May 2012
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Disorganised data, and other dastardly deeds
So I’m really pleased to be back in the Information Centre here at Judge Business School, and one of my first tasks was to attend a PhD research lunch: sandwiches on my first day? I think I can handle that!
The session was hosted by two former colleagues of mine at the University Library, and was centred around data management. Now librarians love the idea of data management, but we do...
April 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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Things to cut before closing libraries: Why not... →
leaveourlibrariesalone:
I love the Queen. She’s great isn’t she? She’s like your gran. Like your incredibly rich gran who has a lovely range of brooches and hats. And this year is her Diamond Jubilee. Woohoo! Get that bunting out and have a street party. Or, as the government would have it, “get that lady a new bloody great boat”.
Now, much as I love a good boat (who wouldn’t love that as a...
November 2011
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August 2011
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An extra bite of the extra thing- CC images
by Taekwonweirdo
I’m responding to my recent Cam23 2.0 post on using ImageCodr to smarten up your CC attributions for flickr images. It’s a neat tool, but not neat enough it seems. Some of you folk want to move things around and fiddle with the settings- more power to you!
We use ImageCodr to attribute our images on the Judge Business School Information Services website,...
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July 2011
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WatchClick and the awesomeness begins.
From seawitchery others.
June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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UK public libraries: my own experience
I’m a bit late to the table on this one, but I’ve been drafting this personal memory for a while now about how important public libraries were to me as a child, it’s been inspired by the stories I’ve read as part of the Save Libraries Campaign. I’d like to say from the outset that this is not about the libraries we have today. When we talk about saving our public...
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The Winners & Losers of Social Networking, via... →
Mashable says
It goes without saying that Facebook is the network du jour, but even though the reigning champion’s user stats keep soaring, social networking as a whole might be leveling off. Nevertheless, there are still scores of other highly competitive social sites that are waxing and waning; and different networks and apps are more popular in specific geographic areas, with certain...
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Travelling light- adventures of a mobile librarian
Ok, so I don’t mean one of these babies…
More one of these…
In the last few weeks I have tried to do as much work as a possibly could on a smartphone. Well Ange, why would you want to ruin your eyesight and cripple your thumbs on that tiny keyboard?
Because:
A) We have a departmental iPhone.
B) I see more and more of our students using their smartphones in the library....
March 2011
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February 2011
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under popculture,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #popculture, #libraries, #socialmedia
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Reading List Round-up 16 February 2011
Featuring: IBM know-it-alls progressing from chess to Jeopardy!- what’s next- Angry Birds? The eternal question of Facebook: friend or foe is mooted once again, frakking awesome librarians rear their heads, the ebooks fight continues: ding! ding! round 167,215. And finally… don’t say it with diamonds, say it with PERL- geek love is the big finish.
What is Skynet? Only kidding!
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January 2011
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Buy! Buy! Buy!
Library Day in the Life: Part the Second (where I spend money)
My kickstep will kick your kickstep!
Having worked behind the scenes for a while I’d forgotten the simple joys associated with buying library ephemera. If you are outside Libraryland you would be forgiven for being blissfully unaware of the specialist library shops that exists and the quantity and range of library-related kit...
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Reading List Round-up 26 January 2011
Facebook in the news
Think before you like…
“Facebook is rolling out a new type of ad that uses your Likes in ads for Starbucks, Levi’s, and Coke. Don’t “Like” it? Too bad..” says IT World’s Dan Tynan
News that Facebook will soon be selling “Sponsored Stories”, allowing companies to turn check-ins and ‘likes’ into viral...
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Hanging on the telephone
Library Day in the Life: Part the First
When he said “with great power there must come great responsibility” I don’t think Spiderman was explicitly thinking about me opening the library, and despite the importance of opening the library properly and on time, I must admit I didn’t quite feel the webby hand of history on my shoulder. I’m new to my job and as a...
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LCSHs of the month: the final instalment?
As I’ve now moved to a new job this is may be my last substantive LCSH post for a while. I’ve just started a secondment to Judge Business School, the business school of the University of Cambridge. I’ll be spending the next 10 months as their Deputy Librarian, and I’m hoping that this will be a completely fresh experience for me, and that I’ll be able to take a whole...
December 2010
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The Hipster Librarian By Linda Ueki Absher
by TopatoCo
Sometimes it’s Better to Look Like a Librarian Than Be a Librarian.
So why have hipsters latched onto librarians? Because we’re losers, at least in the public’s mind. Ask anyone with French tip nails and a frappuccino, and they’ll pretty much describe us as the Amy Winehouse of occupations: people with odd hair and odder interests. We’re crazy cat...
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November 2010
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WatchJason Fried - “Why Work Doesn’t Happen at Work”
via Brett Kelly
“Trading in your working day for a series of work moments…” sound familiar?
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Library Routes: the best job bar nun.
I’ve been meaning to post about the Library Routes Project for sometime: why am I a librarian and how did I become one? The short answer is because my maths was too dodgy to become an astronaut, my morality was too unorthodox to become a nun, and mostly because there’s no height requirement to be a librarian.
by chuckp
This however, is the longer answer.
I left my Catholic...
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Reading list round up 29th November 2010
Possibly to be renamed the sick as a sick dog edition. Last week was cut short by a nasty stomach bug you really don’t want to know about, but you will want to know what my soon to be poorly eyes were looking at…
Bacon Clock: just one of The Register’s top 10 stupidest apps
The Register rounds up the best and worst of this year’s iPad apps: a review of synching tools,...
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Linked data: a clear and concise explanation.
Ways of thinking about Linked Data
View more presentations from mmmmmrob.
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LSCHs of the month
It has been so long since I updated my feed of new, interesting, and downright bizarre Library of Congress Subject headings that I thought it warranted a blog post rather than just a tweet.
Recent highlights include…
|a Bears as pets- One for Lord Byron
|a De la Bat family- I want that name: Ange de la Bat. Catchy!
|a Hardware Trojans (Computers)- If it weren’t for the qualifier...
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Social Media and it impact on Information Library...
Social media and its impact on Information Library Services on Prezi
My first experiment with Prezi, the accompanying text is available here
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Reading list round up 20 October 2010-ish...
This ought to be called the BRB edition. I’m back from a very restful week off, and these are the things I was reading just before I left
Foursquare hits four million members
I’ve been following Fourquare avidly for sometime now. The combination of social networking, targeted offers and the gaming aspect of mayorships and badge-collecting makes it look like a success story....
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October 2010
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by GeoShore
From John Kirriemuir
I’ve been using the Keep Calm and Carry On concept to make posters for the University Library Staff Club, but this beats my slogans hands down. A great design and a great library message!
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Reading list round up: 15 October 2010
I’m hoping this will be a regular post, just a little look at things I’ve been glancing at recently.
We need more Bobbies on the tweet…
A flurry of stories about yesterday’s tweet-a-thon from Greater Manchester Police who logged each 999 call they received. Incidents were from the mundane to the disturbing to the down right surreal. An attempt to illustrate just one...
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September 2010
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Check Out: How to Get Value out of Foursquare...
From nerdgap:
“Yesterday afternoon, I published the following message to Twitter while sitting in the waiting area at a car wash where I was getting our van swabbed up:
“I was just about to check in from a car wash on foursquare when I realized how unbelievably banal and stupid it would be to do so.”
That got me thinking about all of the location-based networks that have...