tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81455209511867296632011-11-21T14:20:19.913-08:00Information architecture, manipulation, cataloging and curation...services & technology for the 21st century library ... Amazon rainforest protection ... organic gardening and food ... sustainable building practices ...Carolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05884798825077700829noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8145520951186729663.post-79265940997404757802008-07-02T10:43:00.000-07:002008-07-02T10:52:09.093-07:00

It seems to me that every conference has a "buzz" topic that everyone is talking about between meetings and programs about it are standing room only. ALA Anaheim seemed to me to be about the future of cataloging and catalogs. There were 2 programs about it and the Sunday one "Creating the Future of the Catalog and Cataloging" was 4 hours long with 4 speakers and a moderator. When I tried to

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After not having gone to ALA for 2 years, I wasn't sure how I would feel going back. But it was great! The meeting highlights for me were: Cataloging Norms, CONSER at large, Top technology trends and the Continuing Resources Cataloging Update.At Cataloging Norms John Reimer (UCLA) and Linda Barnhart (UCSD)gave a joint presentation about WorldCatlocal. These are 2 of the brightest and best in

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Icann? They seem to be the net's "regulator". Four and a half billion new people now have access to the internet through their own script(s). Monumental. Read about it : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7475986.stm ~C

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Now that you have found my blog and at least one other that you might be interested in, let's go on to the next step. Send me a comment to this blog and tell me the name and the URL of the other blog you discovered. Then I'll answer you. ~Carole

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Moving on, it may be time to write again. Last week the UC/OCLC WorldCat local pilot project went "live". Today, Deanna Marcum publicly responded to the Working Group on Bib. Control's report to the LC. I have reduced my carbon footprint with my move to Irvine, very little car use and CSA participation. Unfortunately, Orange Co. does not have the rainforest action groups that the Bay area

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BLOG ACTION DAY - The Environment. Wow. Everyone who blogs is asked to write about the environment today. Just being aware of being in an environment... Interaction... Cause and effect.Just trying your best not to do harm... Others first... Giving what one can.The indigenous peoples of the Amazon are losing their environment to wealthy oil companies exploiting and destroying it for hungry

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NetLibrary ends this list of 23 things to learn. Since my library does not subscribe to audiobooks, I didn't do any downloading. Helene's questions.....I think that one of my favorite things was Flickr and the beautiful color and beautiful images there. I have never really used a camera, and only have digital photos from a trip to Colombia in 2005. But I could put them on Flickr and feel like

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http://colorblender.com. ColorBlender was the site I chose from the Web 2.0 awards list to explore. It's fantastic. You can create color schemes and save them. It was the winner in the "visual arts" category and I can see lots of uses for it personally. In the Library??? I suppose we teach art and a professor might suggest it for a "tool".

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Monday's post about the Tukuna Indian book was written on Zoho and uploaded straight onto my blog. I'm not sure how I could use Zoho for work, but it would be useful for personal things. The first time I tried it I had a lot of trouble getting in the site. I've now finished Thing # 18. ~C

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The Ethnobotany of the Tukuna Indians Amazonas, Colombia / Linda Leigh Glenboski. This small tract details the methodology and findings of Glenboski's ethnobotany field study from July 19722 to February 1973. She records the use of botanicals by the indigenous the Tukuna Indians living along the Rio Loreto-Yacu river which feed the Amazon in Amazonas, Colombia. The majority of

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Wikis, continued...Some hands on today in the sandbox wiki for the class. I added my blog to the "favorites" page but it didn't look like the others. I didn't have time to do the video training on PBwiki, but they looked good. OK. I found the "wiki" and the "blog" policies for my library and saw the 8 or 9 wikis we have for library users. There doesn't seem to be any user postings to the

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#16 So what’s in a wiki? Yes, I use Wikipedia and I like the whole idea behind it. We all know something particular and can contribute it. The community itself can "keep order", rather than using the restrains of multitudes of rules or heavily guarded "knowledge" barriers. Actually, every querie I have made in Wikipedia has been richly rewarded with excellent facts. I have not been tempted to

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#15 -"Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries" from looking at Del.icio.us and Technorati and some readings...User centric, community building, interactive library catalogs ??? Surely this is a contradiction in goals, traditions and current professional standards. It may be more useful to just layer historical sediments and add some 2.0 to the top of the existing substructure. 2.0 will

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Day 1, of year 6 : logged in; subscribed to a new social networking tool mentioned to me by fellow librarian this morning on the way to work; IGoogle home page to read Buddhist thought for the day, primary blogs, check gmail and send Alyssia the URL for del.icio.us, scan news and weather; opened Blogger for secondary blogs and checked updates, then told Lee about new SF phone 311 from "library

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Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati. Task # 13 Del.icio.us. Well, this is one 2.0thing that I have been using for 5-6 months, although just saving and tagging sites. I'm glad to take some time this week and explore Del.icio.us further. This morning I looked at the "popular" list and was amazed to discover that a zen-simplicity site was hugely popular. This augurs well. Most of the rest

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"Premise : The library world is a) dying, and b) not flexible enough to survive." This is the rationale for Alexander leaving the library profession in Canberra. I saved this resignation post from his blog because he hits on some spots that are sore points with me too. He says that most people in the library profession would disagree with his premises...but I definitely agree. With the

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The first week of September, and I am finishing up my week 5 discoveries: Rollyo /or/ make your own search engine. I created "Amazon rainforests", and only put in the URL for Rainforest alliance. But it worked! I can't quite come up with a good use for this tool at the moment, but I'm sure something is out there to be rolled......~C

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Continuing with the playing around week...today it was to LibraryThing. I'd heard about it, but never explored. LT was 2 years old this week and seems pretty well used and filling up fast. I joined the "librarian" and "sustainability" groups and I don't know what that means yet. The groups seem to have blogs, but I wouldn't have time for that. One great feature is that when you add a book to

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My creation Originally uploaded by C2542

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Week 5: Playing. I started with online image generators. The many listed on The Generation Blog (http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/) were pretty lame. But the ones on fd Toys (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/) to use with Flickr were more interesting. Here I have made a "mosaic" out of my photo. Below is a poster out of Alyssia's photo. Too bad it is such low quality... I understand that

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My creation Originally uploaded by C2542I started week 5: playing. The first things to play with were online image generators. There was a lot of nonsense on the Generator Blog. But the dfToys to use with Flickr were interesting. I made a poster out of Alyssia's photo (above) - I'm sorry the photo is so bad! Supposedly you can print out the poster you create so it might be good to

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I finished my adventures in RSS & Newsreaders - Week 4. From Technorati I found the most popular blogs in the world : Engadget and Boing Boing. I subscribed to Boing Boing : "Boing Boing is a weblog of cultural curiosities and interesting technologies. It's the most popular blog in the world, as ranked by Technorati.com, and won the Lifetime Achievement and Best Group Blog awards at the 2006

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different people, a different time of year, but this is exactly where I was in Amazonas.......

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There are so many of us out here blogging, that it may be virtually impossible to find each other. Searching blogs on Google or any other blog "aggregator" may flush out a few. The best blogs I have found have come from personal recommendations. Yesterday afternoon, I looked at the list of the blogs on the 23things site to see if I could find one that I could add to my blogger list. I ended

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I started the 4th week's explorations : RSS feeds. I already use my Google homepage for some RSS feeds, but I don't really have much experience with them. I had already set up a Blogger RSS account a few months ago when I was supposed to change my SCPedia wiki from a public site. But Blogger is public as well, so that wouldn't have actually helped. I couldn't get the feed on Blogger because

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The topic this week is - technology. In the 2 weeks I've been doing these 23 things, I really have stuck my toes into some new technology and mindsets. First, I did create this blog and customized it. I know that there are many more features available, but I don't know if I'll get to explore them if my main purpose is just to write. I did put a photo from the web on my blog, but that's all

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The 7 habits..... # 2 It has always been natural for me to accept responsibility for my own learning. Perhaps for the majority of what I have learned, the desire has come from internal energy. #3 "Problems are only challenges" is an attitude that is also natural to me. #1 It surprised me that I decided that this was the hardest habit - to begin with the end in mind. I think I usually do

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Turning into the dense foliage, I slowly push aside the eye level branches, leaves, webs, and lianas. So this is the jungle.

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