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Comment on ALIA Awards 2008 by Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:40:03 +0000

The nominations have been extended to 15th August, so there’s still time.

Comment on Asus eee pc - Thali thoughts by Alethea

Alethea — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:19:58 +0000

I was tempted by the eeePC just before I went overseas earlier this year. Since I also needed a phone, I chose a Palm Treo (Palm OS) with a 4G SD card and a folding keyboard instead. Since I don’t surf the web from my phone (2inch screen), I found that carrying a bunch of ebooks and journalling while on the go certainly worked.
There is also the upside that a phone is even lighter than this neat gadget and in a tight corner, there is always the ability to either use the thumb-keyboard, “Graffiti” handwriting or record a memo.

I find myself still tempted, I just can’t justify it in time or investment terms at the moment. Perhaps next year?

Comment on Things found in books by TimK

TimK — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:38:25 +0000

I love finding random things in books. The best thing I’ve ever found was a letter from 1937 from the author! it’s online here: http://www.thingsinbooks.com/found/thing/38

Comment on Asus eee pc - Thali thoughts by Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:22:07 +0000

Thanks so much for putting this together - your comments answer so many of my questions. “Cute” - yes, indeed!

Comment on What’s the THALI?? by Asus eee pc - Thali thoughts | Libraries Interact

Asus eee pc - Thali thoughts | Libraries Interact — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:12:21 +0000

[...] of the Thali are Asus EeePC users. We thought we’d compare our impressions of the eee pc , especially from [...]

Comment on All in Together - Learning 2.0 for School Librarians and the rest of us by Michele Antionette

Michele Antionette — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:50:08 +0000

What a wonderful tool for everyone, not just librarians. Thanks you so much for this blog. I learned a great deal from it and will come back often to see what else I can learn.
Thanks again,
Michele

Comment on Open source classification scheme project by Fiona

Fiona — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:32:48 +0000

It’s been a long time since I’ve looked in depth at classification schemes, but aren’t there already several alternatives to DDC? What about UDC?

Or perhaps there is a way to do as software developers do and fork something that exists and modifying it instead of starting from stratch?

Credit to LibraryThing though for being interested in these issues, I’d like to see them hook up with the Open Library project, and semantic web developers.

Comment on ALA Annual 2008 by Fiona

Fiona — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:25:42 +0000

Sorry Peta, no intention to offend residents, but I do remember a lot of walking in a very hot sun up at ALIA 2004 and that is what dominated my days at Anaheim. Agree that there are a few nice places to eat up there and the beach is a good distraction.

Roger - As a non driver, it’s the bus, walking or nothing.

Comment on ALA Annual 2008 by Roger Hiles

Roger Hiles — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:25:38 +0000

I don’t mean to sound like a shill for the Chamber of Commerce, but if you can manage to get outside of the Anaheim resort zone (i.e. by driving), there are actually many great food (and other) options in the area.

Well, I hope you have better luck here in 2012!

Comment on ALA Annual 2008 by walt crawford

walt crawford — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:36:54 +0000

Peta:

This year, something under 22,000 people were at ALA–but that includes exhibitors (more than 5,000 people) and exhibits-only attendees. Last year, the total was around 27,000. It varies a lot…

The OCLC Bloggers Salon is essentially a reception, named that by the It’s All Good team when it started. (I’m not part of that team, so can’t provide details.) It’s a place to socialize–not at all an internet cafe.

I would say there were plenty of food options–but, in the immediate conference area, heavy on hotel and chain restaurants. What there weren’t many of: Reasonably-priced, good-quality local and ethnic places within easy walking distance…probably because the whole conference center area is a resort area, not a metropolitan area.