[LISNews] The LISNews For May 8th 2009
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Tech for Techies #11 is out today and looks at noise. Specifically it looks at noises that may impact your own attempts at recording. You can directly download such at: http://lisnews.org/audio/download/33534/TfT-11.mp3. -- Stephen Michael Kellat sitting in for Blake Carver
Happy Friday! It's the LISNews for May 8th, 2009...
Let's look at the top headlines from the past week:
-[1] - University of Kentucky Library Flash Mob Rave - UK Finals Week
http://lisnews.org/node/33462/
-[2] - Library Cats: an Interactive Map
http://lisnews.org/node/33471/
-[3] - This Week in Startups
http://lisnews.org/node/33472/
-[4] - Encyclopedic Knowledge, Then vs. Now
http://lisnews.org/node/33476/
-[5] - Wesleyan Student Gunned Down in Campus Bookstore
http://lisnews.org/node/33524/
And here's the latest from LISNews:
--SLJ Article: Celebs with Librarian Moms
- http://lisnews.org/node/33535/
-Front Page Story by shelfcheck Posted Friday May 8th at 10:01 AM
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What do actor David Caruso, Indigo Girl Emily Saliers, Morrissey, NAACP chair Julian Bond, and Nick Cave have in common?
You guessed it: see My Mom, the Librarian at School Library Journal.
--Tech for Techies #11
- http://lisnews.org/node/33534/
-Blog Entry by michaelk Posted Thursday May 7th at 11:41 PM
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This week on Tech for Techies we talk about noise. Not only are we talking about it, we are giving you a plethora of sound
bite examples for your listening pleasure.
--President Obama Requests $265,556,000 for the Institute of Museum and Library Services
- http://lisnews.org/node/33533/
-Front Page Story by shelfcheck Posted Thursday May 7th at 9:22 PM
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>From the press release at IMLS: "Washington, DC—President Obama has requested $265,556,000 for fiscal year 2010 for the
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The request, which was transmitted to Congress today, represents an
increase of $1,453,000 over the FY 2009 enacted level for the Institute’s programs and administration. The proposed budget
will support museums and libraries as they provide unparalleled value to the public, fuel knowledge sharing, and energize
our economy, creativity, and competitiveness. 'We are pleased to have President Obama’s support for the nation’s museums
and libraries,' said Anne-Imelda M. Radice, Director of IMLS. 'With this proposed budget, IMLS looks forward to continued
support of these institutions as they connect people to information and ideas.' The President requested $213,240,000 for
the nation’s 123,000 libraries. [click to continue reading release]
--Submitting pieces for LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast
- http://lisnews.org/node/33532/
-Blog Entry by StephenK Posted Thursday May 7th at 5:37 PM
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It has been possible to submit audio pieces for consideration for LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast. That such was possible
was not advertised or really disclosed. In the interests of transparency, it is perhaps best to outline submission
guidelines. Such guidelines cannot cover all situations and the decisions of the air staff are final. Main Tech Specs 1.
Files may be submitted in MP3 format but must be encoded at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz with a bit rate of 128kbps or higher.
Files are preferred in WAV format recorded at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz at the highest quality level. 2. Segments should
have a running time between five minutes and ten minutes. 3. Segments must be in English. 4. Content must be licensed
under the relevant Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons license for your jurisdiction without additional restrictions.
A signed, dated, written declaration that the submission is irrevocably covered in that way must be on-file before a segment
can air. This is a move to ensure that we have certainty that the rules by which we can use your work don't have sudden
changes. Things Not To Do 1. Sound like Billy Mays promoting a product. That is a commercial and has to be paid for.
2. Sound like the Sham-Wow guy, Vince Offer. That's just not our style. 3. Be anonymous or pseudonymous. It helps
listeners appreciate you better if they know who you are. We don't need life stories. An NPR-style closing bit like this
could work well: “For the LISNews Netcast Network and Public Radio Exchange, this is Stephen Michael Kellat in the Las Vegas
Valley.” 4. Use excessive jargon or use jargon needlessly. Patrons are presumably listening so make sure you include
them. 5. Submit a segment that requires more than simple edits on the production end. We try to keep editing to the
utmost minimum. Downloading editing work to us is a bad thing. Things To Do 1. Be vibrant and witty. 2. Look at old
things from new angles. 3. Entertain, if the piece is for entertainment. 4. Be timely. 5. Reach out across the various
specialties. An example of that is making an advance in cataloging interesting for reference librarians and children's
librarians. 6. Keep it connected to librarianship. Topical matter like history and so on are appropriate as long as
they're geared towards broadening the horizons of generalist reference librarians. Air staff will evaluate pieces.
Rejection does not mean we hate you but rather a submitted piece just might not fit our needs at the time. Submissions are
started by hitting the contact form, selecting the podcast, and then proposing a segment for consideration preferably before
you get too far along recording on your own. Submitting pieces for LISTen: An LISNews.org Podcast by Stephen Michael Kellat
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
--Social Media Snobbery (or, Twitter is a tool, but you don't have to be.)
- http://lisnews.org/node/33531/
-Blog Entry by vforrestal Posted Thursday May 7th at 12:51 PM
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If someone corrects me one more time when I say that I “twittered” something (“um, you mean you tweeted?”) I am going to
scream. Really. Right at them. And is the term “social media” passé already? I unfollowed the person who tweeted that about
thirty seconds after I read that tweet. See, the thing is, I really love Twitter. I follow smart people, who have
interesting discussions all day. It’s wonderful. And for the people in my life who say that it’s sad that I have to find
those kinds of relationships online, I say: “well why can’t you be more interesting then? Why do you make me go outside our
friendship to find satisfying, intellectual conversation? YOU forced me into this!” Ahem. Sorry. Anyway, my point… Ah, yes:
Twitter is just a medium. It’s just another method of communication, and in the same way it drives me bonkers when people
say it breeds stupidity and hysteria (more so than any other medium? Really? Cable news anyone?...) it also drives me crazy
when people act like it’s an exclusive club. So if I don’t get the terminology right, or I don't use the right hashtag, or
if I say I just use the Twitter website instead of the Twitter app du jour (Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Seesmic, take your
choice...) I’m persona non grata? Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s got to be rules, right? Seriously, if you only send
updates telling me about your new blog posts, or trying to sell your services, or to post pictures of your cat (ok that last
one I would probably forgive, and actually secretly enjoy) I will most likely not follow you. As with any community, online
or not, it is wise to spend some time getting to know the culture and attempting to fit in to a certain degree. But if no
one ever goes out on a limb, there will be no innovation, no growth in the community. We wouldn’t have retweets, or
#followfriday, or any other cool uses for the services that weren’t imagined within the first weeks of its debut. Do you
remember when “web 2.0” was all the rage? And do you also remember how anyone who actually worked in any way with web 2.0
was no longer allowed to call it that lest they incur the derision of all their web-savvy colleagues? If you tell me that I
can’t use “social media” anymore either, I’m running out of names to call what I do. Seriously, I’m about 5 minutes away
from calling myself the “kewl stuff on teh intarwebz” librarian, and nobody wants that. Ok I’m lying, I want that, I totally
do. But I can tell you right now that my boss isn’t going to go for it, so can we all chill out with the social media
snobbery already? Maybe all the Twitter/Facebook/FriendFeed/whatever-haters will stop picking on us so much if we stop being
so darn obnoxious to them… although probably not. (For anyone not in the super-cool Twitter club already, here’s a cheat
sheet to all the Twitter-related stuff mentioned here:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/the-ultimate-guide-for-everything-twitter/. Oh, and I’m val_forrestal on Twitter,
and I promise not to make you feel stupid, even if you still call it “web 2.0”.)
--Hyperlinked History- Starting Point by The Faceless Historian
- http://lisnews.org/node/33530/
-Blog Entry by Great Western Dragon Posted Thursday May 7th at 1:18 AM
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If I'm counting things correctly, this is the tenth episode of Hyperlinked History! Who would've thought I'd squeeze ten
episodes out of this thing? I wanted to throw out a quick thank you to all who've listened and I hope you're enjoying the
series at least half as much as I enjoy making it. Big thanks to Stephen, Blake, and the gang here at LISNews too! You can't
find better folks to work with. This time around, join me as we take a ride from today's promise of the future to the
distant past, over 3,600 years ago. Along the way we'll fly with the Hubble Space Telescope, meet an Austrian scientist,
have a couple of revolutions, commit regicide, try communism, play tennis, visit some Gothic churches, liberate Sicily, and
visit a library even older than Alexandria. When you're taking such a long trip, you've really got to have a good Starting
Point.
--Finding Books at Google Book Search
- http://lisnews.org/node/33529/
-Front Page Story by Bibliofuture Posted Thursday May 7th at 12:27 AM
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Over the weekend, on a mailing list associated with new media transformations, there emerged a debate on the inherent
utility of Google Book Search (GBS). Involving Paul Duguid of the Information School at UC Berkeley, Danny Sullivan from
Search Engine Land, Tim O’Reilly from O’Reilly Media, and Donald Waters of the The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (as well as a
few others not excerpted here), the debate drew out many of the tensions of GBS. Full blog entry here.
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