Comments for The UnFiltered Librarian http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com Library stuff, the Good the Bad and the Ugly. Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:57:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Post #4 Librarian Migrations by Alexwebmaster http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/post-4-librarian-migrations/#comment-32 Alexwebmaster Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:57:04 +0000 http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/post-4-librarian-migrations/#comment-32 Hello webmaster I would like to share with you a link to your site write me here preonrelt@mail.ru Hello webmaster
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]]> Comment on Bad User or Bad Librarian? by carp http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/bad-user-or-bad-librarian/#comment-31 carp Wed, 28 May 2008 21:01:17 +0000 http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/bad-user-or-bad-librarian/#comment-31 carp says : I absolutely agree with this ! carp says : I absolutely agree with this !

]]> Comment on Bad User or Bad Librarian? by JR http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/bad-user-or-bad-librarian/#comment-19 JR Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:45:05 +0000 http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/bad-user-or-bad-librarian/#comment-19 She should be reported. They should get someone in there who doesn't make excuses for DOING THEIR JOB. 3 cheers for your tenacity. She should be reported. They should get someone in there who doesn’t make excuses for DOING THEIR JOB. 3 cheers for your tenacity.

]]> Comment on something funny by Bill G. http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/something-funny/#comment-17 Bill G. Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:14:45 +0000 http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/something-funny/#comment-17 How about hebrarian? Or is that a Hebrew librian? How about hebrarian? Or is that a Hebrew librian?

]]> Comment on Post #5 The Act of Creation by Emilie http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/post-5-the-act-of-creation/#comment-16 Emilie Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:06:53 +0000 http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/post-5-the-act-of-creation/#comment-16 I know what you mean! I didn't really expect to enjoy coding, and certainly didn't anticipate the level of satisfaction I've taken in piecing together my very amateur pages. Your piano comparison is apt in another way, too: the closer you are to an artistic work, the harder it is to see the glitches sometimes. I don't want to think about how many times I asked Michael to help me out with something that should have been immediately obvious to me. Always good to have an impartial observer. Can't wait to see your finished product! I know what you mean! I didn’t really expect to enjoy coding, and certainly didn’t anticipate the level of satisfaction I’ve taken in piecing together my very amateur pages. Your piano comparison is apt in another way, too: the closer you are to an artistic work, the harder it is to see the glitches sometimes. I don’t want to think about how many times I asked Michael to help me out with something that should have been immediately obvious to me. Always good to have an impartial observer.
Can’t wait to see your finished product!

]]> Comment on Post #4 Librarian Migrations by karenlis753 http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/post-4-librarian-migrations/#comment-15 karenlis753 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:34:38 +0000 http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/post-4-librarian-migrations/#comment-15 Thanks for sharing the info from the West Palm Beach library. They sure captured the South Florida feel in their redesign. Love that carpet with the fish swimming in the ocean! They transformed it into such a warm and inviting space with the furnishings, atmosphere, programs, people, and services. Great to see stats on the increase in services, patrons, budget, etc. It fits right in with all the re-development of the downtown West Palm Beach area (I lived in the area for several years and when I went back to visit this spring, I noted all the rehab going on in central WPB. Quite a transformation!). The GASP model they followed is a useful tool when evaluating our own libraries. Thanks for sharing the info from the West Palm Beach library. They sure captured the South Florida feel in their redesign. Love that carpet with the fish swimming in the ocean! They transformed it into such a warm and inviting space with the furnishings, atmosphere, programs, people, and services. Great to see stats on the increase in services, patrons, budget, etc. It fits right in with all the re-development of the downtown West Palm Beach area (I lived in the area for several years and when I went back to visit this spring, I noted all the rehab going on in central WPB. Quite a transformation!). The GASP model they followed is a useful tool when evaluating our own libraries.

]]> Comment on Post #4 Librarian Migrations by bgood http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/post-4-librarian-migrations/#comment-14 bgood Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:48:17 +0000 http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/post-4-librarian-migrations/#comment-14 I attended ACRL with my wife in Baltimore this spring and they also had a humorous, high-energy speaker. His name was John Waters. Do you see any similarities? I attended ACRL with my wife in Baltimore this spring and they also had a humorous, high-energy speaker. His name was John Waters. Do you see any similarities?

]]> Comment on Post #1 “Podcasting” by macdjame http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/post-1-podcasting/#comment-13 macdjame Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:47:43 +0000 http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/post-1-podcasting/#comment-13 Reading more about podcasting I was really amazing at how easy it is to subscribe to a podcast and to automatically download them. I was also surprised at how easy it is to create your own podcasts. This sort of technology has an incredible number of uses in both public and academic libraries. Podcasts could be used to provide patrons with tour information to help guide them through the library, to provide instructional guides on a particular subject or to capture and share lectures by professors or guest speakers. Very cool technology with so many great possibilities for libraries. Reading more about podcasting I was really amazing at how easy it is to subscribe to a podcast and to automatically download them. I was also surprised at how easy it is to create your own podcasts. This sort of technology has an incredible number of uses in both public and academic libraries. Podcasts could be used to provide patrons with tour information to help guide them through the library, to provide instructional guides on a particular subject or to capture and share lectures by professors or guest speakers. Very cool technology with so many great possibilities for libraries.

]]> Comment on Post #2 Virtual Worlds; A Waste of Time? by Tim http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/post-2/#comment-12 Tim Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:33:07 +0000 http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/post-2/#comment-12 Hey there. I met you—briefly—at the ALA. Congrats on the blog. Nice visual design. I think people often use technologies for the wrong things at first. So, there's a big SL library with posters on the wall about Womens History Month. But SL is a *lousy* content management system. I gather you didn't go to the talk on SL at ALA. I didn't either, but Abby—LibraryThing's librarian—did. And we had a long talk with the SL representative. LT experimented with "head boxes" on SL—boxes that floated above your head showing one or more of your favorite books. He was very into that idea—the mixture of the social and the possibility for content on the back-end. I imagine a second-life library island where, the books you've taken out recently float above your head. It might even be fun to marry the quintessentially *physical* world of Dewey with second life. Lounges for the discussion of Philosophy, Psychology and Religion, etc. with yours and others books left around these rooms as appropriate. Thinking out loud... Hey there. I met you—briefly—at the ALA. Congrats on the blog. Nice visual design.

I think people often use technologies for the wrong things at first. So, there’s a big SL library with posters on the wall about Womens History Month.

But SL is a *lousy* content management system. I gather you didn’t go to the talk on SL at ALA. I didn’t either, but Abby—LibraryThing’s librarian—did. And we had a long talk with the SL representative. LT experimented with “head boxes” on SL—boxes that floated above your head showing one or more of your favorite books. He was very into that idea—the mixture of the social and the possibility for content on the back-end. I imagine a second-life library island where, the books you’ve taken out recently float above your head. It might even be fun to marry the quintessentially *physical* world of Dewey with second life. Lounges for the discussion of Philosophy, Psychology and Religion, etc. with yours and others books left around these rooms as appropriate.

Thinking out loud…

]]> Comment on Post #3 Wikis and Work by Semiramis http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/post-3-wikis-and-work/#comment-11 Semiramis Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:59:50 +0000 http://unfilteredlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/post-3-wikis-and-work/#comment-11 Comment #4 I find wikis very helpful too. In fact when I am at the reference desk and a student asks a question and I feel I am not sure how to answer it. I do a quick search on wikipedia and get a quick idea about the subject and then do my search on the SWAN OPAC or First Search OCLC catalogs. I find Wikipedia really handy when I meet a student who needs a shoprt biography on a particular person right now, right away or tomorrow. Then in the middle of the reference interview, I discover all of the potential information available in the library's circulating collection are currently checked-out. In some instances you might have the choice to send patrons to visit another library or better yet, use the interlibrary loan services. In many situations students don't have a ride to go to a neigboring library or they simply don't give us enough time to try and interlibrary loan the books because it usually takes at least three to four working days for books to arrive. So when I find myself in a situation like this one, I do a quick wikipedia search with the student and then search for supporting information from books found in the reference biography collection. Sounds like I am doing double work, but there is a reason why I don't just print out the information from wikipedia and hand it to the student. The reason I do this is because the teachers in elementary, highschool and junior colleges in the area I work for, will not accept wikis as a research sources because they are concerned with the accreditability of the information. So as future librarians, how to we convince teachers to support online wikis. Comment #4

I find wikis very helpful too. In fact when I am at the reference desk and a student asks a question and I feel I am not sure how to answer it. I do a quick search on wikipedia and get a quick idea about the subject and then do my search on the SWAN OPAC or First Search OCLC catalogs.

I find Wikipedia really handy when I meet a student who needs a shoprt biography on a particular person right now, right away or tomorrow. Then in the middle of the reference interview, I discover all of the potential information available in the library’s circulating collection are currently checked-out.

In some instances you might have the choice to send patrons to visit another library or better yet, use the interlibrary loan services. In many situations students don’t have a ride to go to a neigboring library or they simply don’t give us enough time to try and interlibrary loan the books because it usually takes at least three to four working days for books to arrive.

So when I find myself in a situation like this one, I do a quick wikipedia search with the student and then search for supporting information from books found in the reference biography collection. Sounds like I am doing double work, but there is a reason why I don’t just print out the information from wikipedia and hand it to the student.

The reason I do this is because the teachers in elementary, highschool and junior colleges in the area I work for, will not accept wikis as a research sources because they are concerned with the accreditability of the information. So as future librarians, how to we convince teachers to support online wikis.

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