June 8, 2012
timetravelanddonuts: From Life magazine: Photo from the 1971 ALA annual conference in Dallas. Barbara Gittings organized a booth offering free same-sex hugs and kisses. The American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table was the nation’s first GLBT professional organization. I’m proud to be part of such a forward-thinking field as librarianship. (For those that are interested, the booth received a (predictably) mostly negative reaction, with little to no people stopping by for a free hug. So the staffers of the booth hugged and kissed each other. Gittings kissed Patience and Sarah author Alma Routsong (aka Isabel Miller) while cameras were rolling and made the nightly news. That same year she appeared with a panel of lesbians on the David Susskind Show to debunk gay stereotypes of the time. She was approached in a supermarket a week after the appearance by a middle-aged couple who claimed “You made me realize that you gay people love each other just the way Arnold and I do.”)

timetravelanddonuts:

From Life magazine: Photo from the 1971 ALA annual conference in Dallas. Barbara Gittings organized a booth offering free same-sex hugs and kisses.

The American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table was the nation’s first GLBT professional organization. I’m proud to be part of such a forward-thinking field as librarianship.

(For those that are interested, the booth received a (predictably) mostly negative reaction, with little to no people stopping by for a free hug. So the staffers of the booth hugged and kissed each other. Gittings kissed Patience and Sarah author Alma Routsong (aka Isabel Miller) while cameras were rolling and made the nightly news. That same year she appeared with a panel of lesbians on the David Susskind Show to debunk gay stereotypes of the time. She was approached in a supermarket a week after the appearance by a middle-aged couple who claimed “You made me realize that you gay people love each other just the way Arnold and I do.”)

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June 7, 2012
total-impact blog: Keeping metrics free

total-impact:

Sustainability is important for the kind of infrastructure we want to build with total-impact. The obvious way to do this is to pass along our costs to folks who want to use the metrics, and we’ve discussed ways to do this.

However, over the last week, we’ve reached an important decision: in…

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April 23, 2012
patoney: This tribute to the life and legacy of E.J. Josey edited by Andrew P. Jackson, Julius C. Jefferson, Jr. and Akilah S. Nosakhere includes 48 essays by black librarians from across the field of our profession in academic, public, special, school media, technology.

patoney:

This tribute to the life and legacy of E.J. Josey edited by Andrew P. Jackson, Julius C. Jefferson, Jr. and Akilah S. Nosakhere includes 48 essays by black librarians from across the field of our profession in academic, public, special, school media, technology.

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April 23, 2012

eLife has issued a call for ideas to radically re-envision the functions and presentation of their forthcoming scientific journal—and hopefully herald in a new era for online scholarly publications.

My first, only, and most obvious suggestion would be to attempt to apply the idea of the decoupled journal. That’s unlikely to happen, though.

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April 23, 2012
Everyone’s a Bibliographer Now (on the relevancy of librarians)

Wading through Charles W. Bailey’s excellent “Research Data Curation Bibliography” today, I found that my eyes were crossing from all the HTML. I went searching for Bailey on Mendeley.com, so I’d have a more flexible way to explore the resources he’s so dutifully rounded up. Only, he’s nowhere to be found on the service, and his Bibliography does not have a BibTex “export” option, so that I can import this list into Mendeley or any other reference manager.

What does that leave me with? A list of resources I’ll have to plug into Google Scholar, one-by-one, in order to download the PDFs and import them into Mendeley, at which point I’ll have to cross my fingers that the metadata can be automatically extracted. If that doesn’t work, it’s 50+ citations that I’ll have to ever-so-carefully copy and paste into Mendeley on my own.

I might as well give up now and resign myself to never finding the time to read through Bailey’s selected articles.

All of this leads me to wonder—is the traditional bibliography (which librarians are still being taught to produce in library schools, and which many librarians still produce and post proudly to their websites) relevant to end-users, in the age of EndNote? Sure, there’s a group of Luddites who would still print out a traditional bibliography and dutifully search for the listed articles in the stacks, but there’s also a growing group of us who prefer to find, save, share, and annotate references on web services in order to save ourselves time and trouble. We’d really appreciate if traditional bibliographies were made “interoperable” with our means of doing research.

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