(Mostly) Work Log

I read for the first time Garrett Hardin's excellent 1968 article, "The Tragedy of the Commons" , after someone brought it up ...

Haven't posted much here lately, partly because I've been messing around with Drupal . See dsl_drupal feed in right navigation pane...

Just posted something on this to the CMS Weblog

Two interesting reports: Schonfeld &  Housewright's  "Faculty Survey 2009: Key Strategic Insights for Libraries, publishers, an...

Karen Coyle has an interesting (and alarming) post on OCLC's punishing treatment of Michigan State University after the MSU Library cho...

I was impressed with Jennifer Bowen's demo at ALA and installed the software on my local machine once I got back. I wrote up some specif...

There's an article by David Stuart in the latest issue of  Research Information entitled: " Research Skills could Transform Librar...

A high-level Harvard task force urges closer cooperation and a unified strategic plan among the university's 73 separate libraries (and ...

I just posted some excerpts from the Study of the North American MARC Records Marketplace  (along with a bit of commentary) to the  CMS blog...

I posted some links about Abram's position paper (and mostly negative feedback) over at the CMS blog

I think this Jim Morin cartoon pretty much hits the nail on the head:

Whitehouse.gov is now Drupal-powered. I commented on this (and Drupal use in libraries) over at the CMS blog .

See article in computerworld.com about breakthrough at NCSU: " Engineers create fingernail-size chip that holds 1TB of data ", and...

A thoughtful and poignant (if also left-slanted) essay from the Berliner Umschau , translated by Watching America : " American De-Indu...

The New York Times Magazine 9/30/09 cover story, “ The Holy Grail of the Unconscious: What the Unearthing of Carl Jung's Red Book is Doi...