Adventures of ACTION ITEM!

The Adventures of ACTION ITEM!, a superhero who's mastered the art and jargon of business meetings, but can't actually save anyone.

"Library Porn" in Chronicle of Higher Education

Professor of English Thomas H. Benton confesses his addiction to Library Porn (e.g., pictures of finely-crafted bookshelves) in the Feb. 16 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Picked up by LISNews

NETSL 2007: "Re-Imagining Technical Services"

NETSL (New England Technical Services Librarians) 2007 Spring Conference Program featuring Diane Dates Casey and Daniel Joudrey to take place Friday April 13, 2007, in Worcester Mass.

Court Decisions Cite Wikipedia

At the SCOPA forum last week (featuring motivational speaker Jessica McWade), Blair Kauffman mentioned growing use of Wikipedia in court decisions (including those by Richard Posner on US Court of Appeals). I just bumped into a New York Times article and LIS News posting that address this. According to the Times piece, "More than 100 judicial rulings have relied on Wikipedia, beginning in 2004, including 13 from circuit courts of appeal, one step below the Supreme Court. (The Supreme Court thus far has never cited Wikipedia.)"

Jon's visit

NYC

Check room availability at Hotel Newton. Oops, no vacancies. Days Inn? Check AJAXed NYC subway map (very slow) and best stops for Natural History Musuem (1 or 9 to W. 79th) and Birdland (1, 2, or 3 to Times Sq., then S, then 2 blcks N to 44th) and hotel (1, 2, or 3 to 96th). Sunday night at Birdland is Chico O'Farrill Big Band, led by Arturo O'Farrill. See review in New York Sun.

Loreley

Home http://www.recipesfromhome.com/

Dumont http://dumontrestaurant.com/

Dresslers http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/dressler/index.html

Prune http://www.menupages.com/restaurantdetails.asp?neighborhoodid=0&restaurantid=2526

Bonita (a bit cheaper, but good) http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/restaurants/archives/2005/03/_bonita.html

Back in New Haven ...

Check out Info New Haven.

Now that Kahn Building is restored and reopened, need to visit the Yale Art Gallery (T-Sa, 10-5). Also, Criterion Theater, Center for British Art (current exhibit: Howard Hodgkin), Peabody Museum, worth visiting.

Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station worth visiting? No special events on top. Some reports published on their web site. Receive soil samples for pH analysis. Not sure what else they do. Open 8:30-4:30 M-F, but closed Mon., Feb. 12th, for Lincoln's BD.

NSDL Registry Project

Dianne Hillman, et al., have an interesting conference paper, A Metadata Registry from Vocabularies UP: The NSDL Registry Project, available at arxiv.org.

Open Standards Symposium at Yale

Yale Information Society Project's Open Standards International Symposium will take place Feb. 3, 2007 at the Yale Law School. Check the conference wiki for more details.