Laurabelle's Blog

Yesterday was a very busy day at work. I had tons of emails from patrons to catch up on as well as a couple of meetings to attend. I didn't get anything done on all the projects I have going! And it's not going to get any better; Jed offered me as many hours as [...]

I meant to write more about my fascinating and exciting three days in Long Beach, but I'm too tired, and I think it's just not going to get done. I went to lots of interesting sessions about user studies, digital libraries, e-commerce, and other current LIS issues. I was up all day, from about 7:00 [...]

Just got home home from the ASIS&T National Conference in Long Beach, California. If you don't know where that is (hey, I didn't before), it's south of Los Angeles. What a weather change! It was lovely and sunny, and apparently I missed a pouring storm on Monday. (Jeff sat down in his philosophy class in [...]

Okay, people, too many of you are using Internet Explorer. Yeah, I know it's the most common browser, and it's conveniently already installed on your computer, and I also know that some of you don't have control over the computers you use, but it's broken. If you can, you really should switch to a more [...]

Liz Lawley brought my attention to The Homeless Guy's blog. She mentions an audience member who showed her class the Homeless Blogger�s site, and it made them angry—they felt that it should be illegal for him to solicit for funds online, and that if he had a blog, he ought to have a job, and [...]

I haven't blogged about my work situation in a while, which is a shame, because there have been some real changes, and there are going to be many more in the next couple of weeks. I've become a lot more independent in the last couple of months, and I'm about to be given a lot [...]

I just realized that other than a very brief mention to note the fact that I was elected ASIS&T Web Deity for this year, I haven't said anything about one of the current major drains on my time. I should do something about that.

Title: An Edward Lear Alphabet Author: Edward Lear; made up and colored by Vladimir Radunsky Genre: Picture book: Alphabet Audience: 4-6 years Annotation: Colorful, modern illustrations prove that Edward Lear's alphabet poems are as fresh and modern now as when they were first published in 1871.

It's a terrible thing that I can't even look at a catalog record now without seeing errors everywhere. The title and statement of responsibility field of the bib record for An Edward Lear Alphabet Book in the KCLS catalog is wrong. That's a descriptive field, which means that all the words in it should come [...]

Dorothea describes conflict between tech services and public services librarians. She's probably right that it's there to some extent, but I'm happy to say that I've never felt that conflict, either in the iSchool or at KCLS. But now that I think about it, this quarter Trent, my cataloging instructor, made a comment about Mr. [...]