The online Digital Collections class started today, much to my delight (though perhaps not to theirs, as it’s not even Labor Day, and already I’m asking them to start their “collections-oriented” blogs for class.) In their honor, however, here’s a link to the Orwell Diaries blog project that also started this month. I have no doubt that, were Orwell alive today, he’d be blogging. Heaven knows he’d still find plenty to say….
A break from theory for two cool things via my blogroll:
Thoughtmesh
(this one by way of Gerry McKiernan, whose ongoing information dissemination efforts on his Scholarship 2.0 blog and posts on various professional listservs deserve much more recognition than I could ever give him here: thank you, Gerry!)
and
Thsrs
(this one from David Friedman of Ironic Sans, which should be immensely helpful in thumbing-down translation efforts. Ironic that my first thought, though, was “Wow, neat idea: isn’t he going to patent this?”)
Great little WordPress plug-in, courtesy of Steve Lawson at Colorado College. (All MLIS candidates should install this “patch” immediately!)
This blog seldom has much of general interest, as it’s usually my “theory diary” in which I post notes about various theories in which I’m interested. (And in which you, with some exceptions, probably are not.)
But since today is the third annual Blog Day, on which we’re supposed to give “link love” to five of the most deserving blogs we’ve recently discovered, I thought I’d do something non-theoretical (and perhaps even fun!) In honor of the blogs being started by the students of KM/LIS 5433 (Design and Implementation of Web-Based Information Services) at the University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies, I am choosing five excellent student blogs from OTHER library schools for my links of the day. Which of these bloggers would you hire ?
From Chapel Hill:
LIS: Michael Habib
(Graduated in December 06, but since he’s apparently still looking for the absolutely right job, and because I like his idea of “faceted friending” so much I had to include him!)
From Dominican:
LIS.dom
(Laura Crossett, because she not only wrote a terrific post on “dinky libraries”, but is already managing one!)
From Drexel:
What I Learned Today
(Nicole Engard, not just because she obviously takes her budding career seriously, but has useful advice for others about doing the same!)
From Emporia:
The Blog of Choice
(Royce Kitts, because he can actually make those group projects sound like fun!)
From Wayne State:
Misadventures of the Monster Library Student
(This blogger hasn’t shared her full name, but anyone who loves spending time in used book stores like “Manda” does, deserves to be on my list!)
Such as librarian Meredith Farkas, with her response to Michael Gorman’s “The Sleep of Reason”, (which seems, ironically, to show that the blog people are indeed having their revenge, since Mr. Gorman himself is now apparently willing to share his ideas through blogging…. though, perhaps, as K.G. Schneider points out. a little too obviously encouraged by the Britannica marketing folks in a clever traffic-building ploy. (As a former electronic marketing manager at a scholarly press, however, I have to confess to admiring their attempt!) Read more…
