offerings.

I had exactly one response to my request for feedback on a consensus tag to be used for the Computers in Libraries conference next week. Sad as that is, the one respondent voted for cil2005 and I concur, so allow our majority of two compel you to use cil2005 for any Technorati, del.icio.us or Flickr tagging you do in relation to the conference.

When I first designed the button, it read Blog People. On Karen Schneider's suggestion, I ended up going with Blog Person. But when I saw Blake's cobbled-together version of a Blog People button on LISNews, I figured I may as well offer up the original design for those who'd prefer it.

So here it is:

Michael Stephens had a great idea today. He suggested distribution of buttons that say "Blog People". And while I'd certainly buy a physical button, I immediately thought "Why not a virtual button?"

So here's my go at it:

I encourage you not only to display it on your site (let your geek flag fly!), but also to link it to the Gorman piece at least until someone gives me a better idea. It'd be great if you could host the image on your own server, but if you have to leech onto this one, I'll survive.

Update: Better ideas abound. The majority seems to be linking to the great Revenge of the Codex People over at It's All Good. David King suggested "a page/post with all the relevant links". If only I had the time to put such a page together...

I mentioned in Open Stacks #4 that my old Webjunction article was in the process of being updated. That update is complete, online and with links that now lead to actual living blogs. Enjoy.

I'll be talking more about "the Gorman piece" in the next show, but in the meantime, I thought you might like to read Gorman's response.

Here's a fun quote: "I am surprised that people who attack an article as mine (LAtimes, Dec. 17th 2004) has been attacked should be as thin-skinned as some appear to be." Do I even really need to comment on this? No!

Updated 9:52 AM: You might enjoy the Slashdot take on the Gorman piece. Comments abound. You'll particularly like this one (noted by Steve Bollinger on Web4Lib).

It seems that Google no longer likes any of my sites that contain the openstacks.net domain. I could really use some help troubleshooting the problem, so if anyone has some experience with this, please contact me. Thanks. In the meantime, please choose another search engine.

Comments are no longer an option here due to the spam nuisance factor. Feel free to email me at greg [at] lishost [dot] com. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I was leaving a comment on Library Stuff, when I decided I should just air my opinions in my own forum, created specifically for the purpose. There's a comment from Alan, the author of Blue Hole:

"It's fine to point to a blog, but if you know a person's full name and it's not revealed on their blog, wouldn't it be wrong to use that person's full name in your pointer? I think yes."

Now I think it's clear that something personal prompted Alan to write this. If I'm wrong about that, then I'm a poor judge of tone in writing. Anyway, I tried to think back to any posts that we may have made with Alan's full name in it. Couldn't think of nor find any. Then I figured I would check the other place where I tend to list blogs: dmoz.org. Sure enough, Alan's full name is sitting there in all its glory.

So looking through Alan's blog, I tried to figure out how I knew his last name to include it in the listing. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I go through no great effort to identify blog authors, but if the info is there for the taking, I'm gonna grab it. Well, I looked back at the editing logs for his category and sure enough, when it was first listed back in June, his last name was the domain name!! Doesn't take a researcher to pull that information out of the magic hat.

So here are my points:

1. If you want anonymity on your blog, don't do things like pepper your name onto the site. Don't place an anonymous journal in a subdirectory of a site where you freely use your name (myprofessionalsite.com/blog). Don't link to your resume. Don't link to your organization that has a staff directory on its website, after you've just posted about how awful your life is as the Metadata Librarian for your organization. You get the idea.

2. If you are going to take steps towards limiting your exposure via your blog, consider letting the people who link to you know about it. In the case of dmoz, you would use the "update URL" link that's available from the category page where your site is listed. Some people have done this and I believe they have found me to be quite amenable to such requests.

To answer back to Alan's original question, I think it comes down to how you interpret "revealed." Speaking only for myself, I peruse any information I'm given: the about page, colophon, resumes, first posts, links to the author's other sites, etc. If your name is sitting in any of those places, that's "revealed" in my mind. On the other hand, I'm not about to do a WHOIS search on domain names (even though that information is freely available).

See the difference? My goal is never to suss the author out; it's to give the author as complete a listing as he/she makes possible. Most welcome the publicity and recognition. Some take exception to their own apparent vulnerability. Perhaps it's better that a third party such as myself highlights the chink in one's anonymity armor, so that steps can be taken to repair it before someone who counts notices. But again, if you take those steps, tell the highlighter!

Now that I've gone on entirely too long about that, here's a bonus treat for those of you who've read this far - a picture of the house that we are seemingly about to purchase. Our third offer was agreed to today (actually yesterday, gosh it's getting late) and so I thought I'd share our elation with the blogosphere. Perhaps tomorrow, I'll show you the lake view from that deck coming off the right side of the house.

It gives me a modest amount of pleasure (and relief) to announce the triumphant return of LIS Blogsource. Of course, new install means new feed. I've transferred all the relevant stuff posted here in the past three plus weeks over there, so you can ignore most of those posts and start with the welcome back post.

Steven just passed along this one:

Western Plains Library System Community Blog (Clinton, OK) - "Serving People in Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills, Washita Counties" (RSS feed)

The content on their front page also incorporates the bloggy convention of posting new content links at the top of the page.

This one has not officially launched yet, but since they're live (and I was able to locate it without really looking), I can't help but point it out. You can just feel the potential oozing from it:

i4i : Eye (I) for an Eye (I): Information for Information Professionals - "An Information and Library Science Weblog" (RSS feed - not linked from the site, I just took an educated guess; bet ya I'm the first subscriber!)

From what I can gather, this is a project eminating from folks at the Pratt SILS. One of the coordinators is Michael, who authors the eGov Weblog I mentioned on Wednesday.

The author of Voice of Reason (RSS feed) just "took a job with the government documents division of Hauser Library today."

Jenny's got a good one, but you've probably already seen it, haven't you?

Our Journey to Innovative - "The Addison Public's Library journey to a new computer system!" (no feed)

From the iowa librarian:

Sarah loves pop culture (RSS feed)

Rumblings Under Oscar's Porch - "Take off your coat, and stay awhile. Feel free to leave comments, or just a hello when you've visited." (no feed)

From the proof of librarianship post: "I would also like to publicly (I already thanked him in person) acknowledge the wonderfulness of the principal. It's teacher appreciation week, a week much dreaded by myself as it never ends up being LIBRARIAN APPRECIATION week or day (except for the flowers from the History teacher this Christmas). THIS year, the new principal has included me in all his little efforts at thanking the staff. Yesterday we all got a little thank you for your efforts and special contributions card with a lottery ticket (we got one at Christmas too), today was a tiny box of two EXQUISITE chocolates, and who knows what we're getting tomorrow. It's AWESOME! Also, the cafeteria lady has been sending us food. Yesterday there was a GIANT salad for everyone, and an equally giant platter of homemade cookies, and today was a cheese and fruit platter. YAY! "

This from the "old, but as of yet unnoticed" file:

eGov Weblog - "I'm an Information and Library Science Masters student. I believe that information is a public utility to be shared, used, and, yes, regulated. My areas of research are Government Documents, work flow / knowledge management, and the uses of technology to aid information transfer." (RSS feed)

I just love this:

Schoolhouse Rock - "Playlists and discussion topics from a weekly radio show on WSCB 89.9 FM, Springfield College, Springfield, MA, hosted by reference librarians Emily Alling and James Miller." (no feed)

Sadly, the radio station doesn't stream, but check out the playlist from their first week:

Sam Cooke, Having a Party
Belle & Sebastian, Wrapped Up In Books
Rolling Stones, You Can't Always Get What You Want
Smiths, Bigmouth Strikes Again
Led Zeppelin, The Girl I Love, She Got Long Black Wavy Hair
Internet Gem of the Week: Howard Dean, Remixed (http://deangoesnuts.com)
Ben Folds, The Luckiest
Modern Lovers, Girlfriend
Lauryn Hill, Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Plus, discussion of Boolean logic.

Anyone who can blend Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds and logical operators scores big points in my book.

The Rest of Us Will Be Forgotten, Never Judy - "Garland + Libraries = FUN!" (no feed)

I've mentioned the blogs of the Pullen Library at Georgia State before, but I wanted to share two more subject-specific blogs that the library's subject specialists are producing:

Issues in Scholarly Communication - "A library weblog covering the Issues of Scholarly Communication for the faculty and students at Georgia State University." (RSS feed)

Social Sciences News - "A weblog featuring library related news, events, and resources for the Social Sciences at Georgia State University." (RSS feed)

As seen on EdBlogger Praxis, the Hunterdon Central High School (NJ) Library's web site now features a weblog. (RSS feed)

I believe this is the second blog using this title:

Digital Librarian - "A knowledgebase of tips, tricks, and ideas for the librarians of digital age" (no feed)

Mr. Standfast (no feed)

The author, Robert M. Spencer, is the Assistant Reference Librarian at the Glickman Library, University of Southern Maine.

The text I have about this blog is from a ODP submission (but we only accept English language sites in the LIS Weblogs category; however misguided the policy may be, other languages fall under the World blanket).

danesh-shenasi - "about library and information science and librarianship an information retrieval and searching information" (I honestly don't know whether there's a feed, but I couldn't find any)

Speaking of the Open Directory, indications from the ODP Weblog are that Google may be dropping dmoz.org entries as part of its search results. I can see why. Lots of online directories make use of ODP data, which means loads of redundant search results reflecting the same information. Although Google's use of ODP data has been great for the Open Directory, gaining lots of critical exposure and helping to recruit numerous editors to the cause, the time seems right for a change. Here's a screenshot of the directory-less Google (note lack of Directory tab) and an article discussing the relationship.

Something to occupy my time... - "Nothing worth while, nothing too boring... it's a perfect blend..." (no feed)

An excerpt: "Well, isn't this just fantastic? I'm officially a loser. Yes, my name is Jill, and I have finally stooped to the lowest form of boredness ever imagined. HA!
I'm actually 'working' right now. If you call sitting on my bum at the campus library a job, I'm set for life! The people are really nice though, and I get paid to do my homework. Oh YES!"

Aesthetik Musings - "and other slightly insane diatribes..." (RSS feed)

The author Rebecca is a graduate student in the University of Rhode Island's Masters in Library Science and Information Studies program.

From Steven's comments, we learn that Mikko Saari is a librarian-to-be, also using del.icio.us. And Mikko has a blog:

www.melankolia.net - "Life and opinions of Mikko Saari" (RSS feed)

BTW, with Mikko, BentleyBlog and icontemplate, I count 10 del.icio.us library bloggers.

Ooh, ooh, and the inseasonlibrarian, who may very well be Linda of The In Season Christian Librarian. But then again, maybe not.

Oh look, and jessamyn too.

The Leddy Library Weblog relaunched a little while back with a new URL.

LibrarianInBlack reports that the Marin County Free Library Blog has a new feed.

The Gospel According to Library Dave - "Don't take my word for it...okay, do." (no feed)

Chuc Mung Nam Moi (no apparent feed)

Daynah is a Programmer Analyst II for the University of California Riverside Library System.

Library Diva - "Am I really a librarian?" (RSS feed)

Marian the Librarian is Dead - "The trials and tribulations of a library administrator/interesting person." (no feed)

...as if you needed any. But I like giving the occasional glimpse into the late-night inner workings of a LIS blog hunter.

So Steven talks about library bloggers who use del.icio.us. He counts four. I immediately think of five and begin to write a comment to that effect.* But I quickly start to wonder whether there are others to be found lurking within the social bookmarking latticework. Working through a series of possible bookmark categories, including libraries, library and librarianship. I note the user names of the people bookmarking in these categories. And by following the user name links, I come across the following, another library blogger using del.icio.us:

Easy Librarian - Musing on Digital Library,Topicmap,Knowledge Organization System" (RSS feed)

So that makes six (seven if you count Karl Siewert, occasional contributor to memepool). This same obsessive behavior leads me to wonder if jlm has or will have a library blog for us to share with you.

*[The five user names are librarystuff, planetneutral, tangognat, simanoff and mamamusings. The individual pages are at http://del.icio.us/user_name]

Well, I've received two comments on consecutive days from someone named moreno, who strongly desires to promote the "biggest librarians blog in brazil." Admittedly, the blog looks interesting, but the transition in tone from the first to second comment is quite off-putting.

To my regular readers, please excuse the following rant:

[rant]
1. Please don't tell me what I "need to publish." I appreciate all suggestions and regard them as such. Suggestions, not obligations. Coercion is unwelcome.

2. Give me a chance. I do have a day job after all. Immediately following up a friendly, legitimate request the next day with seemingly condescending remarks about my linguistic faculties and/or cultural bias does not move you up the priority list.

3. There's an email address to the right (hasn't been there long), so please use that for suggestions of this variety. That way, I won't feel compelled to use this forum to air my grievances.
[/rant]

Of course, I can relate to the over-enthusiasm of a student and respect the pitfalls of cross-cultural text-based communication via blog commenting. And I really like the phrase "We have feed." So having said my piece, I offer the following:

Bibliotecários sem fronteiras - "ação, formação e informação" (RSS feed)

Alles drin! (RSS feed)

A sample: "Wer denkt das Bibliothekare langweilige Menschen sind der hat zwar zu 99% recht aber dafür ist das eine Prozent um so wilder. "

Oikothen oikade - "Being the Ramblings of a Classical Scholar Manque" (no feed)

Lee's recent experience reminds me of the trends I saw while in grad school: "When I told my advisor in the library science program that I wanted to go into old/rare book & manuscript library work, he simply said, 'Well, we don't have anything like that.'"

Since my life is more than shoes... - "I thought I'd share it with you" (no feed)

A little confusing as the posts say Andy, when the author is reallly Janet, except for the most recent post, which is actually Andy. Anyhow, it's Janet who just started work at the NC State library.

and i write a letter from a one-way train "welcome to the blogtacular world of a quirkyalone, 20 something female who likes poetry....music....arguing...and crushes. in fact, i may have a crush on you." (no feed)

From the "proof of library employment post":

"I was in the worst mood this morning. can anyone raise their hand and tell me why? no? i really can't either. i slept a little late, there was snow, traffic was crapolicious, and then i got to work, missed the campus bus by 1 minute and had to walk the 10 minutes in freezing wind to the med school to then walk inside for another 5 minutes to get to la biblioteca.

i've been working at the library for over a year now and it hasn't been pleasant all the times, but i do indeed have fun making friends with all the med school kids and doctors."

Not sure how we missed this one:

The InfoMan's Blog - "Thoughts, directions, ideas, and concepts that came across the email inbox and mind of John Burke." (no feed)

Ask Nettie Day - "Library Sleuth! (alter ego of a student librarian)" (no RSS feed)

Carleen just started classes at the Oklahoma University SLIS:

Carleen and Michael Huxley (RSS feed)

The Land of Anne - "The Land of Anne is the realm in which I reside." (no feed)

Anne is a:

Librarian
Knitter
Rocker
Punk band guitarist/singer: Skatey-Eight
Zinester: Adventures in AnneLand
Owner of two Boston Terriers

One New Thing - "Weblog of Lynette Reville, a new librarian in Australia, who is on a library-like quest to find One New Thing to learn every day." (RSS feed)

Librarian Levin - "Here you're sure to find the steamy adventures of Rachael Adele, live from library school in Boston." (no feed)

LS 500 blog - "summaries of articles read for LS 500" (no feed)

Update: There appear to be blogs for everyone in this class, as I came across another today: LS 500 Angelia Campbell's BLOG (no feed)

This feisty young college student and branch library employee is the author of two blogs:

The OGT Blog of Super Justice - "THE JUSTICE BUNNY PUNCHES ARE ABOUT TO BE DELIVERED" (RSS feed)

OGT's Happy Land of Turtles - "Tortoises stay out" (RSS feed)

A grad student who goes by the name of ladyblog produces the following:

From the everyday life of... (RSS feed)

A sample: "Bit by bit I find myself being drawn into the world of librarians. It's sinister and evil the way they draw you into their own little world with it's own language and mannerism."

Ook, She Said - "Don't Mess With The Librarian!" (RSS feed)

So I've been toying around with del.icio.us and am finding it so simple, effective and amusing that I'm making lifestyle changes to take advantage of it. If you're not familiar with del.icio.us at this point, it's basically a communal bookmark locator. If I see something that I want to mark as I'm surfing, reading, etc., I can use a bookmarklet to post it to my del.icio.us page. In this way, it is no different from how I used my Sideblog. The difference is that my bookmark becomes part of a huge bookmarking network. If other people linked to the same URL, a count will be shown. I can easily add category tags and, should I use the same terminology as others, our bookmarks will be collocated. (An exploration of comparative tag selection - deprived as we are of a controlled vocabulary - would certainly prove to be an interesting academic exercise for some enthusiastic grad student).

What I like is that this page of my bookmarks is easily added to from any computer where I can use a bookmarklet and accessible anywhere I go by both myself and any interested parties. It can replace both my Sideblog and my collection of links in my sidebar. By using a set of category tags consistently (hello controlled vocabulary), I can organize the links with a minimum of effort. I've been itching to do something different that would be easier to maintain and I think I have my answer. So if you're interested, feel free to check out my del.icio.us page and for updates as they happen, grab the feed.

If you aren't taking the time to read Marjorie's Catalog, I highly recommend starting from the beginning and soaking in every word. Marjorie, who is still looking for a publisher for her first novel, has the internship of her dreams in the NPR library and she's telling all. I find the whole experience fascinating and have learned a ton from the interesting questions and her approach to tackling them. Then, there's the whole job opening sub-plot...

Canuck Librarian - "Personal blog for a young information specialist" (no RSS feed)

Stephen Francouer, the Teaching Librarian, reports (on DIG_REF) that he has started a new blog:

Digital Reference - "Exploring the intersection of reference services, technology, and instruction." (RSS feed)

Note: I thought the blog seemed familiar and checking our archives, I found that I had discovered it back in August. But it looks like Stephen is finally ready to devote some energy to it, so it's worth re-directing your attention.

Today, I discovered the blog of one of my few good acquaintances here in Madison, IN - local reference assistant and soon-to-be-MLS-holding library employee, Jerry Yarnetsky. He can claim responsibility for introducing me to the potential of blogging, during my practicum last January. The library employs a staff blog that he started (I really should ask if he'd mind me sharing it with y'all) and I've been hooked ever since.

He also headed up the Harry Lemen Photo Collection, a major digitization project of a local historic photo archive. Well worth a look.

His blog:

Life on the River's Edge - "Fact and fiction of life in America's Most Beautiful Rivertown, Madison, Indiana." (no RSS feed)

Thinking Out Loud - "Librarian, reader, writer, video-gamer, amateur techno-geek." (no RSS feed)

Get It All Down - "I'm Writing as Fast as I Can" (no RSS feed)

Steven passed this along, which I suppose confirms that Open Stacks will be the temporary home of Blogsource-worthy posting.

Kristina Wright - "Writer, Rock Star, Library Assistant, Grad Student, Princess" (RSS feed)

Also, I'd like to congratulate John Hubbard on recently celebrating his one-year anniversary of running Library Link of the Day.

Chronicles of Bean - "Musings by me, a librarian by education and a techie by passion. Why do you care?" (no RSS feed)

Well, it wasn't my intention to become the de facto Blogsource, but I'm finding it impossible to not share the good stuff I'm finding.

SHUSH - "a website for the conservative librarian" (no feed)

I'm fascinated by the author's notions of good, bad and ugly, but will let you pass judgment for yourself.

Goddes