SLA 2009 – Day 4 – Tuesday

Early morning – session at 7:30 am

7: 30am -- More With Less: Successful Time Management Practices

11: 30am  --Solo Librarians Division Business Meeting Luncheon

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12:30 Interdisciplinary Science and Its Impact on Information Professionals

1: 30pm  -- Working Smarter: Creating a Virtual Assistant

5pm  -- All Sciences Poster Session and Reception

9 pm -- Information Technology, Leadership and Management, and Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Divisions Open House: The Embassy Ball

with visits to the exhibits mixed in.

 

 

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SLA 2009 -- Day 3 - Monday

Slept in this morning. First session not until 9 am.

Went to first choice – ROI 2.0 corporate libraries – seemed like a long ad for an ebook vendor. left and went to second choice – Radical Reference – not what I thought at all. Too left wing for me.

Went to third choice – social networking analysis with Jay Liebowitz – this one was a great choice. Mapping of social networks to determine communication channels and interactions to locate bottlenecks and unconnects

At 11 am went to “moving up the ladder when there is no ladder to climb”. Jeanne Miller of UMICH was first speaker. Hildy Dworkin in NY city government was second and Karen Rescik was third. Very interesting and provided some good ideas to try.

Between all sessions I went to the exhibit hall and met people, learned about potential services, etc.

Migraine caused me to miss Canadian Reception and Elsevier Reception. Went to Solo open house and IT open house as they were in my hotel.

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SLA 2009 – Day 2

Got to sleep in today.  Rain was predicted, but the weather has remained beautiful. Sunny and clear.

Had a few things to print and had a bit of problem with the Kinkos systems, but worked it out.

Solo Division Board meeting at noon. Went well. I am secretary and hope to have minutes finished in the next few days.

Went to the exhibits for most of the afternoon. Talked to many vendors and picked up some quality swag.

Skipped the keynote because my head was not good. Stayed in and rested.

Went to SciTech Poster session

Knowledge Management Reception

LMD

and IT receptions.

SLA 2009 Day 1

5:00 am Woke up in Oakville ON

5:30 AM - Picked up by Airport Limo and whisked off to Toronto Pearson International Airport for a 8:00 am flight (we must be at the airport 2 hours before international flights and no matter what some people think, USA is still an international country)

5:50 AM - Checking in

6:20 AM - Sitting in boarding area waiting

6:25 AM - Drinking a Tim Hortons coffee and enjoying a toasted everything bagel with herb and garlic cream cheese

7:15 AM - Getting US cash from ATM in terminal

8:00 AM - On plane

9:10 AM - In Washington DC

11:15 AM - Checking into Washington Renaissance Hotel Downtown

1:00 PM – Headed for Convention Center. One block away.

Computers down at registration at conference centre. Back up shortly. Computer tells me to go to “badge pickup” – ???? – no signs, no nothing with that on it. What it really means is “Talk to person behind desk to get tickets and bag”.

1:30 PM – sandwich, chips, and Diet Coke (my hotel is all Pepsi, bummer) from upper level conference snack booth ($12) and wading through stuff in conference bag. Put badge together, checked tickets, read programme, etc.

2:00 PM – in 2010 New Orleans Planning Meeting!! Guess who is keynote speaker next year – James Carville and his wife (I guess you US people would know her, but all I know is she is the other party from him and I don’t even know which party he is [yes yes, I could look it up, but it does not really matter that much to me]) I do not follow politics but this is a very interesting choice. Guess Brad Pitt was unavailable :)
Met Hildy Dworkin and Rene Shoemaker, my fellow SOLO exec members.

5:00 PM – in Renaissance bar/restaurant having drinks and dinner with Hildy and Rene.

6 PM – on bus tour of Washington – see photos on Flickr, as I won’t post them all here :) I took this one. It was a very nice day for a tour. Too humid and no water available. Herded all over and meeting the same herds, I mean tour groups, over and over at each landmark.  (Note to tour company – water the livestock occasionally)

Met a bunch of very nice ladies on the tour!!

9:30 PM -  heading  back to hotel, hot and thirsty

The rest of the evening was checking email, finding minutes for Sunday’s board meeting, putting feet up and off to ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ by 11PM. An early night, perhaps the last :)

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Sharing SLA 2009 Personal Conference Planner information

A tweet on Twitter from Jill Hurst-Wahl about not being able to share SLA Conference Planner information started this chain of thought.

Google calendars are easily shared, posted and updated from exported data from other calendar programmes. I knew last year I exported my conference planner, imported it into Outlook and printed the pages in a more user friendly format.

I knew the same could be done for Google calendar.

• Start in your planner. Click the button to “Export to Outlook” and save the file somewhere you can remember. This creates a CSV file.
• open Google calendar (http://calendar.google.com)
• create a new calendar if you want, or import the items into your existing one. I created a new one called SLA 2009
• Click “settings” on the “My calendars” box and choose “import calendar” under “My Calendars”
• Browse to the file you saved above, choose which Google calendar to import into and Import.

Under calendar details for this calendar you now have options to share it, post it, etc.  Here is mine. You can see I still have a few decisions to make as to which sessions I will be attending. You can update it by exporting from the Planner and importing into Google calendar again and not allowing duplicates.

Enjoy

 

Purina Walk for Dog Guides

 

My family, including our Dog Guide Foster Puppy AJ, will be participating in the Purina Walk for Dog Guides on May 31, 2009 to help raise funds for the training and placement of Dog Guides.

AJ is our second foster puppy.

All Dog Guides are provided to eligible candidates at no cost. Funding for Dog Guide training is 100 per cent obtained from donations and no government funding is received. Dog Guides Canada has already provided their specially trained Dog Guides to more than 1300 men, women and children from ages eight to 88. With your help, more people can experience the mobility, safety and independence a devoted Dog Guide partner brings.

You can help by giving an online gift by credit card by clicking 'Donate Now'.

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My Fundraising Goal

$1,000.00

Raised so far $825.00

Photo management software

I have been looking for quite some time for good great software that is free low cost, user friendly, downloadable (i.e. not a web based system like flickr, webshots, etc.), has commenting features, and does not need a lot of admin knowledge.

I have read a number of articles, checked out discussion lists and downloaded many trials.

Here is what I have found so far:

Omeka – this looked great. I got all excited. Then our IT people informed me that you need to have running Linux, Apache, PHP5 and MySQL5 and they were not willing. All that is beyond me. If it is not beyond you, this looks like a perfect solution.

“Omeka is a free and open source collections based web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and cultural enthusiasts. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability. Until now, scholars and cultural heritage professionals looking to publish collections-based research and online exhibitions required either extensive technical skills or considerable funding for outside vendors. By making standards based, serious online publishing easy, Omeka puts the power and reach of the web in the hands of academics and cultural professionals themselves.”

Gallery – This one also looks good, however it also requires PHP and a web server, etc.

“Gallery is an open source project with the goal to develop and support leading photo sharing web application solutions. The Gallery project develops open source software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a community of users and developers. The development is a distributed effort, with collaboration from around the globe. The team is well organized, with weekly meetings, and constant communication. Serving millions worldwide, the Gallery project is the most widely used system of its kind. Gallery is free to download and use.  Gallery is also the name of the main product, an online photo album organizer. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site.”

Extensis Portfolio – this one is not free, but it is reasonably priced. However it also got some less than rave reviews. I’ll have to try the demo. It is used by a few very well know places.

Canto Cumulus – no pricing on their site.

“Search and find images across your entire organization. Cumulus makes it all available and searchable by subject matter, creator/photographer, campaign, model or any other custom metadata you define— even if the original image source is offline. Cumulus makes it easy to share all your images, or just those you choose. Provide easy self-service access to the latest approved version of every image you want to distribute… in whatever resolution or format your users need.”

Microsoft Expressions Media -- $199

This one got bad reviews, so I did not spend too much time looking at it. Perhaps a demo??

IDimager – at $129 for the professional this one looks very good. It has all the features I was looking for. It has a free 30 day trial so that is next. One feature that I am really lookign forward to is “area tagging” like in FaceBook. You can then tag people in the photo directly so everyone knows who is who.  Other features are: Revolutionary search system; Fast image collecting; Versioning and Stacking; Area tagging; Relational labels; Easy metadata management; Archiving; Open architecture; Unicode™ support

“imaging software that is complementary to your digital imaging equipment. Its many features will make it easier to maintain the large number of photo files that you will produce. Some feature examples are: acquire images from a digital camera, browse, organize, catalogue, version control, archive, edit, e-mail, print, find, slide shows, publish images to the Internet... and more.”

 

 

Article I found of great value -- Systems for Managing Image Collections  http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/systems-for-managing-image-collections/

Fake Journals

via http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/03/merck-and-elsevier-p.html

Merck publishes, basically a marketing document, as a journal. Elsevier does the actual publishing.

 

What is NOT wrong with this?

Goodbye friends

Some of my friends have been deleted.  If you are one of them, please don’t take it personally. I was running out of time in the day to read it all.

I reduced my Facebook friends list by about half. I also reduced the number of people I am following on Twitter significantly. But the one reduction that will buy me the most time, is cutting my subscriptions on Google Reader by about 65%. 

I figure the really important news will be retweeted and reblogged by someone I do follow.

So,  farewell old friends…..

Library Society of the World “Shover and Maker Award” winner

 

I thank you all for your confidence in me and my abilities. Without you I would never have won this prestigious Library Society of the World “Shover and Maker” award, let alone been nominated for it.

I have been a shover and a maker for many years and am finally rejoicing that someone else has recognized my unique talents.  See: http://www.shoversandmakers.net/sm-award-winners-2009  I should be there somewhere.

 

After a degree in chemical engineering and a masters in library science, I am now in my 22nd year with Xerox. I am located in the postmodern structure at the corner of Winston Churchill and the QEW in Mississauga, ON, CANADA.

This last year, in order to win this award, I completed the following – among other things:

• updated internal library web pages
• negotiated contracts with a number of big name library suppliers
• developed and implemented a system to import all the MARC records for our ebook collection (over 12K titles) into our library catalogue
• worked really hard at understanding US/Canada corporate copyright agreements
• learned how to build things in Second Life
• twittered (tweeted?) like mad
• designed/implemented/populated a database of courses and conferences in our area of interest with web interface
• supported engineers, chemists, physicists, etc. at two locations in two countries, thousands of miles apart, and kept most of them happy
• attended SLA in Seattle
• championed a library booth at an internal technical conference
• found someone else to handle the interaction with the US government’s iEdison system
• got a new laptop with vista and had them uninstall it and install XP
• won an internal award for my community work (foster family for Dog Guide puppies)
• won $100 gift certificate from SLA for completing the 23-things project (months have gone by and I have not seen the money though)
• became webmaster for CFUW Oakville

Twitter - http://twitter.com/carolyne/
Facebook - www.facebook.com/people/Carolyne-Sidey-Darimont/508741970
blog – http://carolyne-stuff.blogspot.com
second life – CarolyneSidey Xerox
Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolyne/
Webshots – http://community.webshots.com/user/cdarimont
meebo – _carolyne_
email – carolyne (dot) sidey (at) xerox (dot) com 
          library (dot) blogger (at) gmail (dot) com

Ada Lovelace Day : Ruth Adams

Just who is Ada Lovelace you may ask and why am I posting about her.

To honor the birthday of Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, 1500+ people have signed a pledge to profile a woman in technology on March 24.  This is my contribution. Many people are blogging about her and other women of science. Ruth Wilson of the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology emailed to let us know that their guest blogger from today is the great-great-great niece of Ada - Honora Smith, Operational Research and Management Science at the University of Southampton.

Ada Lovelace, according to Wikipedia:

“Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815, London – 27 November 1852, Marylebone, London), born Augusta Ada Byron, was the only legitimate child of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron. [the famous poet, Lord Byron] She is widely known in modern times simply as Ada Lovelace. She is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. She is today appreciated as the "first programmer" since she was writing programs—that is, manipulating symbols according to rules—for a machine that Babbage had not yet built. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities.”

I have chosen the first women from Canada to be granted a patent – Ruth Adams. She was granted a patent in 1855 (before Canada was Canada) for a Reverse Cooking Stove – one of only 490 issued that year.

From List of Canadian patents from the beginning of the Patent Office, June, 1824, to the 31st of August, 1872 (1882)

No. 492-ADAMS, (R.,) of the City of Toronto, in the County of York, for a "Reverse Cooking Stove." Quebec, dated 20th January, 1855.

I found very little about our Mrs Adams. I looked in every reasonable resource on my local library’s database site. None had any information on Ruth Adams. I did find her name misspelled as “Addams.” The best place for information was inventivewomen.com (http://www.inventivewomen.com/library/library_ruthadams_on.shtml) where she has a full page. This is her only invention, but from the language and drawings in the application, they assume she was well education and bold enough to try.

“Ruth wrote, "My invention has the following advantage over other cooking stoves in use... cleanliness, beauty and convenience. Cleanliness, the smoke and ash are so secured that no inconvenience can arise therefrom. Beauty, as even the foot and kettle can be kept bright and clean. Convenient, as it's parts can be used within the whole."”

She was married (Reverend James Adams) and lived in Toronto. Her husband was from Esquesing, Halton Co. (where I currently live – now Oakville, Milton, Georgetown – Esquesing being near Georgetown) She had been widowed by the time she submitted the patent application and there is no mention of children.

21 years

Today is my anniversary at Xerox.

21 years ago!!

FIS2132H - The Literature of Science and Technology

Went into Toronto yesterday to speak to the  FIS2132H - The Literature of Science and Technology  class at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information Studies.

I want to thank Patricia Meindl for inviting me. Patricia is teaching this class and is the Chemistry Librarian for UofT.

Other invited speakers were Kathryn FitzGerald from MaRS and Leila Fernandez, Science Librarian at York University.

They were a very interested class, asking relevant and probing questions. I enjoyed seeing the UofT campus again – some things have changed, much is still the same after 28 years. (28!!! OMG)What is always the same are the BBQ Pork Buns at the Yung Sing bakery on Baldwin St.    Delicious

I am a winner!!

 

Just received this email:

Thank you for participating in SLA’s 23 Things. I am pleased to inform you that you are the recipient of $100 for completing all 23 Things. The prizes were generously donated by Dialog and Dow Jones.

At the SLA Leadership Summit in Savannah, 23 names were drawn from a hat and the 23 Things winners were announced to resounding applause. In addition to $100, you will also receive a PDF certificate of completion signed by SLA 2008 President Stephen Abram and CEO Janice Lachance to show [to] your management!

Congratulations on completing all 23 Things! Your hard work is an inspiration to our members and your new skills will be a benefit to you and your organization.

Sincerely,

Stacey Bowers

THE 99 THINGS MEME

THE 99 THINGS MEmE



As seen on Walt's and Stephen's blogs.

Things you’ve already done: bold
Things you want to do: italicize
Things you haven’t done and don’t want to - leave in plain font


1. Started your own blog.
2. Slept under the stars.
3. Played in a band.
4. Visited Hawaii.
5. Watched a meteor shower.
6. Given more than you can afford to charity.
7. Been to Disneyland/world.
8. Climbed a mountain.
9. Held a praying mantis.
10. Sang a solo.
11. Bungee jumped.
12. Visited Paris.
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea.
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch.
15. Adopted a child.
16. Had food poisoning.
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
18. Grown your own vegetables.
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France.
20. Slept on an overnight train.
21. Had a pillow fight.
22. Hitch hiked.
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill.
24. Built a snow fort.
25. Held a lamb.
26. Gone skinny dipping.
27. Run a marathon.
28. Ridden a gondola in Venice.
29. Seen a total eclipse.
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset.
31. Hit a home run.
32. Been on a cruise.
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person.
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors.
35. Seen an Amish community.
36. Taught yourself a new language. If computer languages count.
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied.
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person.
39. Gone rock climbing.
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David in person.
41. Sung Karaoke.
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt.
43. Bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant.
44. Visited Africa.
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight.
46. Been transported in an ambulance.
47. Had your portrait painted.
48. Gone deep sea fishing.
49. Seen the Sistine chapel in person.
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling.
52. Kissed in the rain.
53. Played in the mud.
54. Gone to a drive-in theater.
55. Been in a movie.
56. Visited the Great Wall of China.
57. Started a business.
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia.
60. Served at a soup kitchen.
61. Sold Girl Scout cookies.
62. Gone whale watching.
63. Gotten flowers for no reason.
64. Donated blood.
65. Gone sky diving.
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp.
67. Bounced a check.
68. Flown in a helicopter.
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy.
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial.
71. Eaten Caviar.
72. Pieced a quilt.
73. Stood in Times Square.
74. Toured the Everglades.
75. Been fired from a job.
76. Seen the Changing of the Guard in London.
77. Broken a bone.(I had two surgically broken and realigned, does that count)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle. (motorcycle yes, speeding no)
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person.
80. Published a book.
81. Visited the Vatican.
82. Bought a brand new car.
83. Walked in Jerusalem.
84. Had your picture in the newspaper.
85. Read the entire Bible.
86. Visited the White House.(I drove by, does that count)
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating.
88. Had chickenpox.
89. Saved someone’s life.
90. Sat on a jury.
91. Met someone famous.
92. Joined a book club.
93. Lost a loved one.
94. Had a baby.
95. Seen the Alamo in person.
96. Swum in the Great Salt Lake.
97. Been involved in a law suit.
98. Owned a cell phone.
99. Been stung by a bee.

I did not write this, but I agree completely

found on Toby Ward's Intranet Blog http://intranetblog.blogware.com


1. Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the Christmas spirit. In fact, if  you see carrots, leave immediately.  Go next door, where they're serving rum balls.

2. Drink as much eggnog as you can. And quickly. Like fine single-malt scotch, it's rare.  In fact, it's even rarer than single- malt scotch.  You can't find it any other time of year but now.  So drink up!  Who cares that it has 10,000 calories in every sip?  It's not as if you're going to turn into an eggnog-alcoholic or something. It's a treat. Enjoy it. Have one for me. Have two. It's later than you think. It's Christmas!

3. If something comes with gravy, use it. That's the whole point of gravy. Gravy does not stand alone. Pour it on. Make a volcano out of your mashed potatoes. Fill it with gravy. Eat the volcano. Repeat.

4. As for mashed potatoes, always ask if they're made with skim milk or whole milk.  If it's skim, pass. Why bother? It's like buying a sports car with an automatic transmission.

5. Do not have a snack before going to a party in an effort to control your eating. The whole point of going to a Christmas party is to eat other people's  food for free. Lots of it. Hello?

6. Under no circumstances should you exercise between now and New Year's. You can do that in January when you have nothing else to do. This is the time for long naps, which you'll need after circling the buffet table while carrying a 10-pound plate of food and that vat of eggnog.

7. If you come across something really good at a buffet table, like frosted Christmas cookies in the shape and size of Santa, position yourself near them and don't budge. Have as many as you can before becoming the centre of attention. They're like a beautiful pair of shoes. If you leave them behind, you're never going to see them again.

8. Same for pies. Apple. Pumpkin. Mincemeat. Have a slice of each. Or, if you don't like mincemeat, have two apples and one pumpkin. Always have three. When  else do you get to have more than one dessert? Labour Day?

9. Did someone mention fruitcake? Granted, it's loaded with the mandatory celebratory calories, but avoid it at all cost. I mean, have some standards.

10. One final tip: If you don't feel terrible when you leave the party or get up from the table, you haven't been paying attention. Reread tips; start over, but hurry, January is just around the corner.

Remember this motto to live by:

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"

A Casual Conversation with Michael Stephens - A Web conference I attended today.

http://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=3430

 

Michael Stephens teaches at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. Prior to that, he worked in public libraries for 15 years. He is a prolific speaker and blogger. He writes for the ALA TechSource Blog as well as his own Tame the Web blog.

The Casual Conversations series is designed to be up-close and personal from a respectable online distance. While there are many conferences (in-person, online, and in-world) where librarians can hear leaders in the field make formal presentations about interesting projects, there are few opportunities to hear these same leaders discuss informally what they currently are working on, their future plans and goals, the challenges and opportunities facing librarianship, their personal pet peeves, etc.

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After I figured out that 1 pm meant Central not Eastern time, it mostly went well. I had to disconnect from our corporate network and go wireless as our firewall blocked the conference application port, but I have workarounds.

The sound was a little troublesome, Tom from OPAL was very quiet, Michael was loud.

Michael is a good speaker, clear, concise, persuasive.

He waffled around my question, but it was a tricky one.

I feel like I am missing out on some things by having an old phone that is not easy to text or browse with.

It was a wide ranging conversation with participants chiming in on all topics. It was nice to be a part of it.

 

Thanks Tom, Michael, and all the rest.

Scientific Researchers and Web 2.0: Social 'NotWorking'?

Found on Joanna Scott's blog  http://network.nature.com/people/joannascott/blog

 

 

TalkScience@bl.uk is a series of events hosted by the British Library, providing opportunities to inform, engage, debate and network with scientists and all those who use scientific information.

Wednesday 24 September 2008

• Is Web2.0 all about attitudes or technologies?
• What can Web2.0 do for your research?
• As a scientist, are there good reasons for getting involved beyond social ‘not working’?
• Web3.0: another buzzword or a semantic revolution for science on the web?

Timo Hannay is the Publishing Director of Nature.com. With a background in biosciences research, Timo oversees Nature’s growing portfolio of web-based activities including Nature Network, Connotea, and other initiatives using Web2.0 functionality to connect and involve researchers.

Timo will be speaking live in the British Library and the event will be simultaneously screened on Second Nature. Following Timo’s talk, attendees from both the British Library and Second Nature will have the chance to question Timo and discuss the topics raised.

Speaker: Dr Timo Hannay, Nature Publishing Group

Date: Wednesday 24th September

Time: 18:00 – 20:30 London time, 10:00 – 12:30 PDT.

Location: Second Nature Island

All welcome!

October Puppy Class

Believe it or not, these are all different puppies. Most of the litter (there were 12 puppies in the litter) were at this class.

They all spent most of the hour sleeping after they got their shots.

 

 

   

C-61 on copyright reform died on the table

Found when reading "Library Boy"  http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/

 

 

With yesterday's dissolution of Canada's 39th federal Parliament, many important bills automatically died.
35 bills in fact, according to a tabulation in the Sept. 8, 2008 issue of The Hill Times:

"Of the 35 bills that died, 20 were at second reading in the House, nine were at the committee stage, one was at report stage and two were at third reading. Three were being studied in the Senate, two of which were at second reading and one was at committee."

Among the biggies:

• C-10 on film tax credits
• C-17 on immigration selection
• C-19 on Senate appointments
• C-25 on youth criminal justice
• C-27 on identity theft
• C-51 on food safety
• C-61 on copyright reform

SLA 23 things Session 5 - Week 9 Podcasts, Video & Downloadable Audio

Added Podcast to my spell check dictionary :)

20. Youtube - just gotta love it!  Where else can you find:

your friends children learning to kayak

Stu Grimson one timing Reid Simpson, and

Mr Bill

all in the same place.

 

21. podcasts

A couple of years ago Xerox gave every employee a little MP3 player to listen to corporate messages via podcasts. I never saw anyone using it. It had the smallest memory I had ever seen on a portable device. But they were thinking toward the future.

 

22. NetLibrary and audio books

I have been using audio books from my local public library for a while. Oakville Public Library is quite the progressive place these days and has been written up for it when they launced their site and catalogue using bibliocommons!! -- http://www.opl.on.ca

Word Search Creator

here is one created from the words from my tag cloud

SLA 23 things Session 4 - Week 8 Online Applications & Tools

looked at Mindomo and the other mind mapping tools. I have yet to find a use for these. Perhaps my mind is unmapable :)

Looked at 43 things and remember the milk.  If i used my phone for these things they would have more use for me, but i have an old simple phone and an expensive data/text plan, so i don't use it.  Someday I will have a blackberry or a treo, but not yet.

I already have home pages and the full acrobat programme, so i did not look at the Personal home pages or PDF converters sections.

Looked at lazybase as i am looking for a good (GOOD) shared database programme. Lazybase is not it. No way to import existing databases, no reporting functions, no mailmerge functions, etc.

Looked at zoho. It looks interesting  and usable for someone already willing to use project management software.

I have used google docs and spreadsheets to try to collaborate. Again, i run up against non-techie people who are not willing to learn new technologies.

 

 

The sites I visited that struck me as interesting and potential useful to me were:

wufoo - bookmarked this one for future use

Dabble - interesting but not free

my heritage - interesting - free software, free pages. needs more exploration. Definitely bookmarked

Geni - will look into this when I have more time

 

 

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SLA 23 things Session 4 - Week 7 Wiki

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I am a wikivangelist. I push wikis wherever I feel they will be the best solution. I even have my CFUW Oakville club using them and believe me they are not the most technological of women :) (sorry ladies, but you really aren't)

I had to push to get wiki software installed at work, but now they are all over the corporation. Our location were early adopters and there was a lot of pushback. Once other departments started seeing what they could do other IT departments installed them and we were off.

Carolyne's Olympic Standings

Medals / million population of country

 

	Population	Country	G	S	B	T	Gold/ million	Silver/ million	Bronze/ million	Total/ million
1.	2029000	SLO - Slovenia	1	1	2	4	0.4929	0.4929	0.9857	1.9714
2.	3002000	ARM - Armenia			5	5	0.0000	0.0000	1.6656	1.6656
3.	21394309	AUS - Australia	11	10	12	33	0.5142	0.4674	0.5609	1.5425
4.	2714000	JAM - Jamaica	2	2		4	0.7369	0.7369	0.0000	1.4738
5.	4274800	NZL - New Zealand	2	1	3	6	0.4679	0.2339	0.7018	1.4036
6.	9690000	BLR - Belarus	1	3	7	11	0.1032	0.3096	0.7224	1.1352
7.	5489022	DEN - Denmark	2	1	3	6	0.3644	0.1822	0.5465	1.0931
8.	4778500	NOR - Norway	1	2	2	5	0.2093	0.4185	0.4185	1.0464
9.	11268000	CUB - Cuba	1	5	5	11	0.0887	0.4437	0.4437	0.9762
10.	2629000	MGL - Mongolia	1	1		2	0.3804	0.3804	0.0000	0.7607
11.	1333000	TRI - Trinidad/Tobago		1		1	0.0000	0.7502	0.0000	0.7502
12.	1340600	EST - Estonia		1		1	0.0000	0.7459	0.0000	0.7459
13.	5402273	SVK - Slovakia	3	1		4	0.5553	0.1851	0.0000	0.7404
14.	16445000	NED - Netherlands	3	5	4	12	0.1824	0.3040	0.2432	0.7297
15.	4395000	GEO - Georgia	2		1	3	0.4551	0.0000	0.2275	0.6826
16.	7637300	SUI - Switzerland	2		3	5	0.2619	0.0000	0.3928	0.6547
17.	8467000	AZE - Azerbaijan	1	2	2	5	0.1181	0.2362	0.2362	0.5905
18.	5318105	FIN - Finland	1	1	1	3	0.1880	0.1880	0.1880	0.5641
19.	15422000	KAZ - Kazakhstan	1	3	4	8	0.0648	0.1945	0.2594	0.5187
20.	10043000	HUN - Hungary		4	1	5	0.0000	0.3983	0.0996	0.4979
21.	10403136	CZE - <	2	3		5	0.1922	0.2884	0.0000	0.4806
22.	48224000	KOR - Korea	8	9	6	23	0.1659	0.1866	0.1244	0.4769
23.	60587300	GBR - Great Britain	12	7	8	27	0.1981	0.1155	0.1320	0.4456
24.	4555000	CRO - Croatia		1	1	2	0.0000	0.2195	0.2195	0.4391
25.	64473140	FRA - France	4	11	13	28	0.0620	0.1706	0.2016	0.4343
26.	7640238	BUL - Bulgaria	1	1	1	3	0.1309	0.1309	0.1309	0.3927
27.	5317000	KGZ - Kyrgyzstan		1	1	2	0.0000	0.1881	0.1881	0.3762
28.	21438000	ROU - Romania	4	1	3	8	0.1866	0.0466	0.1399	0.3732
29.	8340924	AUT - Austria		1	2	3	0.0000	0.1199	0.2398	0.3597
30.	46059306	UKR - Ukraine	5	3	8	16	0.1086	0.0651	0.1737	0.3474
31.	9215021	SWE - Sweden		3		3	0.0000	0.3256	0.0000	0.3256
32.	59619290	ITA - Italy	6	6	6	18	0.1006	0.1006	0.1006	0.3019
33.	13349000	ZIM - Zimbabwe	1	3		4	0.0749	0.2247	0.0000	0.2996
34.	3343000	PAN - Panama	1			1	0.2991	0.0000	0.0000	0.2991
35.	3361100	LTU - Lithuania			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.2975	0.2975
36.	82191000	GER - Germany	9	7	7	23	0.1095	0.0852	0.0852	0.2798
37.	33350000	CAN - Canada	2	3	4	9	0.0600	0.0900	0.1199	0.2699
38.	11147000	GRE - Greece		1	2	3	0.0000	0.0897	0.1794	0.2691
39.	141888900	RUS - Russian Fed.	8	13	15	36	0.0564	0.0916	0.1057	0.2537
40.	23790000	PRK - DPR Korea	2	1	3	6	0.0841	0.0420	0.1261	0.2522
41.	304900000	USA - United States	22	24	26	72	0.0722	0.0787	0.0853	0.2361
42.	4588600	SIN - Singapore		1		1	0.0000	0.2179	0.0000	0.2179
43.	9858000	SRB - Serbia		1	1	2	0.0000	0.1014	0.1014	0.2029
44.	37538000	KEN - Kenya	2	3	2	7	0.0533	0.0799	0.0533	0.1865
45.	38115967	POL - Poland	3	3	1	7	0.0787	0.0787	0.0262	0.1837
46.	46063000	ESP - Spain	3	3	2	8	0.0651	0.0651	0.0434	0.1737
47.	127690000	JPN - Japan	8	5	7	20	0.0627	0.0392	0.0548	0.1566
48.	6585000	TOG - Togo			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.1519	0.1519
49.	6736000	TJK - Tajikistan			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.1485	0.1485
50.	27372000	UZB - Uzbekistan		1	2	3	0.0000	0.0365	0.0731	0.1096
51.	10327000	TUN - Tunisia	1			1	0.0968	0.0000	0.0000	0.0968
52.	10623000	POR - Portugal		1		1	0.0000	0.0941	0.0000	0.0941
53.	22900000	TPE - Chinese <>			2	2	0.0000	0.0000	0.0873	0.0873
54.	13341000	ECU - Ecuador		1		1	0.0000	0.0750	0.0000	0.0750
55.	16763470	CHI - Chile		1		1	0.0000	0.0597	0.0000	0.0597
56.	33858000	ALG - Algeria		1	1	2	0.0000	0.0295	0.0295	0.0591
57.	18549000	CMR - Cameroon	1			1	0.0539	0.0000	0.0000	0.0539
58.	1325600000	CHN - China	39	14	14	67	0.0294	0.0106	0.0106	0.0505
59.	44513090	COL - Colombia		1	1	2	0.0000	0.0225	0.0225	0.0449
60.	70586256	TUR - Turkey		2	1	3	0.0000	0.0283	0.0142	0.0425
61.	79221000	ETH - Ethiopia	2	1		3	0.0252	0.0126	0.0000	0.0379
62.	27170000	MAS - Malaysia		1		1	0.0000	0.0368	0.0000	0.0368
63.	31224000	MAR - Morocco			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.0320	0.0320
64.	187495000	BRA - Brazil	1		5	6	0.0053	0.0000	0.0267	0.0320
65.	40301927	ARG - Argentina			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.0248	0.0248
66.	231627000	INA - Indonesia	1	1	3	5	0.0043	0.0043	0.0130	0.0216
67.	47850700	RSA - South Africa		1		1	0.0000	0.0209	0.0000	0.0209
68.	63038247	THA - Thailand	1			1	0.0159	0.0000	0.0000	0.0159
69.	75212000	EGY - Egypt			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.0133	0.0133
70.	87375000	VIE - Vietnam		1		1	0.0000	0.0114	0.0000	0.0114
71.	106682500	MEX - Mexico			1	1	0.0000	0.0000	0.0094	0.0094
72.	1136876600	IND - India	1			1	0.0009	0.0000	0.0000	0.0009

Using up leftover food.

 

This is a site from the UK, but the idea of searching for what is left in the fridge to find recipes that use those ingredients appeals to me.

http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com

Librarian Day in the Life meme - day 5 - a do-over

Since I was home with a migraine on Friday, here is an actual fifth day.

 

8:15

• email
• rebooted
• read blogs
• problems with email, called IT
• rebooted again - it is better, but not great
• downloaded two XRCC patents
• forwarded one patent to inventors
• requested book from other library
• MSN spam. I have blocked 3 already today
• replied to email re being in a distribution list for corporate terminations
• replied to annoying email from ARK-Group. No, I don't want your report.
• looked up priority patent information and sent results to requester
• looked up report pricing and sent to requester
• tried NBC streaming Olympic coverage. It is a better picture than CBC, but the CBC interface is simpler to  use.
• sent email to  Science Direct as a firsts step in sorting out an ordering issue.
• discussed order with requester
• discussed migraines with a visitor
• checked "library typo of the day" - calender - except that is a correct spelling in papermaking.

  http://www.answers.com/calender&r=67

  calender: n. - A machine that smoothes or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers v. - Press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets.

• bathroom break  (do you really care?)
• updated tag cloud on blog
• reviewed requests for this afternoon
• did I say my manager is on vacation for two weeks :), then I am on vacation for one week.

lunch

• fire alarm in middle of lunch. Got to stand outside in the warm sunny weather for half an hour.
• submitted PO for new monitor (20") -- sometime size does matter
• posted these day in the life postings to our internal blog site.
• once I was on the internal site, I felt the need to make some comments.
• checked out the new free covers at library thing. Trying to figure out if we can use this.
• updated one of the 5 internal web sites I maintain
• handled two reference requests (a citation search and a supplier search)
• still getting msn spam
• search for internal reports
• had 26 laboratory notebooks returned, checked in, labelled
• twittered a bit
• sent Daniel Lee a message
• send Daniel Lee info
• going home to watch Olympics

A typo in Library Typo??

"library typo of the day" - calender

 except that is a correct spelling in papermaking

http://www.answers.com/calender&r=67

calender: n. - A machine that smoothes or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers v. - Press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets.

 

I added a comment first thing this morning, but it has not been posted yet.  Hopefully no one went in and changed all the paper or cloth related calendering references to calendaring.

 

NEW:

an addition at 2:30 -- I am now an astute reader :)

http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/2008/08/calender-for-calendar.html

Not really, I just work in a library where we have materials on calendering of paper.

A Day in the Life meme - Day 5

Friday August 8, 2008

migraine

stayed home

checked email and forwarded some

mostly lay around suffering

A Day in the Life meme - Day 4

Thursday August 7, 2008

8:15 am

• email
• coffee
• reader
• coffee
• email
• checked library typo of the day -- "ligth" -- in our catalogue - found one - fixed it
• prepared for budget and journal renewal review meeting with Library Users' Committee
• paid Professional Engineer Ontario fees online
• welcomed one of our retirees who visits regularly to catch up on his technical reading
• updated calendars
• arranged with IT to have some minor work done on my laptop over lunch
• Library committee meeting went very well

Lunch

1 pm

• registered for Sirsi Dynix course by Michael Stephens
• Event Title: Taming Technolust: Planning in a Hyperlinked World
• Event Date: August 26, 2008
• Event Time: 11 a.m. Eastern
• confirmed new subscription
• looked into acquiring copy of market report
• found hard to find article
• received confirmation in mail for course and added to calendar
• handled mail
• forwarded requests to staff
• updated training html and cf code
• uploaded searches

 

 

 

 

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A Day in the Life meme - Day 3

Wednesday August 6, 2008

8:10

• pick up newspapers
• arrive in a caffeine deprived state
• drink coffee
• read Google reader items
• check email for urgent items
• since I have the full acrobat programme I do various things for staff -- today cut out 8 pictures from a document and sent to requester - he later asked why I did not do it last night at home because he had waited up for me to send it to him :)
• finalized plans for getting lab notebooks scanned
• read and/or deleted email from inbox - not much today
• filed email - I get over 100 a day and need to spend time every couple of weeks organizing and weeding them - my goal is an empty inbox.
• answer question on what kind of paper can go in printer.
• phone call from PIRA in the UK (love that accent) asking about a journal renewal
• straightened out that renewal on our end and theirs
• check email
• forwarded PIRA email to assistant for her to handle
• phone call from journal vendor. Set appointment for end of month to discuss quote. Invited assistant to participate
• wrote a blog post on http://www.canada411.ca
• called home

10 am

• starting a headache. off to get food and take pills
• BLT with cheese - yummy
• checked library typo of the day against our catalogue - impared - no matches were found
• updated online calendars
• continued with paper monster - filled my recycle bin in my office
• created an account with Collections Canada for ISBNs (for CFUW cookbook)
• filing of paper from paper monster
• check email
• checked status of ID ordered yesterday
• blogged http://www.pandora.com
• updated training database with conferences etc.
• sent appreciation award nomination for staff member

Lunch

• lunch with my peeps (husband, daughter, son). They brought a picnic lunch and we ate outside (note to self - tell facilities that picnic tables need painting)

1 pm

• listening to this cool music site http://www.pandora.com  Only works on US IP addresses, not Canadian ones so I cannot listen at home.
• continued updating training database with conferences etc. - added approx. 25 courses and conference to database. Time consuming.
• All staff meeting 3-4.

4 pm

• request from corporate library in USA to test remote Z39.50 catalogue access. Still not working. Replied as such.
• headache still not gone - more pills
• talked to people dropping by as they return from staff meeting - I enjoy it, but it is time consuming.
• cleaned up learning/training database display on web page (cold fusion, html, dreamweaver, etc.)
• check email
• watered plants
• set up new account for new employee and sent him a ton of info on what we have, what we can do for him, how we can make things easier,etc.
• called Dog Guides of Canada to check a few things on the foster puppy we will be picking up next week. this is our second one. The first one can be seen at flickr casper set

6 pm

• soccer practice for kid#2
• home paper monster / pay bills / filing
• menu planning etc for company coming for the weekend

 

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Pandora

What is Pandora?

Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you enjoy music you already know, and to help you discover new music you'll love.

It's powered by the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken, the Music Genome Project: a crazy project started back in early 2000 to capture the complex musical DNA of songs using a large team of highly-trained musicians.

Just tell us one of your favourite songs or artists and we'll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the musical universe.

You can listen to Pandora on the Web, Pandora on the Go, or Pandora in the Home.

 

I love this concept.

 

 

 

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Canada411

I needed to look up a phone number today and was very pleasantly surprised to see that the old standby canada411.ca has upgraded.

The look is cleaner and easier to use.

But best of all, when I found my person, I was offered the option to save, email to a friend and share on Facebook. I chose save and was offered quick links to save in Outlook, Outlook express, lotus notes, lotus organizer and palm desktop. Also options for saving as word or PDF to my desktop. And printing. And add to Facebook, myspace, yahoo notepad, digg, del.i.cio.us, Google bookmarks, ask.com, furl and yahoo my web. You can also send it as an email, a text, or IM.

I don't know why I would post someone's phone and address in Facebook, but some of the other options are quite nice.

I saved to outlook and it was quick and easy.

Another cool addition is that when you chose someone, it shows you a map (using Microsoft virtual earth) to their address and offers to give you directions to get there.

Other features made easier to use: reverse look up; proximity search (find who lives near you, a location, a phone number, etc.);

Now off I go to waste time and add other people to Outlook.

quick and easy.

A Day in the Life meme - Day 2

Tuesday August 6

 

8:30 am

• Came in early to make up hours to leave early on Friday (my sister is visiting next weekend)
• Considered the fact that this is not a typical week what with holiday on Monday and leaving early on Friday, but then, none are
• Checked email
• requested an invention disclosure document
• forwarded a couple of things of interest to various staff (XRCC staff, not library staff) members
• started this meme :)
• downloaded list of knovel titles we subscribe to
• sent email to knovel support requesting MARC records for our titles
• fixed typo in library newsletter published last Friday - both the publisher version and the web version
• reviewed google reader content and forwarded items of interest to staff
• tried to figure out why the first DayInTheLife post is not showing on my blog - gave up - it will show up sometime
• refreshed book display
• sent updated meeting notice to Library Users' Committee members (meeting is on Thursday) with room number
• reviewed notes for lunch meeting (non work related CFUW meeting to organize part of CFUW Oakville 60th anniversary celebrations)
• checked today's "typo of the day for librarians" (monthy for monthly) in our catalogue -- no matches were found!!
• added a couple of trial blogs to my reader
• tried to upload a newsletter to our nano files - problems with the software
• rebooted computer and went to get breakfast while it was restarting
• after reboot, all is well, files uploaded properly
• reconfirmed staff meeting this afternoon - it has been cancelled - gained an hour of my life back.

10 am

• chemical abstracts search on XXXXXXX for XXXXXXX :)
• set up folder for august searches and added results from above search
• sent results to requester with summary and explanation of search methods
• merged and corrected library online passwords file
• merged and corrected my personal online passwords file

11 am

• attended corporate communications meeting online
• participated in second life meeting.
• the second life meeting consisted of us trying to work out a way of watching the communications meeting in second life together.

LUNCH

• added knovel widget to web page
• sent erroneous email to entire building instead of one person. Received multiple "humourous" comments from various staff members. Looking for large rock to crawl under
• replied to my manager (perhaps I shouldn't have) who felt the need to alert me to a typo in the erroneous email - wtf - ironically he had a typo in his
• went for short walk to get a drink -- diet coke people, diet coke :)
• made appt for massage on Friday
• set up appt for 4 pm to assist someone installing software
• pointed another person to corporate library resources
• started on "paper monster". It lives in my desk drawer. It is funny how things lose importance the longer they sit in a drawer. Tossing most things into recycle bin.
• read email and blog posts
• answered cataloguing question

4 pm

• filled out credit card dispute form for a library service we cancelled but they billed anyway, printed all email, and mailed to mastercard
• tried to install software, but the uninstall would not work
• gossip
• watched the lightning and wind and rain out the window and wondered when the power would go out
• updated database
• investigated method for scanning lab notebook - rush

5:30   go home

6:00 eat

6:30 soccer for one child

7:15 CFUW cookbook meeting

 

http://librarydayinthelife.pbwiki.com/

 

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A day in the life meme - Day 1

Monday August 5

Civic Holiday in  Canada

XRCC Closed

 

• Checked email from home
• forwarded a couple of things of interest to various staff
• (XRCC staff, not library staff) members

 

http://librarydayinthelife.pbwiki.com/

 

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August 1, 2008 10:56 AM PDT Amazon to acquire rare-book site AbeBooks

August 1, 2008 10:56 AM PDT
Amazon to acquire rare-book site AbeBooks


Amazon's book selection is about to grow bigger, older, and rarer. The company announced Friday that it will acquire AbeBooks.com, which specializes in out-of-print book sales.

No financial details of the acquisition were given, but Amazon, headquartered in Seattle, expects the deal to close before the end of its fourth quarter.

British-Columbia based AbeBooks, established in 1996, sells more than 110 million titles of used, rare, and out-of-print books listed by thousands of independent sellers around the world. In 2002, the company began to sell some books through Amazon's Marketplace program, which enabled its 13,500 book sellers to list inventory in Amazon.com's catalog.

Following the acquisition by Amazon, AbeBooks will continue to operate as a stand-alone company and will have control over its global Web sites.

I love Abebooks (but I am not sure I would call them a rare book site, more of a used book site). I love that they are Canadian. Now they are not really Canadian. I hope Amazon leaves them alone.

My Firefox Extensions

In no particular order

• colorful tabs
  
• delicious bookmarks
  
• extended copy menu
  
• facebook toolbar
  
• google reader notifier
  
• ie tab
  
• imdb preview
  
• linkedIn companion for firefox
  
• meetimer
  
• read it later
  
• stumble upon
  
• undo closed tabs button
  
• uploadr for flickr
  
• url fixer
  
• zemanta
  
• zotero
• twitterfox
  

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SLA 23 things Session 3 - Week 6 Play Week

 

13 - image generators.

I already posted my created avatar in a previous post.

14. LibraryThing

I had an account on that almost immediately. I also have library thing on my blog (look over there to your left.... now down a little, a little more... there)

15. Rollyo

Now,this is newer. I tried Rollyo when it first came out, did not have much luck and gave up.  Off Ii go to try it again...

...

..

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..

...

I'm back.

Still not sure how i would use this. I will keep it in mind in case something comes up that it will be useful for.

 

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SLA 23 things - session 3 - Week 5 RSS and Newsreaders

 

Since I already subscribe to over 125 RSS feeds on Google reader this should be an easy week. I used to use Bloglines, but transferred all to Google when reader came out. I liked it better.

I have a variety of topics I follow. Some are personal, some are professional, some are in the field of research we do at MPOW. I forward items regularly to staff, family, friends, and others.

Part of this weeks challenge is to train someone else to use RSS. I have run 3-4 RSS training courses here at MPOW. I have another one later in the year.

 

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my 3d avatar

New association to fight information overload

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I keep going back to these press releases and reading them. I still am a little confused and dismayed and disappointed and annoyed and ... and don't really know how I feel about it.

http://www.pr-inside.com/xerox-joins-iorg-to-combat-information-r704607.htm

"Founded this summer, IORG's mission is to build awareness of the world's greatest challenge to productivity, conduct research, help define best practices, contribute to the creation of solutions and resources, offer guidance and facilitation and help make the business case for fighting information overload. "

 

Is that not what librarians have been doing for centuries? Fighting information overload?

 

And now MPOW has joined in the fight.

 

http://www.iorgforum.org/

Their mission

"We work together to build awareness of the world's greatest challenge to productivity, conduct research, help define best practices, contribute to the creation of solutions, share information and resources, offer guidance and facilitation, and help make the business case for fighting information overload."

 

So, how do you feel about an organization set up by big business to fight information overload and reduce information pollution?