A-D

Abilock, Debbie -- interview

About.com: a Home on the Net.

Academic Library Web Sites

1. Cars and Movies and Academic Library Web Pages
2. Creating an Academic Library Web Site

Accounting:

1. Accounting for Public Services
2. ROI: the Economic Benefits of Libraries

Allen, Houston -- Tips and Sites for PC and Internet Troubleshooting

Allies -- Shifting Alliances: former allies turn against each other

AltaVista

1. Preferred Placement
2. New Search Interface announcement

Amazon

1. Beat Out by Amazon
2. Replies to "Beat Out by Amazon"

American Demographics -- a valuable reference source.

American Library Association

1. ALA and Go Ask Alice: a Public Relations Nightmare.
2. How Not To Redesign a Web Site
3. In Praise of: the American Library Association
4. They Ain't Heavy, They're Our Brothers
5. What I Learned at ALA

Archiving -- Who's Going To Archive Zine Content?

Authors of Articles

1. Allen, Houston R. -- Tips and Sites for PC and Internet Troubleshooting
2. Bell, Steven RSS and News Aggregators: What Do You Really Need To Know To Keep Up?; What Worked for Me: 10 Tips for Getting Published, Part I; What Worked for Me: 10 Tips for Getting Published, Part II
3. Bigwood, David -- Reply to "Beat out by Amazon, and Favorite Astronomy and Cataloging Sites
4. Boyno, MaryAnn -- The Challenge for School Librarians
5. Carver, Blake -- Creating an Institutional Repository: a Role for Libraries.
6. Cohen, Steven -- Career Change: from Public Library to Law Library.
7. Colbert, Jack -- Librarea, a Virtual 3-D World
8. Crowhurst, Jonathan -- Review of A Brief History of the Future.
9. Dempsey, Kathy (Miller) -- reply to "Beat out by Amazon"
10. Dobi, Tia -- Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 1
11. Dobi, Tia -- Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 2
12. Dobi, Tia -- Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 3
13. Dobi, Tia -- Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 4
14. Dobi, Tia -- Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 5
15. Dobi, Tia -- Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 6
16. Dobi, Tia -- Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 7
17. Dobi, Tia -- Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 8
18. Dobi, Tia -- Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 9
19. Dobi, Tia -- Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 10
20. Drew, Bill -- Wireless Musings
21. Feld, Steve -- The Making of a ThinkQuest Project
22. Flowers, Sarah -- E-Books and Libraries
23. George, Mary. -- "The Alien Abduction Theory of Management
24. Goodman, Andrew -- Link Popularity Engines
25. Hart, Keith -- Marketing Library Services
26. Hollister, Christopher -- Creating an Academic Library Web Site.
27. Hubbard, John -- On His Library Link of the Day
28. Hubbard, John -- LISWiki: The First 30 Days.
29. Isenberg, David -- favorite defense and arms trade sites
30. Larrabee, Nancy -- Listening to Readers
31. McKay, Robert -- on Illinois' River Bend Library System
32. Neely, Amer -- Guidelines on Web Site Design
33. O'Brien, Ellen -- What We're Doing Right: Why Library School Students Have Chosen Our Profession.
34. Smith, Brian -- Why I'm Against Mandatory Porn Filters.
35. Smith, C. Brian (a different Brian Smith) -- Disclosing the Invisible Web
36. Stauff, Jon -- History Day
37. Taylor, Stephanie -- Creating a Functional Specification
38. Taylor, Stephanie - Building a Meaningful Relationship with Your Vendor
39. West, Jessamyn -- Progressive and Radical Librarians
40. Wiener, Paul -- Library Volunteers
41. Wojcik, Tim -- Comparing Bookstores and Libraries

Bailey-Hainer, Brenda -- interview

Baker, Nicholson -- My response to his New Yorker article of July 24, 2000

Basch, Reva -- interview

Bell, Steven

1. RSS and News Aggregators: What Do You Really Need To Know To Keep Up?
2. What Worked for Me: 10 Tips on Getting Published, Part I
3. What Worked for Me: 10 Tips for Getting Published, Part II

Beta Testing -- Libraries as Beta Labs?

Bibliographic Instruction -- Reference as a Teachable Moment

Bickner, Carrie -- Guru interview

Blogs and Bloggers

1. Creating Your Niche on the Net
2. Family Feud
3. A Human Voice
4. The Web of Influence: How News Spreads among Librarians

Blue-Skying -- the Defect in Realism

Book Lists

1. Needed: a clearing house for librarians' online recommended book lists.
2. More on Book Lists

Book Reviewing: The Art of Book Reviewing

Book Reviews:

1. The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived: How characters of fiction, myth, legends, television and movies have shaped our society, changed our behavior, and set the course of history (including programming suggestions for using this as a community read-together)
2. The Accidental Library Manager, by Rachel Singer Gordon
3. the Accidental Systems Librarian, by Rachel Singer Gordon
4. After, by Steven Brill
5. Alternative Library Literature, 1998-1999
6. The Amazing Internet Challenge, by Amy Trace Wells, Susan Calcari and Travis Koplow.
7. Better Together, by Robert D. Putnam and Lewis Feldstein.
8. A Brief History of the Future, by John Naughton.
9. The Clock of the Long Now, by Stewart Brand
10. Connecting Boys with Books, by Michael Sullivan
11. Damned Lies and Statistics, by Joel Best.
12. Defusing the Angry Patron, by Rhea Joyce Rubin
13. Design Wise, by Alison Head.
14. Designing Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen
15. the Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines, by Randolph Hock
16. The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook, by Randolph Hock.
17. Find It Online, by Alan Schlein.
18. From A to Zine, by Julie Bartel
19. Fundamentals of Children's Services, by Michael Sullivan.
20. The Future of the Past, by Alexander Stille.
21. Gig: Americans Talk about Their Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium
22. Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages, by Alex Wright.
23. Google Hacks, by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest.
24. Great Scouts, by Nora Paul and Margot Williams.
25. Heart of the Community: The Libraries We Love, Karen Christersen and David Levinson, eds.
26. High Tech Heretic, by Clifford Stoll
27. How To Turn a Place Around, from the Project for Public Spaces
28. I Found It on the Internet: Coming of Age Online, by Frances Jacobson Harris
29. I Hear America Reading, edited by Jim Burke
30. The Information Professional's Guide to Career Development Online, by Sarah L. Nesbeitt & Rachel Singer Gordon
31. the Internet Blue Pages -- review now available at ALA Techsource
32. the Invisible Web, by Chris Sherman and Gary Price.
33. Keeping Current, by Steven Cohen
34. Language and the Internet, by David Crystal.
35. Last One Out Turn Out the Lights, Susan E. Cleyle and Louise M. McGillis, eds.
36. Library: an Unquiet History, by Matthew Battles
37. the Library Meeting Survival Manual, by George Soete
38. Library Relocations and Collection Shifts, by Dennis C. Tucker.
39. The Library's Legal Answer Book, by Mary Minow and Tomas Lipinski
40. The Long Tail, by Chris Anderson
41. Managing the Internet Controversy, edited by Mark Smith.
42. Microtrends, by Mark Penn
43. My Freshman Year, by Rebekah Nathan
44. Negotiate This!, by Herb Cohen
45. Net Crimes & Misdemeanors. by J.A. Hitchcock.
46. Net.People, by Thomas Bleier and Eric Steinert.
47. The NextGen Librarians' Survival Guide, by Rachel Singer Gordon.
48. Partnering with Purpose, by Janet L. Crowther and Barry Trott
49. The Pickup Artist, by Terry Bisson.
50. Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction, by Joyce Saricks.
51. The Readers' Advisory Guide to Nonfiction, by Neal Wyatt.
52. Revolting Librarians Redux
53. Secrets of the Wholly Grill, by Lawrence G. Townsend
54. Small Pieces Loosely Joined, by David Weinberger
55. The Social Life of Information, by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.
56. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, by William H. Whyte
57. Struck by Lightning: the Curious World of Probabilities, by Jeffrey Rosenthal
58. Super Crunchers: Why Thinking by Numbers Is the New Way To Be Smart, by Ian Ayres
59. Super Searchers Do Business, by Mary Ellen Bates.
60. Super Searchers Make It on Their Own
61. Teaching the Internet in Libraries, by Rachel Singer Gordon.
62. Thinking Like Your Editor, by Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato
63. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell.
64. Web Design on a Shoestring, by Carrie Bickner
65. Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean.

Books

1. The Books I'm Giving for Christmas
2. Changing Our Thinking One Book at a Time
3. In Defense of Oprah Winfrey -- on her book club and the nature of reading
4. Non-Fiction Books: In Need of Rescue
5. They've All Come To Look for America

Bookstores:

1. Bookstores versus Libraries
2. Browsing, Yes. Finding, No
3. Making Bookstores Your Partners
4. A Tribute to Used Book Stores

Bosses

1. Training Your Bosses
2. Collaborative Management in Libraries

Boyno, MaryAnn -- The Challenge for School Librarians

Budget Cuts -- Dealing with Budget Cuts

Buzz

1. The Tragically Unhip, or How Librarians Can Get Ahead of the Curve for a Change
2. The Uses of Search Voyeurs

Calcari, Susan -- a tribute to her and the Scout Report Project.

Calendars

1. Libraries and Community Calendars: a Natural Fit
2. A Promotion a Day

Calishain, Tara -- interview.

Call for Contributions

Career Change -- from Public Library to Law Library.

Cartoons as Information -- Pay Attention to the Jokes

Carver, Blake -- Creating an Institutional Repository: a Role for Libraries.

Cataloging

1. Beat Out by Amazon.
2. Catalog Your Experts
3. Favorite Cataloging Sites from David Bigwood.
4. FBI's Most Needed: Catalogers
5. Is Less More?

Censorship

1. Censoring the Books Kids Love
2. Go Ask Alice Again
3. If We Must Have Filters...
4. Night Vision

Change

1. Your Best Idea Resources

Christmas greetings

1. 2000
2. 2003
3. 2004
4. 2005

Citizenship

1. Are You Ready for Elections? (2006)
2. Creating Informed Citizens
3. Election-Watching Sites
4. Scratching Each Other's Backs

City Revitalization -- a public library should be at the heart of any renewal project.

Civil Liberties -- A Modest Proposal

Coffman, Steve

1. Anti-Steve: my philosophical problems with his ideas
2. Bookstores versus Libraries

Collaborative Management in Libraries

Colbert, Jack -- Librarea, a Virtual 3-D World

Collaboration with Local Government -- Scratching Each Other's Backs

Collection Development -- Collecting Ephemera

Community Information

1. Creating Informed Citizens
2. The Library's Place in Place-Blogging

Computer Troubleshooting

Contracting Government Services -- Contracting Out

Control: Locus of Control

Cool Quotes Page

Copyright

1. Beached Whales and Publishers
2. Courtesy and Copyright
3. Some Concerns about Copyright
4. Who Is Copyright For?

Corporate Responsiveness to E-Mail

Crawford, Walt -- Interview.

Creativity -- Librarianship as a creative act.

Crowhurst, Jonathan -- Review of A Brief History of the Future

Data--what will survive in a full-text world.

Databases:

1. Catalog Your Experts
2. Constructing Local Databases
3. Don't Just Regret the Error -- Fix It
4. The Fate of Non-Digitized Scholarly Resources
5. Using Your Library Network to Store Databases of Internal Library Information
6. Report on ERIC Users' Strategies
7. Who's Going To Archive Zine Content?

the Davenport Flood: True but Nonetheless Wrong

Degrees of Separation -- How Many Degrees of Separation?

Departmental Libraries

Digitization

1. The Fate of Non-Digitized Scholarly Resources
2. The Lesson of the Johns Hopkins Tragedy

Disaster -- The Essentials of Life

Distance Education -- readers tell their experiences with library education distance programs.

Dobi, Tia

1. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 1
2. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 2
3. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 3
4. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 4
5. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 5
6. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 6
7. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 7
8. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 8
9. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 9
10. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 10

Downtown Revitalization -- a public library should be at the heart of any renewal project.

E - H

E-Books

E-Mail--Making Sure You Respond To It

E-zines -- Who's Going To Archive Zine Content?

Election Information

1. Creating Informed Citizens
2. Election-Watching Sites
3. Are You Ready for Elections? (2006)

Emergencies: Emergency Responders

ERIC: Report on ERIC Users' Strategies

Ethical Issues -- the Problem of Authenticity on the Ever-Changing Web

Expert Knowledge: Catalog Your Experts

Favorite Sites

1. Are You Ready for Elections? (2006)
2. Caffeine and Curmudgeons: Favorite Columnists' Sites
3. Favorite Australian Sites -- from Brian Bingley
4. Favorite Election-Watching Sites
5. Favorite History Sites
6. Favorite International Sites
7. Favorite International Sites, part II
8. Favorite Professional Sites contributed by readers, including sites for astronomy, fpr cataloging, and for the arms trade.
9. Favorite Sites for Dietary Supplement Research and for Patents -- contributed by readers.
10. Favorite Reading Recommendations Sites
11. Favorite Sites of the Highland Internet Interest Group, Part I
12. Favorite Sites of the Highland Internet Interest Group, part II
13. Favorite "When Was It?" Sites
14. Great Journalism Sites, and Why Librarians Should Care
15. Great Sites for Jobhunters
16. Hot Paper Topics Sites
17. Sites for Making Government Work Better

FBI's Most Needed: Catalogers

Feld, Steve -- The Making of a ThinkQuest Project

Feldman, Sue -- interview

Fichter, Darlene -- guru interview

Filters

1. If We Must Have Filters...
2. Night Vision
3. Why I'm Against mandatory Porn Filters, by Brian Smith

Finding Your Own Neat New Stuff

First Amendment -- Some 1st Amendment Concerns Raised in the Presidential Debate

FirstSearch

1. Some quibbles with its design.
2. OCLC responds

Flowers, Sarah -- E-Books and Libraries

Funding

1. A Predictable Funding Disaster
2. ROI: the Economic Benefits of Libraries
3. They Ain't Heavy, They're Our Brothers

The Future of Libraries

1. Beat Out by Amazon.
2. Interview with John Guscott of Library Futures Quarterly
3. Outreach as a Survival Strategy
4. Progressive and Radical Librarians
5. Shifting Alliances

George, Mary. "The Alien Abduction Theory of Management

Goodman, Andrew -- Link Popularity Engines

Google - Are You Googlable?

Government Information and Services

1. Accounting for Public Services
2. Contracting Out
3. Disappearing Data
4. For a Great Read, Head to the...Gov Docs Collection? Yep.
5. How Do Shared Public Resources Compete?
6. Invisible Gifts, Part II
7. Messing with Cash Cows: the Effort To Eliminate PubScience
8. ROI: the Economic Benefits of Libraries
9. Tracking Our Government
10. The Value of the Public

Guru Interviews

1. Debbie Abilock
2. Bailey-Hainer, Brenda
3. Reva Basch
4. Carrie Bickner
5. Tara Calishain
6. Walt Crawford
7. Sue Feldman
8. John Guscott
9. William Hann
10. John Hubbard
11. the "It's All Good" bloggers, part 1 -- George Needham, Alane Wilson, and Alice Sneary
12. the "It's All Good" bloggers, part 2
13. Péter Jacsó
14. Jenny Levine, part I
15. Jenny Levine, Part II
16. Rory Litwin
17. Roddy MacLeod, Part I
18. Roddy MacLeod, part II
19. Patrice McDermott
20. Micki McIntyre
21. Greg Notess
22. Gary Price
23. Barbara Quint
24. Karen G. Schneider
25. Kathy Schrock
26. Chris Sherman
27. Brian Smith, the "laughing librarian"
28. Genie Tyburski
29. Jessamyn West

Guscott, John -- guru interview

Gwinnett County Public Library - Hostile Takeover

Hann, William -- interview

Harris County Public Library -- The Essentials of Life

Hart, Keith -- Marketing Library Services

Health Information on the Net: a hospital library trains seniors in finding health info.

History Day

History Sites -- my very favorite sites

A Hospital Library Outreach Program

Houston Public Library -- The Essentials of Life

HTML

1. HTML for the Technologically Challenged
2. Guidelines for Web Site Design

Hubbard, John

1. Library Link of the Day
2. LISWiki: The First 30 Days

Hurricane Katrina -- The Essentials of Life

I - N

the Ideal Library

1. My Ideal Library for Young Adults
2. Readers Respond to the Ideal Library Question

Ignorance Management

Images

1. The Importance of Visualization
2. Say It with Pictures: a Day in the Life of America's Libraries

In Praise of...

1. the American Library Association
2. Information Today
3. the Library of Congress
4. the Mellon Foundation
5. OCLC
6. People Who Keep Information Free
7. River Bend Library System
8. Susan Calcari and the Scout Report Project.
9. A Tribute to Used Book Stores
10. Women on the Internet

Information

1. 1st Rule of Information: Go Where It Is
2. 1st Rule, Part II
3. 2nd Rule (1st Rule Corollary): Who Cares?
4. 3rd Rule: the Answer You Get depends on the Question You Ask
5. 4th Rule: Research is a Multi-Stage Process
6. 5th Rule: Ask Your Librarian
7. 6th Rule:: Information Is Meaningless Until Approached by Human Intelligence.
8. 7th Rule: Information Can Be True but Nonetheless Wrong
9. 8th Rule: Pay Attention to the Jokes
10. The Assault on the Public's Right To Know
11. The Devil Is in the Details - and the Details Are in the Sixth Paragraph
12. Disappearing Data
13. The Essentials of Life
14. Holes in the Information Universe
15. Information Literacy: Food for Thought
16. Invisible Gifts, part I
17. Invisible Gifts, Part II
18. The Library's Place in Place-Blogging
19. The Long Tail
20. Messing with Cash Cows
21. The Power of Visualized Information
22. the Problem of Authenticity on the Ever-Changing Web
23. The Social Functions of Libraries -- information is only part of what we do
24. Visualizing Information
25. What IS Information?
26. What Is NOT on the Net
27. Who You Know Still Counts

Information-Seeking Behavior

1. Information Literacy: Food for Thought
2. Who You Know Still Counts

Institutional Memory

Institutional Repositories -- Blake Carver: Creating an Institutional Repository: a Role for Libraries.

Interesting Ideas -- Worth Imitating

Internet

1. How Users Shape the Net
2. On NOT Teaching Internet Literacy
3. the Problem of Authenticity on the Ever-Changing Web
4. Shifting Alliances
5. The Importance of Visualization
6. Web Contributions and Tenure Decisions
7. What Is NOT on the Net
8. Who's Going To Archive Zine Content?

Internet and Technology in Libraries

1. ALA and Go Ask Alice: a Cautionary Tale
2. Browsing the Internet's Shelves
3. Building a Quick and Dirty Expert Page
4. Cars and Movies and Academic Library Web Pages
5. Creating an Academic Library Web Site
6. Disappearing Data
7. Disclosing the Invisible Web
8. The Fate of Non-Digitized Scholarly Resources
9. Fearing the Internet -- why that makes sense.
10. A Hospital Library Program: Training Seniors To Use the Net for Health Information
11. Its use in reference -- Getting from Zero To Something
12. Its usefulness as a delivery system
13. Librarea: a 3-D Library in Cyberspace
14. Locus of Control
15. Planning for Side-Effects: the Case for Semi-Luddite Management
16. the Problem of Authenticity on the Ever-Changing Web
17. Raising the Bar: the Internet Raises Expectations
18. the Techno-economic Imperative
19. The Tragically Unhip
20. a True Tale of the Invisible Web
21. Unusually Interesting Library Web Sites
22. Using Your Web Page Statistics
23. What Should Go on Your Library's Web Page?
24. Why I'm Against mandatory Porn Filters, by Brian Smith

Intranets in Libraries

1. Using Your Library Network to Store Databases of Internal Library Information

Invisible Web

1. Disclosing the Invisible Web
2. a True Tale of the Invisible Web

Jacsó, Péter -- an interview

Johns Hopkins -- The Lesson of the Johns Hopkins Tragedy

Junk Mail--my, the interesting mailing lists libraries are on!

Keeping Up with the Literature: What Do We Read? An ongoing series to try to identify key resources.

1. What Do We Read? -- my answer.
2. Tara Calishain's Answer
3. Jenny Levine's Answer
4. Reva Basch's Answer
5. Sue Feldman's Answer
6. Jessamyn West's Answer
7. Debbie Abilock's Answer
8. Ignorance Management
9. My Own Private Stash
10. Stop the World, I Want To Catch Up
11. Stop the World, I Want To Catch Up: Readers Respond
12. RSS and News Aggregators: What Do You Rally Need To Know To Keep Up?, by Steven Bell
13. The Web of Influence: How News Spreads among Librarians

The Lakewood Public Library Web Site

Larrabee, Nancy -- Listening to Readers

Levine, Jenny -- interview, part I

Levine, Jenny -- interview, part II

Librarians: Careers

1. Some Out-of-the-Ordinary Librarian Jobs
2. My Life as a Librarian without Walls

Librarians' Finest Moments

1. Damn, We're Good! Librarians' Finest Moments, Part I
2. Damn, We're Good! Librarians' Finest Moments, Part II

Librarians Helping Librarians -- Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries

Librarianship: Professional Education

1. Distance Education-- readers' experiences with distance programs.
2. Ignorance Management
3. Library and Librarian: Perfectly Good Words
4. Library Schools Should Teach Us Marketing
5. Outside the Comfort Zone
6. The Social Function of Libraries
7. What Should Library Schools Teach Us?

Librarianship: Professional Issues

1. Beat Out by Amazon.
2. Being an Anomaly: Male Librarians
3. Blue-Skying -- the Defect in Realism
4. Librarianship and Creativity
5. The Fate of Non-Digitized Scholarly Resources
6. How Do Shared Public Resources Compete?
7. Ignorance Management
8. (Left) Foot in Mouth
9. Library and Librarian: Perfectly Good Words
10. On Being a Librarian
11. On Collaborative Management in Libraries
12. On Making the Transition from Librarian to Library User
13. Outreach as a Survival Strategy
14. Outside the Comfort Zone
15. Page Turner
16. Progressive and Radical Librarians
17. The Right Hand Knoweth Not..." (on recruiting and keeping new librarians)
18. Shifting Alliances
19. The Social Function of Libraries
20. The Thrust for Departmental Libraries
21. User-Intelligible
22. What Worked for Me: 10 Tips on Getting Published, Part I, by Steven Bell
23. What Worked for Me: 10 Tips for Getting Published, Part II, by Steven Bell

Library Boards - Hostile Takeover [the Gwinnett County Public Library]

the Library of Congress

Library Programs -- Party People

Library Schools

1. Library and Librarian: Perfectly Good Words
2. Library Schools Should Teach Us Marketing
3. The Social Function of Libraries
4. What Should Library Schools Teach Us?
5. Why Library School Students Have Chosen Our Profession.

Library Signage - User-Intelligible

Library Software and System Design - Creating a Functional Specification, by Stephanie Taylor

Library Systems: River Bend Library System:, the Best Little Library System in the World.

Library Volunteers

1. In Praise of Library Volunteers, and an interview with Molly Williams
2. Volunteers in Libraries

Library Web Pages:

1. Academic Library Web Pages
2. ALA and Go Ask Alice: a Cautionary Tale
3. Browsing the Internet's Shelves
4. Building a Quick and Dirty Expert Page
5. Cars and Movies and Academic Library Web Pages
6. Creating an Academic Library Web Site
7. Design Wise, a review of the book on site design by Alison Head
8. Designing Web Usability; review of Jakob Nielsen's book.
9. Guidelines for Web Site Design
10. A Human Voice
11. It's Not Supposed To Be a Secret [the Springfield-Greene County Library District web page]
12. Unusually Interesting Library Web Sites
13. Unusually Interesting Library Web Sites: Lakewood Public Library
14. Unusually Interesting Library Web Sites: Morton Grove Public Library's Webrary
15. Unusually Interesting Library Web Sites: Multnomah County Library
16. Unusually Interesting Library Web Sites: Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County
17. What Should Go On Your Library Web Page?
18. What's Not on Your Web Site?

Link Popularity Engines

Listservs -- The Web of Influence: How News Spreads among Librarians

LISWiki -- The First 30 Days

Litwin, Rory -- guru interview

MacLeod, Roddy

1. Interview, part I
2. Interview, part II

Magazines

1. Hard Copy
2. Magazines: a Tribute and Maybe an Elegy

Male Librarians: Being an Anomaly: Male Librarians

Management

1. the Alien Abduction Theory of Management, by Mary George.
2. Applying "Shopping Anthropology" to Libraries
3. Beat Out by Amazon.
4. Blue-Skying -- the Defect in Realism
5. Creating an US: Including All Library Staff in Decision-making
6. Collaborative Management in Libraries.
7. Dealing with Budget Cuts
8. Defusing the Angry Patron, by Rhea Joyce Rubin
9. Ignorance Management
10. In Need of a Better Business Model
11. Page Turner
12. Planning for Unintended Side-Effects: the Case for Semi-Luddite Management
13. A Predictable Funding Disaster
14. Preserving Institutional Memory
15. The Right Hand Knoweth Not..." -- (recruiting and keeping new librarians)
16. Vital to Values

Marketing

1. Are You Googlable?
2. Cultivating Reporters
3. For Your Consideration: a Marketing Strategy
4. A Human Capital
5. Ideas Talking To Each Other
6. Ignorance Management
7. In Need of a Better Business Model
8. Knowledge Pushers
9. A Little Immodesty, Please
10. Marketing Library Services -- by Keith Hart
11. Our Unique Selling Proposition
12. Party People
13. A Predictable Funding Disaster
14. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 1 -- a continuing series by Tia Dobi
15. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 2 -- a continuing series by Tia Dobi
16. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 3 -- a continuing series by Tia Dobi
17. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 4 -- a continuing series by Tia Dobi
18. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 5 -- a continuing series by Tia Dobi
19. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 6 -- a continuing series by Tia Dobi
20. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 7 -- a continuing series by Tia Dobi
21. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 8
22. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 9
23. Press, Profit, and Provocation: Library Promotion for the Over-Educated, Part 10
24. A Promotion a Day
25. Pushing Librarians into Public Awareness
26. Remnants: Some Random Ideas
27. ROI: the Economic Benefits of Libraries
28. Telling People What Libraries Do
29. Unclear on the Concept
30. Vital to Values

Patrice McDermott -- an interview.

McKay, Robert -- on Illinois' River Bend Library System

Meetings--good ones and awful ones.

the Mellon Foundation -- In Praise of its contributions to libraries

Men in Librarianship: Being an Anomaly: Male Librarians

Morton Grove Public Library's Webrary: an Unusually Interesting Library Web Site

Multnomah County Library: an Unusually Interesting Library Web Site

Museums and other Partnership Opportunities -- Natural Partners

Neely, Amer -- Basic Guidelines to Site Design

New Sites: How To Find Your Own Neat New Stuff

New York Public Library: Coping with Disaster

New York Times -- Altering the Historical Record for Fun and profit.

Non-fiction -- In Need of Rescue

Non-professional Staff -- Including All Library Staff in Decision-Making

Notess, Greg -- interview

O - Z

O'Brien, Ellen -- What We're Doing Right: Why Library School Students Have Chosen Our Profession.

OCLC

1. In Praise of OCLC
2. Some quibbles with the design of FirstSearch
3. OCLC responds

OPLIN (Ohio Public Library Information Network)

Outreach

1. Manly Comfort
2. Outreach as a Survival Strategy
3. an Outreach Program for Seniors

Paraprofessional Staff -- Including All Library Staff in Decision-Making

Partnerships -- Natural Partners

Permanence -- Hard Copy

Phone SystemsThe Real Public Face of Our Libraries

Place-Blogging -- The Library's Place in Place-Blogging

Politicization -- (Left) Foot in Mouth

Price, Gary -- interview

Privacy Statement -- my policy about information about my readers.

Professional Reading: What Do We Read? An ongoing series to try to identify key resources for keeping current.

1. What Do We Read? -- my answer.
2. Tara Calishain's Answer
3. Jenny Levine's Answer
4. Reva Basch's Answer
5. Sue Feldman's Answer
6. Jessamyn West's Answer
7. Debbie Abilock's Answer
8. Stop the World, I Want To Catch Up
9. Stop the World, I Want To Catch Up: Readers Respond

Progressive and Radical Librarians

Public Information

1. The Assault on the Public Right To Know
2. Messing with Cash Cows: the Effort To Eliminate PubScience

Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County: an Unusually Interesting Web Site

Public Relations

1. Applying "Shopping Anthropology" to Libraries
2. ALA and Go Ask Alice
3. Cultivating Reporters
4. Knowledge Pushers
5. Libraries and Community Calendars: a Natural Fit
6. Review: Defusing the Angry Patron, by Rhea Joyce Rubin
7. Object Lesson in System Failures
8. Our Phone Systems: the Real Public Face of Our Libraries
9. Pushing Librarians into Public Awareness
10. Talking Points about Your Library
11. the "reading wizard" at the San Francisco Public Library

Public Spaces:

1. Reviews of How To Turn a Place Around and The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
2. Show Off Your Library As a Place

Publishers:

1. Altering the Historical Record for Fun and Profit
2. Beached Whales and Publishers
3. Disastrous Consequences of the Thor Decision
4. In Praise of: Information Today
5. Messing with Cash Cows
6. Offenses of Serials Publishers

Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County - My Busman's Holiday

Publishing on the Web -- Creating Your Niche on the Net

Purpose of Ex Libris

Push Technologies -- Pushing Librarians into Public Awareness

Quint, Barbara -- interview

Random Ideas -- Remnants

Readers' Services -- Listening To Readers

Reading -- In Defense of Oprah Winfrey -- on her book club and the nature of reading.

Recruiting and Retaining New Librarians

1. Page Turner
2. The Right Hand Knoweth Not..."

Reference:

1. American Demographics -- a splendid reference source
2. Building a Quick and Dirty Expert Page
3. Disclosing the Invisible Web
4. From Zero to Something
5. Reference as a Teachable Moment
6. Tales Told by Reference Books
7. Thinking Beyond our Boxes -- Using ALL Library Resources for Reference
8. Using Periodicals for Reference
9. XRefer, Plain or with All the Toppings

Remarkable Libraries - My Busman's Holiday: the Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County

RSS -- RSS and News Aggregators: What Do You Rally Need To Know To Keep Up?, by Steven Bell

School Librarians

Schneider, Karen G. -- an interview.

Schrock, Kathy -- interview.

Scout Report -- a tribute to Susan Calcari and the project she guided.

Searching and Search Engines:

1. AltaVista's Preferred Placement
2. Browsing the Internet's Shelves
3. ERIC Users' Strategies
4. Finding Neat New Stuff
5. FirstSearch -- some quibbles with its design.
6. Go Where It Is
7. Go Where It Is, Part II
8. Link Popularity Engines
9. Use Wedge Words
10. Uses of Search Voyeurs
11. What is the best search engine?
12. Yahoo -- Losing Its Exclamation Point

Selection

1. Selection of Dubious Materials
2. The Tragically Unhip, or, How Librarians Can Get Ahead of the Curve for a Change.

Serials

1. The Fate of Non-Digitized Scholarly Resources
2. the Offenses of Serials Publishers.

Sherman, Chris -- interview

Smith, Brian -- an interview with the "Laughing Librarian.

Smith, C. Brian -- Disclosing the Invisible Web

Software:

1. Creating a Functional Specification, by Stephanie Taylor
2. Third Voice and Gooey: a Chance to Talk Back to Web Sites

Speakers Bureaus -- Knowledge Pushers

Springfield-Greene County Library District

Statistics -- using your web statistics.

Stauff, Jon -- History Day

Staying Current: What Do We Read? An ongoing series to try to identify key resources.

1. What Do We Read? -- my answer.
2. Tara Calishain's Answer
3. Jenny Levine's Answer
4. Reva Basch's Answer
5. Sue Feldman's Answer
6. Jessamyn West's Answer
7. Debbie Abilock's Answer

Storytelling -- Tell Me a Story

Taylor, Stephanie:

1. Creating a Functional Specification
2. Building a Meaningful Relationship with Your Vendors

the Techno-economic Imperative

Telephones -- Our Phone Systems: The Real Public Face of Our Libraries

Tenure -- Web Contributions and Tenure Decisions

Terrorist attack

1. The Value of the Public
2. New York Public Library: Coping with Disaster

ThinkQuest

the Thor Decision -- its disastrous consequences.

Training -- Training Your Bosses

True but Nonetheless Wrong: the Davenport Flood and the Nature of Truth

Tyburski, Genie -- Interview

Urban Renewal -- a public library should be at the heart of any project to revitalize downtown.

Users

1. Is there such a thing as a "full moon patron?"
2. On Making the Transition from Librarian to Library User
3. Pay attention to them and design your services accordingly.

The Value of the Public

Vendors

1. Creating a Functional Specification
2. Building a Meaningful Relationship with Your Vendors

Volunteers in Libraries

1. In Praise of Library Volunteers, and an interview with Molly Williams
2. Volunteers in Libraries

Washington State Library Closing --

Web Publishing -- Creating Your Niche on the Net

Web Site Design

1. Basic Guidelines on Web Site Design, by Amer Neely
2. Design Wise, a review of the book on site design by Alison Head
3. Designing Web Usability; review of Jakob Nielsen's book.

Web Sites -- On Analyzing Web Sites

Weeding

1. My Response to Nicholson Baker on libraries disposing of historic newspapers..
2. Selecting and Retaining Dubious Materials
3. Weeds? Or History's Uprooted Flowers?

West, Jessamyn

1. Guru Interview
2. Progressive and Radical Librarians

Wiener, Paul -- Library Volunteers

Wi-Fi in Libraries -- Bill Drew, "Wireless Musings"

Williams, Molly -- an Interview

Winfrey, Oprah -- in defense of her decision to reduce her book club offerings.

Wish Lists -- Wishful Thinking

Wojcik, Tim -- Comparing Bookstores and Libraries

World Trade Center attack

1. The Value of the Public
2. New York Public Library: Coping with Disaster

Writing for the Professional Literature

1. What Worked for Me: 10 Tips on Getting Published, Part I
2. What Worked for Me: 10 Tips for Getting Published, Part II

XRefer, Plain or with All the Toppings

Yahoo -- Losing Its Exclamation Point

Young Adults -- Go Ask Alice Again

Zines -- Who's Going To Archive Zine Content?