Book Burro is a Firefox extension that adds quick & easy comparison shopping ability for all your book buying needs. (via Ubuntu Essentials)
Just reading the CLA Bulletin and it sounds like they'll post speaker's presentations as they receive them (although that's currently a non-existent link so who knows?) But anyhow, if something shows up there, one of my complaints will have been unfounded (though I'd still love to see full video streams of all the sessions – […]
The entire 525 class had to post thoughts on our latest assignment on our personal blogs so I've been reading through my classmates' entries in between finishing my final 746 assignment (as of tomorrow, I'll have completed all of the assignments for “Collection Development in Academic Libraries”. Man, it looked like a very busy, very […]
By: Jason HammondUWO Student Number: 250352538Mailbox Number: 140For: Professor Gord NickersonMLIS 525 – Managing Internet Information Systems Activity #5 Report – Secure Public Access Computing My Experience With UbuntuAt the risk of losing any “geek” credibility I may have, I have to admit that I’ve never used any version of Linux before. All of my […]
These are my notes from probably the best session I attended at CLA (okay, it tied with Michael Geist's session on copyright but those were two totally different things. Or were they?) To put it in perspective, I wrote maybe a page in my notebook at most sessions I attended. I took six pages at […]
[2008-03-21 – Holly is a classmate who I think posted her impressions on our class's private Yahoo! group and who gave me permission to reprint them here.] The good:Sessions – “Is one stop shopping all we dreamed it would be? The Single search interface in action”This was great, it was a LAC librarian and two […]
Math is apparently not my specialty because when I wrote an entry or two ago that the summer semester was half-over as of Friday, it took a conversation with Lindsay today to make me realise that for anyone in the program planning to do it in one year straight (three semesters of five classes each […]
This isn’t exactly a “fun” link but this photo has been making the rounds of various library blogs (not sure where I first saw it so I can’t give credit unfortunately) Here’s the photo. Flickr has a few others plus some discussion you might want to check out as well.
Tomorrow marks the halfway point of the summer semester. I'll be at the Grad Club around noon to have a drink and to celebrate this milestone in “flimsy excuses to go for a drink.” Anybody who's reading this and around campus is invited to join me (and the crowds of soccer hooligans who are sure […]
Access Copyright's “Captain Copyright” campaign raised some hackles at CLA and had a few of us subverting the promotional materials that Access Copyright had at their booth by modifying the stickers they were giving out… For anyone who doesn't know, Captain Copyright is a character created by Access Copyright to promote copyright to students and […]
