http://www.indylibrarian.net Librarians of the future! Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:27:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A cute little series of youtube parodies of PC v. Mac ads. First video (in case the Youtube embed fails) Second video Third video Fourth video http://www.indylibrarian.net/archives/jacob/2007/04/12/20/it-professional-v-librarian/ Apparentlly a flikr pool was setup for some of the images with the flickr tags librarian, librarians, librariantradingcards & tradingcard. Flickr Librarian Trading Cards Pool It looks like the flickr pool was setup, according to this post, after being inspired by this blog, Librarian Trading Cards, some of which are included in ... http://www.indylibrarian.net/archives/jacob/2005/12/21/14/librarian-trading-cards/ Reading this news release from the EFF about the EFF's amicus brief they submitted in support of Google Image Search in Perfect10 v. Google they say the following. "Google Image Search helps millions of people locate and learn about information on the web every day," said Jason Schultz, EFF staff attorney. ... http://www.indylibrarian.net/archives/jacob/2005/10/18/06/google-print-library-project-card-catalog/ MLIS students who are interested in academic librarianship or working in a scholarly environment might be interested in the recent call for student papers and peer reviewers by Post-Tracks. I've included the calls in the extended entry below. Check out what previously published papers by Post-Tracks look like. I had a very ... http://www.indylibrarian.net/archives/jacob/2005/10/06/18/post-tracks-calls-for-student-papers-and-peer-reviewers/ "Out from the Stacks: Librarians Lead Legal Battles Over the Patriot Act, Copyright, Tech Issues," via Librarian.net http://www.indylibrarian.net/archives/kim/2005/08/16/08/aba-article-on-the-ala/ I've been settling down here in Chicago--and finally yesterday I got my Chicago Public Library card at the downtown Harold Washington Library Center. The downtown Chicago library is great, and I'm looking forward to the newly built Logan Square branch to open as it is only three blocks away from ... http://www.indylibrarian.net/archives/kim/2005/07/10/19/revolting-and-radical-librarians/ Washington Library Tested by Patriot Act As part of NPR's coverage of the Patriot Act (currently up for renewal in Congress), Larry Abramson reports on the ethical tensions placed on librarians to reveal patron's circulation records. And speaking of patron privacy, the Naperville public library has made a questionable deal with U.S. ... http://www.indylibrarian.net/archives/kim/2005/06/06/11/libraries-in-the-news/ The following column is also published on Webjunction.org as part of the inaugural issue of Post-Tracks which I had the pleasure of establishing with my colleague Vanessa Chavez as our Capstone project for the completion of our MSIS from the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. ... http://www.indylibrarian.net/archives/jacob/2005/05/30/00/open-source-information-commons-and-librarianship/ Is this thing on? As you might have noticed there has a been a lack of activity on this site, however there should be some changes happening soon such as: Site redesign Addition of discussion board posting of articles (hopefully) :) So keep an eye out. http://www.indylibrarian.net/archives/jacob/2005/05/29/09/tap-tap/ Welcome to indylibrarian.net! indylibrarian.net is a collaborative site established by current students and as of May 2005, alumni of the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. At indylibrarian.net we hope to continue to have an ongoing discussion of the various aspects of the fields of library and information ... http://www.indylibrarian.net/archives/administrator/2005/02/28/16/hello-world/