Have I mentioned yet how much I wish This Week in the House had a RSS feed so I didn’t have to remember to search it every week? Call to lazy web: do scraplers still exist and is there an easy one I can use to generate a feed?
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Something I haven’t mentioned for quite a while is skating. As anyone who works full-time knows, it can be very difficult to find time to exercise. Many librarians (including myself) work rostered weekends and evenings, which can make enrolling in a class or joining a sports team difficult. And if the only times […]
When I was in library school, we learnt a lot about the differences between pre- and post-coordinate indexing, and how they can affect search results. It is something I am reminded of whenever I search a database and spend a long time trying to work out which words best describe a topic, or attempt to […]
Mentions of libraries in strange places
Published by March 14th, 2006 in General, Associations and Public libraries. 0 CommentsLast night’s episode of Enough Rope (an hour-long interview show - dare I say it, Australia’s version of Parkinson) featured Bono who apart from talking about U2, Bob Geldof and Product Red, told a story about the burning of libraries in Sarajavo -
“[…] We took our shoes off, we went in to meet this war-time […]
A conference I could love
Published by March 9th, 2006 in Library technology and Conferences. 2 CommentsNow this sounds like the kind of conference I would dream of attending -
Next Generation Libraries – what does that mean for us? Mash-ups, tag clouds, ontologies, BitTorrent, Flickr, YouTube, e-learning, Gen Y…He Huarahi Whakamua we’ll take up the challenge to embrace all that Next Generation Libraries means for us!
LIANZA 2006, to be held […]
Reading roundup
Published by March 7th, 2006 in General, Associations, Conferences, Travel, Research/Writing, Open Source and Australia. 4 CommentsA roundup of things I’ve been reading, working on, and paying attention to lately:
The first couple of months this year have been very busy with committee meeting after meeting for various groups and projects that I am a member of. We are (just!) under nine months away from NLS2006, and we’re coming up to the […]
The founders of Lonely Planet have become about the amount of flying people do, and will be putting warnings in their updated travel guides against excessive flying. To me, this is an interesting development from a company that produces guidebooks that often advocates flying or driving to remote places. I have often found Lonely […]
