There’s a good overview of LibraryThing in today’s free Wall Street Journal. LibraryThing is a social software site for books. I remember looking at it about a year ago and being like, yeah whateva. I don’t have much time to read never mind catalog, review, and tag my books. I’m not sure I care that [...]

Yes, ALA’s 2006 national conference is only just about to end and new officers are only about to begin, but it’s never too soon for ACRL to start announcing who is running for top offices next year. I learned today at the conference that the two candidates for ACRL President Elect/President for 2007 are two [...]

On Sunday morning I attended a meeting of the Baltimore National Conference Executive Committee. Planning for the 2007 conference is really moving along and shaping up nicely. ACRL members will be hearing much more about the great programming that the Conference will offer. I thought you might be interested to know more about the numbers [...]

ACRL’s New Publications Advisory Board and the College Library Section co-sponsored the “Publish, Don’t Perish: Helpful Hints for Authors” program at the ALA Annual Conference. I attended along with several College Library Section colleagues as we were graciously invited to briefly describe the Your Research Coach program. I spoke for just a few minutes on [...]

Lesley Williams has a thoughtful piece in Library Journal about the need to make our electronic resources more visible. Though she’s coming from a public library perspective, we all run into situations where students (and faculty!) only learn about a database by accident or assume their choices are between what they can find on Google [...]