Off the Mark

Back in December, a few days before the deadline passed for comments on the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, I wrote a post called just that.
In it I expressed much frustration; with both the big picture issues facing bibliographic control and those of my daily frustration in trying to [...]

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Note: Talking with one of my wise friends, I was cautioned that maybe some of the complaints from various Carnival hosts about the lack of participation were not “helping the cause,” if you will. Seeing the wisdom in that stance, I took a closer look at what I had already written here. I [...]

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Wow! It’s been a month since the last Carnival and I am afraid it shows. People seem to have forgotten about this struggling little venture. It also looks like we need hosts for the future. We have one more scheduled after this one, pulling into LIS - Michael Habib in two weeks, but [...]

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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 [...]

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I see that the Carnival of the Infosciences has a new administrator. Chadwick Seagraves at InfoSciPhi has taken over administration duties from Greg Schwartz at Open Stacks.
I’d like to personally thank Greg for all he has done for the Carnival! Also, thanks to Chadwick for taking it over. I’m hopeful that the [...]

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