Email and freedom of information act

interesting... [canada]
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“It is not reasonable for e-mails belonging to a private individual to be subject to access by members of the public merely because they are sent or received on a government owned e-mail server,” Madam Justice Anne Molloy wrote for the panel.

Complete article at
http://is.gd/j9Utf

Choosing Technology (free webinar!)

Choosing Technology: How We Decide What Technologies Work Best in Our Libraries
( http://georgialibraries.org/events/wed-web-series/choosing-technology-how-we-decide-what-technologies-work-best-our-libraries )Presented by Tim Daniels
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 10:00am - 11:00am Eastern Time
Separate registration is required for each hour-long session (free & open to everyone!)
In today's environment librarians are constantly bombarded with new and emerging technologies. These technologies can run the gamut from smart phone applications to enterprise-wide systems. How can we decide which technologies are the best, which ones to keep an eye on, and which ones to avoid? During this session we will talk about decision making and apply it to technology.


Personal Knowledge Management: A Framework for Librarians
( http://georgialibraries.org/events/wed-web-series/personal-knowledge-management-framework-librarians )Presented by Elisabeth Shields

Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 11:15am - 12:15pm Eastern Time
Separate registration is required for each hour-long session.

Searching is the easy part. But what do you do with all the material youve collected? What happens when you find an article that reminds you of something someone said in a meeting two weeks ago (or was it three)? What do you do to share your own thoughts, insights from articles and blogs, and what your manager said at the last staff meeting with the team charged with developing a strategic plan?

Tools for knowledge management are usually meant for institutions and are correspondingly expensive. But there are many tools for personal knowledge management that are very affordable. Discuss personal management needs with Elisabeth Shields; hear about the types of tools available with examples of each type.

Please contact a member of the Wednesday Webinar planning team with questions or ideas:
Sarah Steiner, Georgia Library Association, PACE Chair, ssteiner@gsu.edu
Buffy Hamilton, Wednesday Webinars Steering Committee, buffy.hamilton@gmail.com
Pat Carterette, Georgia Public Library Service, pcarterette@georgialibraries.org
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The Georgia Library Association and Georgia Public Library Service are pleased to announce the January 2011 sessions of the Wednesday Webinar series (WWS) ( http://georgialibraries.org/events/webinars ), which highlights trends, innovation, and best practices in Georgia Libraries. The webinars feature Georgia speakers, but registration is open to anyone, anywhere. Topics are chosen to be of interest to employees of all library types, and each session is approved for one Georgia Continuing Education (CE) contact hour. The sessions will be recorded and available on the WWS archives ( http://georgialibraries.org/events/wednesday_webinars_archives )site for later viewing.

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship wants to hear from you

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Are you planning to attend any upcoming conferences, workshops, or programs related to electronic resources in libraries? If so, a new column in the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship entitled “E-Resource Round Up” would like to hear from you! This column is dedicated to helping JERL readers better understand topics related to
the ever-changing world of electronic resources and their roles in libraries. The column will cover developments in the areas of new and emerging technologies and systems related to electronic resources and
the digital environment; reports from professional discussion groups, eetings, presentations, and conferences; news and trends related to electronic resource librarianship; tips and suggestions on various
aspects of working with electronic resources; opinion pieces; vendor activities; and upcoming events of potential interest to JERL readers.

If you would like to send a submission to E-Resource Round Up, please contact either of the column’s co-editors: Bob Wolverton, Associate Professor/Database Maintenance/Authority Control Librarian, bwolverton@library.msstate.edu or Karen Davidson, Associate Professor/Serials Cataloger kdavidson@library.msstate.edu. The next priority deadline for column submissions is Friday, January 28, 2011

Semantic web and Social web (guest lecture)

A guest lecture...
Semantic Web and the Social Web

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Is your password/login compromised?

In case you've not seen the news, gawker (parent co. of lifehacker, jezebel, lots of pop sites) was hacked. Email addresses and passwords FOR GAWKER sites were published at pirate bay and are now out in the wild.

Gawker has contacted those who logins/passwords were released, but you can also check to see if your email is on the list
http://www.slate.com/id/2277768/

If your login and password was published on the web, it should only affect Gawker sites UNLESS you've used the same login and password across the web (which is really not a good idea). Regardless, now might be the time to tighten up your passwords.

More on the situation
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002075.html
http://tinyurl.com/298etl8

Top 5 fonts not to use (true, but humorous)

Geek Humour:
The Top Five Fonts To Never Ever Use

Ok, I don't have a problem with arial, but it is kind of boring.

Professional networking, digital identity, branding, and reputation management (one of my presentations)

I'll be doing this again for the larger university community at some point.

Yourvoiceb23

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Also, remember, I'm available for oncampus lectures, workshops, etc. OR if you want to pay travel, I will go just about anywhere! ;-)

eink, ereader, tablets, hybrids, oh my! what do I buy?

my shopping list:

• definitely need color screen for video and photos.
• speaking of photos ... need a built in camera.
• not too big, not too little (10.2 inches seems about right
• not too heavy or thick
• dualcore processor think is a necessity
• wifi possibly bluetooth
• usb
  
• SD card slots
  
• Less than 1000$
  

Optionals:

• eink
• keyboard (external usb keyboard ok)
• flash support (til the web world catches up with HTML5)

Will use it for:

• reading
• watching movies
• email
• social gaming
• running presentations at conferences
• perhaps, uploading photos to flickr
  
• travel!
  

So, what do I buy (or someone wants to send me products to test I will definitely review)
LOL

San José Public Library website (Drupal!)

I thought this article was interesting, given I am on the homepage redesign committee. We, too, are dramatically reducing links; however, design wise, I think it has a much more organic feel and look. Of course, we'll see what usability says, right?
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"The San José Public Library (SJPL), CA, unveiled its new, vastly simplified website this month, after more than two-and-a-half years of design work and usability testing."

and
"Six blocks concept is key
The most noticeable aspect of the redesign is its simplicity. The usual wide array of links that used to greet visitors—a familiar sight on library websites—has been replaced with a portal offering just six broad choices: Books & Media, Downloads, Services, Research, News & Events, and Locations."

Question of the day: What to use to catalog a small church library?

So, the question of the day was about how to catalog a church's library.

This article has some great suggestions especially in regards to collection management decision making.

In addition to determining which audience level, type of media, and subject headings schema to use (Sears, LCSH, etc.), I would add to also figure out how you want to provide access to the catalog and what you want to use it for. Do you want a system where you can also circulate items? Can you host it on your server or does it need to be hosted elsewhere?

Hosted elsewhere solutions
LibraryThing.org: many small libraries have used librarything to catalog their items; Community contributed records but no checkin/checkout functionality

Hosted on your server (software)
Opensource. Features include membership creation, assigning/printing barcodes, an online user-searchable cataloge, run circulation tasks, etc.
Koha, http://www.koha.org.
Evergreen, http://open-ils.org/

Biblios.net, http://biblios.net/ Biblios.net has a webbased cataloging client and allows for sharing of records, although you'd need a database to then put your work back into.

Lots of choices at this website.

Semantic web cataloging and metadata (guest lecture)

Guest lecture
Semantic Web, Cataloging, & Metadata

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Net neutrality: the future

Net neutrality basically deals with control of web access by broadband providers, but in controlling access, libraries and other web content providers would be impacted.
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The FCC, via its chairman Julius Genachowsky, has officially staked its claim on the future of the Webs. Net Neutrality all the way.

...he simplifies the arguments about Net Neutrality down to three key points:

1. "Americans have the freedom to access lawful content on the Internet, without discrimination." Meaning "no one should be able to tell you what you can or can't do" from a company right up to government level, as long as what you're doing is legal.

2. "You have a right to basic information about your broadband service." The FCC shows by this that it's going to get strict with ISPs about making it clear to consumers exactly what they're paying for, which makes it easier to choose between competitors.

3. "The Internet will remain a level playing field." People must be able to exercise free speech, shop, sell products or services and innovate "without permission from a corporation" or a corporate gatekeeper "prioritizing access to one person's content over another."
http://www.fastcompany.com/1706711/fcc-net-neutrality-genachowski

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If you're still not clear about what net neutrality is, wikipedia's definition is good:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality

We are the web takes a more humorous approach but explains the issue really well, too.
http://www.wearetheweb.org/