IMLS WebWise 2007 – My sleeper-theme
[Image: Ken Hamma, Jay Jordan and Anne Imelda-Radice welcoming IMLS WebWise 2007 attendees] At most conferences I go to, there’s the official theme, and then there’s my personal “sleeper-theme,” some …
Read MoreMaking ideas “sticky”
This has been making the rounds on the book tour: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. I’m interested in the premise, that one can make an …
Read MoreIMLS WebWise 2007 – Get the blow-by-blow
If you’re one of the 150 people who wanted to attend WebWise, but didn’t make the registration in time before all slots were filled, may I suggest you turn your …
Read MoreSpeaking of the symposium…
The deadline to register for our “Discovery to Delivery in New Contexts” symposium is quickly approaching. Please register by March 5th (you must be from an RLG Programs Partner institution …
Read MoreSearch in 2017
On Friday, I attended the long-running “Friday afternoon seminar,” (also known as the “Buckland-Larson-Lynch seminar,” also known by its formal course title…) at UC Berkeley. The seminar is available through …
Read MoreReturn from the Moon…
As Anne has noted, we don’t often blog about personal issues. Keen readers of HangingTogether may have noticed that I have been absent for some time. There’s a good reason …
Read MorePersonal lists and predatory birds
OCLC recently updated the WorldCat.org service with some new features, including a tool that automatically generates pre-formatted citations in a variety of styles. We used to have something similar in …
Read MoreFunctional Requirements for a Global Digital Library?
Richard Johnson, formerly of SPARC and now a special consultant to ARL, has written a useful article on mass digitization partnerships that summarizes some of the key concerns of research …
Read MoreNew Media and Social Memory
While nobody I talked to had heard of this event until about one week before it happened, “New Media and Social Memory” at the UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific …
Read MoreFive minutes to midnight …
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded by a group of Manhattan Project scientists who subsequently became concerned about the danger of nuclear war. The Bulletin’s iconic Doomsday Clock …
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