Smart Networking at NYPL – Minor Updates

This morning I attended a staff training event at the NYPL, in regards about networking the smart way with Liz Lynch as host. The tips she gave are things I have encountered in the past before, but am trying to gain some confident to utilize it effectively.

Still searching for a job, trying to feel my way around job postings. Not much luck, and with grad school for MLS ending for me soon. I find myself grasping, and seeing if I am up to par. The economy is not good now, but I am optimistic that I will find a job.

NYLA’s coming soon, so I am pretty excited for that.

2008 Brooklyn Book Festival

I posted up the report, this past week about the Festival, and that is located here. That was an interesting and long day in the sun. I am right now doing a lot of things with attending conferences (NYLA, and Mid Winter ALA), as my MLS degree is concluding. Well, I graduate this December, and is joining the ranks of job hunters in this crappy economy. I am planning to write up a feature posts one of these days, about the library courses I took, so that can stand as an example of what type of classes are out there for MLS, and for what I took during my time completing the degree.

10 Ways to cope with Information Overload

Found this interesting article, ways to cope with information overload.

2008 Brooklyn Book Festival

Well I will be attending this event, which is on September 14 from 10am to 6pm, mostly as a representative from JLHLS with two co-writers, and the full schedule is up at the website..

Public transit from the MTA is the 2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall; R to Court Street; A, C, F to Jay Street/Borough Hall.

I pulled out events I would like to go to, but there are some conflicts in the 12pm slot. I figure that I’ll have to think about it some more.

Books to Movie – Fall 2008… a rundown…

Wow…swamped with my last semester in MLS. I found this list to be interesting.. so figure I’ll write a quick update. I don’t imagine that I have time to go to the movie to watch these movies.. but when it comes to DVD possibly. Although I wonder.

Amazon release of “The Ballard of the Bard”

Oh my.. well what have we have here.. I was looking at my mailbox today and guess.. what… “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” on sale by Amazon and what price differences there is!

Now I will probably read this book, but it has rode on the hype of being the book after J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. From that Lexicon court case that she was invovled in..  (sighs)…. I remember how that librarian fan cried.

Still a whopping $100 for the collector’s to the $7.59 paperback mass market copy.. is there even such a discrepancy? I mean how can there not be a standard hardcover copy? I wonder how fans would react?

Collector’s Edition
Standard Edition

X-posted from hobby blog. Wonder when will NYPL have it?

Books, Cataloging, Web 2.0

Currently I am enrolled in my summer class and yesterday the Professor was speaking about three websites that are useful to keep to keep track of books read. I never thought about it in that light before, but I figure I can mention it here…

Goodreads.com, Librarything.com, Shelfari.com. I love Librarything, since I got my first reviewing job from there and I feel that there is a semi-community there. Goodreads is something I joined because a classmate/friend uses their services, so I use it to semi-keep track of books I am reviewing there. Shelfari is the newest in the listing book one, and so far it’s iffy on selecting books owned and have read. There is accessibility in allowing people to chose the editions for what they have read.

I remember when i was young and before the computer, my sister and I role play and we would be pseudo-librarians, pretend making loan cards. Mostly I remember writing lists of books I owned and have read. So perhaps Shelfari can be that list keeper now.

Feeds and thoughts- Jun 11, 2008

It’s been a while since i wrote in this blog, finished my semester now just working and waiting for summer school and trying to survive this heatwave. I was reading on my feed and two posts jumped out at me.

Advertise your wi-fi for freebies to connect to the internet, knowing about these sources is important, especially if you would want to travel elsewhere with your laptop and want to know where you can get internet for free. The WiFi 411 seems to be relevant for me. There was actual results.

What is this thing we have here? Meridith Farkas’s entry on the enormity of blogging and how far should blogging be about personal issues or professional issues. One reason for why I have so many blogs on so many sites, other than testing out the site – but blogging about different issues.

Printing on Demand

I just read this tidbit on my feed and it is regarding about print on demand by a scientist at California. Science books are always published so rapidly that seeing this news is a little bit of a relief.  There is also a  Youtube video to see the process of what the scientist did.

Charms of Wikipedia

Wikipedia, a free source for the common people. How many hours have I wittled away at it. I remember starting to use it when I was in college. Still I was reading this book review and the article mentioned how the beginning was like and then vandals occurred.

When I am at the reference desk with students, often the professor will not allow Wikipedia to even be a source, however it would be helpful for the student who is doing a background resource to just read Wikipedia, but don’t take the contents of the site as gospel. There is always validated links at the external link resources that student s can use.

I like the usefulness of Wikipedia and it helps a little bit when the word wiki is spawned in other types of web site technologies.