Lower East Side Librarian

Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 29

I feel a lot of pressure right now since my last blog post on this topic got widely read due to its having been posted in American Librarians Direct. This week, IMAGINARY PLACES and a candidate for the memory hole.

Last night I couldn't connect to the internet from home. First I went through a lengthy telephone system diagnostic with Time Warner, my service provider. Ultimately they determined that the problem was with my ISP, Earthlink. I tried to get help from them over the phone, but after an hour on hold I got disconnected. Following is a transcript of my online chat with Earthlink. Up until the very end I was convinced I was chatting with a bot.

I'm getting awfully tabby lately, so here are a bunch of links, so I can close tabs and not feel so bad about it.

• Betty Charm♥cils
• The future of federated searching
• Greens, after the nomination of the McKinney-Clemente...
• Is it Protected by Copyright?
• Library questions and answers
• Life on the command line
• mon.thly.info
• Not guilty!
• Our government wants to define some forms of birth control as abortion

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Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists Week 26, Week 27, and Week 28: FILMS vs. MOTION PICTURES, SUBD GEOG vs. NOT, DANDIES and DANDYISM, and the dissing of balloon sculptors...brought to you by T (THE LETTER).

At first accidentally and then with deliberation I ended up spending the first half of July reading only librarian literature--that is books and zines by and/or about librarians.

Look ma, I'm on tv. As I wrote to Michael Spelman, who interviewed and taped me for the ALA Emerging Leaders video Leadership Lessons, "well, i didn't hate it, which says a lot.
"that is no reflection of you or your filmmaking or interviewing skills, of course, just my being appalled by how i look, sound, and talk."

Yesterday I attended a Free and Open Source Software for Librarians program by Scott Dexter and Samir Chopra, based on their book Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software. Before you read my report back, you should know that the content is familiar territory to me. My spouse, Eric Goldhagen, gives a similar talk in his half of our "Radical Reference: Community Librarianship and Free/Open Source Technology" (and other talks) road show.

Chuck0 Facebooked me the link to this LOLcats/God mash-up, "If God Were a Cat."