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What happens next with Google Book Search?

By rachel ⋅ March 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Confused about what happens now with the GBS settlement? There’s a reason for that.

stupid (awesome) internet

By rachel ⋅ October 27, 2009 ⋅ One comment

I was going to write a whole post about this but it never happened so, here, I want to direct your attention to this lovely essay by Karen Joy Fowler at the Powell’s blog because she describes beautifully the feeling i was trying to explain here. Stupid (awesome) internet.

adventures with Aardvark

By rachel ⋅ October 27, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

i signed up with the q/a service Aardvark a few months ago out of curiosity and some professional sense of “i should know about this”. my experiences with it have ranged from unremarkable to amusing to somewhat upsetting. I know a lot of librarians out there “slam the boards” or otherwise participate in non-library question [...]

cupcakes and wcl

By rachel ⋅ September 11, 2009 ⋅ 8 comments

the history faculty are coming over later and i have to try to convince them that worldcat local isn’t the end of the world. so i brought cupcakes because i can’t think of any other arguments.

touchscreens

By rachel ⋅ May 14, 2009 ⋅ One comment

On a recent trip to DC, I watched with fascination as the high schoolers sitting next to me on my JetBlue flight attempted to control the individual TVs in the seat backs in front of them. Both boys reached up and started touching the screen - tapping, dragging, trying increasingly elaborate gestures on the screen [...]

OSU Libraries open access mandate

By rachel ⋅ March 18, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Congratulations, Oregon State University librarians on your open access mandate!

inspiration and the right tools for the job

By rachel ⋅ March 17, 2009 ⋅ 7 comments

who doesn’t love getting things in the mail? i went for a run on saturday with the dog and came home to drop her off after a couple of miles before going back out. while i was out a mysterious little package arrived in the mail and in that package was a slim notebook labeled [...]

juke box hero

By rachel ⋅ March 13, 2009 ⋅ One comment

It seems to me that this is, ultimately, how the corporate content owners will lose the IP wars. Srsly? you do not want to mess with the cute baby videos, people will freaking hate you.

live from #apollo: act 1

By rachel ⋅ January 21, 2009 ⋅ One comment

On Saturday, i participated in Portland Center Stage’s experiment with allowing a limited number of people to blog/post to twitter during a performance of the new play Apollo. i’m still reflecting on the experience but want to write about some aspects of it while it’s fresh in my mind.
Since the play is in 3 acts, [...]

live from #apollo: act 2

By rachel ⋅ January 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Act 2: During
PCS had set the balcony aside for the twitterers and bloggers. i’d been really convinced that all the typing and computer screens around me would be really distracting but i really didn’t notice them. perhaps it’s because in my house there’s almost always a laptop open, almost always some keys being typed, but [...]

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