The 62nd Carnival of the Infosciences is coming to town on Monday, January 8th. This means posts from tomorrow, 25 Dec 06 through (early) 7 Jan 07 will be eligible. So, get to writing yourself and please feel free to send suggestions.
I am currently “reading” approximately 130 library-related blogs. There are 100s more in many area of librarianship that I am not reading. Please help feel bridge that gap. All areas of librarianship are important.
As a point of departure and to get you all thinking, how about writing about what you would really want for the world of libraries and information in 2007 if you could just wiggle your nose and make it happen.
Anything from software that just works; e.g., a citation manager that can “read” all the pdfs on my hard drives and extract all relevant bibliographic metadata (an impossibility, I realize for older pdfs; maybe doable for newer ones) to an open, supported standard(s) for ILS modularization. What would make your world or the world of your users better? Small or large ideas welcomed.
I have a few I’ve recognized recently (e.g., citation managers) that I hope to stumble across again as I have been considering this myself as a post. Myself, I think I’ll be focusing on smaller, eminently doable things. But feel free to consider widely.
Who knows, maybe our collective lists will motivate someone to do something useful.
Anyway, not to constrain you … submit what you like of your own or others for the 62nd Carnival of the Infosciences coming here 8 January 2007.
Submissions can be made at my contact form (preferred) or emailed to me at mark (dot) lindner (at) insightbb (dot) com.
I hope everyone enjoys whatever holidays they may be celebrating and that as dysfunctional as the family you have surrounded yourself with may or not be that you take the time and effort to appreciate them, and to ensure they know it. Most of us may be born into a family, but everyone of us is at liberty to create our own. The “family” you create is probably the most important thing any of us will ever do in life.
welcome to
something like elation when you first open your eyes
just cuz it means
that you musta finally got to sleep last night
welcome to
the precipice between groundlessness and flightAni DiFranco, “welcome to:”, evolve
May we all learn to fly in the next year!