A Wandering Eyre

I am sure this will be all over the biblioblogosphere soon/now, but this video posted by David Free is… well, amazing. We are the toobes. Web 2.0 is about the content we create, the content that can be recreated by others. It is the read/write/share abilities of the web as we now know it that [...]

I am trying to speak at more conferences. There are a couple of reasons why I am submitting proposals, not the least of which are my tenure requirements. I enjoy presenting and teaching, which is nice, but my library does not fund everything I do. Rachel Singer Gordon released her Speaking Fee Survey about a [...]

Edward Castronova, an expert in virtual world economies, recently received a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to build an MMOG based on Shakespeare’s King Richard III. The game, Arden, will be the first non-commercial, academic game of its kind. Castronova plans to use Arden to set up social experiments and teach people about Shakespeare’s works. [...]

It is that time of year when high school students have to start thinking about where they want to apply for college. In some cases, schools accept early admissions and seniors have already applied. It is also to time of year when the discussion turns back to admissions and what we do wrong and right. [...]

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting article on colleges using MySpace instead of campus email to get information out to their students. In addition to this being a really interesting use of social software, the article also has one of the most hilarious headlines ever: Email is for Old People –Jane, simply priceless

I need a handler that follows me everywhere with duct tape. The duct tape, of course, would be for my mouth. Today, in a meeting, we were informed that one of our publishers (a university press no less!) is increasing their journal package 120% over last year’s cost. One Hundred and Twenty Percent. Are you [...]

According to The Chronicle of Higher Ed, the Chicago Manual of Style is movin’ on up and online. As a fan of MLA, I hope they follow the cluetrain soon. Scholars and librarians rejoice! –Jane, still loves MLA the best

A Review of Social Software This post is part of a presentation for UNT’s SLIS 5330: Academic Libraries course. In this space, I will dump some key themes and my URL examples so that the students can have an electronic copy of the sites mentioned. This will also provide a place to give feedback or [...]

This week, a week of change at MPOW, I am reminded why I chose to work here and why I like working in academia. I like the flexibility, though it has its moments of quicksand. I like the expectation of greatness. I am expected to produce great things. To research. To learn. To teach. It [...]

And a story about printing in the library Once upon a time there was a library that received a dedicated fee from its 35,000 student body in exchange for good service, computers, and free printing. After some years, it was obvious to all the librarians that worked on the reference desk that the amount of [...]