Uncontrolled Vocabulary #23 - Dildos are subdivided geographically.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #23 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

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We will be taking next week off for the holidays and will pick back up on January 2, 2008.

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Karin Dalziel, University of Missouri-Columbia student
Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Katie Dunneback, Southeastern Librarian Services
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library
Courtney Stephens, Belmont University

Links to the show topics:

1. A New Jersey Library Starts Lending Kindles (Library Journal)

2. Students 'should use Wikipedia' (BBC News)

3. Encouraging people to contribute knowledge (Official Google Blog)
a few rough notes on knols (if:book)

4. A Treatise on the Black Market of Holds (LibrarianInBlack)

5. Johnston hunting for books to remove (The News & Observer, courtesy of LibVibe)

6. Down the Organization: Disorganized Librarianship (ALA TechSource)

7. Sewage for new-age library garden (Cambridge Post, also courtesy of LibVibe)

Episode 23 tonight

Episode 23 will be recorded tonight at 10 PM EDT. Check out this post and this post for more information on how to participate in the live call.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #22 - Nowhere near Nebraska

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #22 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Karin Dalziel, University of Missouri-Columbia student
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. Facebook Beacon
Thoughts on Beacon (The Facebook Blog)
Facebook Is Always Watching You (Wired)
About Face(book) (Fortune)
Zuckerberg Caves In, Lets Facebook Users Turn Off Beacon (Wired)
Facebook's Beacon was illegal as well as dumb (Boing Boing)
Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy (New York Times)

2. On not winning the Nobel Prize (Nobelprize.org)
In Nobel Speech, Doris Lessing Blames the Internet for a Decline in Book Reading (Chronicle of Higher Education)

3. House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites (CNET News.com)
Wi-Fi 'illegal images' politician defends legislation (CNET News.com)

4. A Librarian's Worst Nightmare (Slate)

5. Pooling Scholars’ Digital Resources (Inside Higher Ed)
Zotero Commons: Who Needs Libraries? (Library 2.0)

6. Max Planck Society terminates licensing contract with Springer publishing house (heise online)

7. Book Talk Flap Followed by Librarian’s Dismissal (AL Online)

8. Some initial thoughts on library advertising in Facebook (The Distant Librarian)

Episode 22 tonight

Episode 22 will be recorded tonight at 10 PM EDT. Check out this post and this post for more information on how to participate in the live call.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #21 - That's not really snark.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #21 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Karin Dalziel, University of Missouri-Columbia student
Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Courtney Stephens, Belmont University

Links to the show topics:

1. Library staff accused of race profiling (Yale Daily News)
Report finds race profiling did not occur (Yale Daily News)

2. Politically Charged Prints Cause Talking in the Library (New York Times)

3. Publishers Seeking Web Controls (Washington Post)

4. Reading's new chapter? (Star Tribune)
To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence (NEA - pdf)
Reading Down or Up? Not (Stephen's Lighthouse)

5. 278 pass librarian licensure exam (Inquirer.net)

6. Leesburg library tries its hand at marketing (Orlando Sentinel)

7. Simulated strikes (Grand Island Independent)
Gaming at the Grand Island Veterans' Home (Nebraska Library Commission Blog)

8. Best Practices: Book a Librarian for Training and Reference Assistance (Infoblog)

9. Children's book outrages parents (The Morning Call)

10. Middle Georgia College Blocks Facebook and MySpace in Academic Buildings (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Teaching road safety by banning roads (The Travelin' Librarian)

Episode 21 tonight

Episode 21 will be recorded tomorrow night at 10 PM EDT. Check out this post and this post for more information on how to participate in the live call.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #20 - The Obama Database Company

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #20 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

A million thank yous to Aaron Dobbs for stepping in at the last minute to host while I tended to my ailing son. Since he was so restrained, given the obvious opportunity for self-promotion, allow me. Aaron is running for ALA council and I suggest that all those qualified consider a vote for him. He's serious about reforming the organization. You can see many of his ideas laid out on the Improve ALA wiki. (Disclosure: I'm not currently an ALA member.)

On the call:

Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
David Fiander, University of Western Ontario
Tom Peters, TAP Information Systems
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Courtney Stephens, Belmont University

Links to the show topics:

1. Library secure for kid porn (Denver Post)
Libraries and police unite for tougher law on library criminals (BusinessNorth.com)

2. Broadcast won't violate library policy (The Hawk Eye)

3. SEC Investigates Omaha Database Company (AP via Yahoo! News)

4. Unsure what to buy children? Borders pushes safety of books (Detroit Free Press)
Senator Durbin On Toy Safety: "It Might Just Be A Good Christmas For Books Or Movies" (The Consumerist)

5. Librarian: 'Just say no to Wikipedia' (The Express-Times)
Balance in everything: Wikipedia v the librarian (Enquiring Minds Want to Know)

6. findingDulcinea, Librarian of the Internet, Launches in NYC (PR Newswire)

7. University of Michigan librarian defends Google scanning deal (ars technica)

8. Amazon's Kindle

Episode 20 tonight

Episode 20 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. Check out this post and this post for more information on how to participate.

No show tonight

Happy Thanksgiving to our American audience. We'll be back next week for episode 20.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #19 - This is kinda fun.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #19 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

We'll be taking next week off to let everyone drive safely to their Thanksgiving destinations. Next episode will be the following Wednesday, November 28.

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Michael Golrick, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library (Eau Claire, WI)
Heidi Hansen, Wayne State University student
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. What I Wish I Had Learned in Library School: A Public Librarian’s Perspective (LISCareer.com)
Things They Don't Teach you in Library School (WMUB)

2. Library Software Manifesto (TechEssence.Info)

3. We Know What Library 2.0 Is and Is Not (LibraryCrunch)

4. More on Blogging as Scholarly Communication (The Medium is the Message)

5. Porn in libraries is wrong, say residents (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Episode 19 tonight

Episode 19 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. Check out this post and this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #18 - Vote for 90% Porn

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #18 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. [RE]Nominate Your Mover & Shaker For LJ (LISNews)

2. Comments on Internet Librarian 2007
The Ethics of Conference Attendance in a Networked World (The Other Librarian)

3. OCLC releases new international research study (OCLC)
OCLC’s report on privacy and trust: the nut graf (Free Range Librarian)
privacy is not an option (walking paper)

4. Library books get insert adverts (BBC News)
Libraries to be 'new channel' for direct marketing (Guardian)
Using library books as direct marketing vehicles - huh?! (Library Marketing - Thinking Outside the Book)
Shelf Check #131

5. Harry Potter and the author who wouldn't shut up (Dallas Morning News)
Warner Bros., Rowling Sue School Librarian over Potter Project (AL Online)

6. Library and information science as a research domain: problems and prospects (informationresearch)

7. Unintended Consequences of The Social Web (The Travelin' Librarian)

Submissions we didn't get to:

What I Wish I Had Learned in Library School: A Public Librarian’s Perspective (LISCareer.com)
We Know What Library 2.0 Is and Is Not (LibraryCrunch)
John’s Eight Laws of Library Technology (John Miedema)
More on Blogging as Scholarly Communication (The Medium is the Message)
Digitization and its discontents (New Yorker)

Episode 18 tonight

Episode 18 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. Check out this post and this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #17 - The great experiment

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #17 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

No show next week as we will take a break for the Halloween enthusiasts (and in so doing, avoid the Internet Librarian conflict).

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Mickey Coalwell, Northeast Kansas Library System
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web (New York Times)
Digital ILL and the Open Library (O'Reilly Radar)
Open Library, really open. Aaron Swartz discusses. (librarian.net)

2. Materials Missing At Library Of Congress (Washington Post)

3. Alleged Terrorist Says FBI Violated Library Privacy Policy (AL Online)
Boy in court on terror charges (BBC News)

4. Sandia National Laboratories Technical Library Closing the Books (Albuquerque Journal)
Hey Library Consultant, Look Up Common Sense (Albuquerque Journal)

5. Editorial: Library porn filters would block patrons' legitimate inquiries (SiliconValley.com)

To be discussed later:

OCLC releases new international research study (OCLC)
OCLC’s report on privacy and trust: the nut graf (Free Range Librarian)

Library and information science as a research domain: problems and prospects (informationresearch)

Episode 17 tonight

Episode 17 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. Check out this post and this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #16 - The real thing you're going after

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #16 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library

Links to the show topics:

1. St. Louis Library Accuses Patron of Creating Controversial Display (School Library Journal)
Community Library Watch

2. St. Johns Man Arrested On Sex Charges (News4Jax.com)
Man violates 14 y/o in library bathroom (LISNews)

3. Librarians under new management (AP)
Privatizing libraries (Three Wise Men)
The Case for Privatizing Public Libraries (Locusts & Honey)

4. Something else to check out at library: Starbucks (USA Today)

5. Sex @ Your Library (Annoyed Librarian)

6. RIAA Wins in First-Ever Jury Trial; Verdict of $222,000 for 24 Song Files Worth $23.76
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer - Episode 43 (Shelly Palmer Media)
RIAA Misinformation Campaign Apparently Works (TorrentFreak)

Suggested reading for next week:
Library and information science as a research domain: problems and prospects (informationresearch)

Other submitted stories:
Boy in court on terror charges (BBC News)
Alleged Terrorist Says FBI Violated Library Privacy Policy (AL Online)
WorldCat Turns You Into A Library Power User (Consumerist)
Brave and Bold Library Product Promotion (checking out and checking in)

See you next week

As I remain hostless, I'm going to move forward with cancelling the show tonight. Look forward to resumed production next week.

Taking a week off/Hosting opportunity

I have family in town this week, so I need to take a break from hosting the show Wednesday. If anyone is interested in taking over hosting duties this week (as Mary Carmen has done so admirably in the past), I'd be happy to walk you through the basics. Drop me an email via the Open Stacks contact form.

If I don't have someone lined up by tomorrow night, we'll take a break and resume production on October 17th.

Sorry for the late notice and thanks for your understanding.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #15 - Your tax dollars at work

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #15 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Peter McCracken, Serials Solutions
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. Prisons to Restore Purged Religious Books (New York Times)

2. Harrison library charges fine for late mom's overdue book (Lower Hudson Online)
Sigh (Library Garden)

3. creating a flat library and the culture of maybe (walking paper)

4. If Tech Support is Broken, What is the Solution? (PC World)
Hire a librarian to do your computer work (travelinlibrarian on Flickr)

5. Lawsuit Against Virgin Mobile and Creative Commons – FAQ (Creative Commons)

6. College Students’ Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (OCLC)
Better Search: Libraries or Engines? (SearchEngineWatch.com)

7. Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience (New York Times)

Episode 15 tonight

Episode 15 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. Check out this post and this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #14 - A very Mars/Venus sort of thing

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #14 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Mickey Coalwell, Northeast Kansas Library System
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Peter McCracken, Serials Solutions
Michael Porter, WebJunction
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Cindi Trainor, Eastern Kentucky University

Links to the show topics:

1. On ISBN Numbers...Oops (Information Overlord)
Has Sense Flown the Coop? (Harvard Crimson)

2. Senate Introduces NSL Reform Act (AL Online)
Judge rules part of Patriot Act unconstitutional (MSNBC)
Ohio federal judge strikes down Net-censorship law (The Iconoclast)

3. Library Policy Hurts Privacy, Patron Says (Washington Post)

4. Lakewood Public Library Spies on Patrons? (Cleveland Scene)

5. Barrett: No more Blockbuster service at libraries (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online)

6. They're community centers, says chief who bans hushing at libraries (NY Daily News)

7. Libraries attract record crowds (Denver Post)
Family savings using the library: $10K (LibraryTechtonics)

8. Jackson-George library's decision to pull best seller is under watch (SunHerald.com)
Controversial Book Will Return To Jackson-George Library Shelves (WLOX TV)

Episode 14 tonight - Now live on Wednesdays!

Episode 14 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. Please note the change from Thursdays to Wednesdays. I hope you can join us on our new night. Check out this post and this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #13 - What stereotypes are we NOT breaking?

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #13 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

Please note that, starting next week, we will be moving to Wednesday nights at 10 PM Eastern time.

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Daniel Cornwall, Alaska State Library
Connie Crosby, Toronto law librarian
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Cindi Trainor, Eastern Kentucky University

Links to the show topics:

1. Information Policy for the Library of Babel (OK, we didn't talk about it, but read it. Seriously.)

2. Critic of sex education book refuses to return library copies (Boston.com)
Naughty novel? (Tuscaloosa Times)
On "Sandpiper" and irony (Tuscaloosa Times)

3. Are 1/4 of library bloggers cowards? (Information Wants To Be Free)
A Query for My Critics (Annoyed Librarian)

4. The Wyoming Libraries Campaign

5. Copyright Office chief: I'm a DMCA supporter (CNet News.com)
Technophobia or payola? (Pattern Recognition)

6. Coop Discourages Notetaking in Bookstore (Harvard Crimson)

7. U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read (Wired)

8. Announcing the “Stop Blocking” campaign (a shel of my former self)

9. Free Government Information on the road with the Internet Archive bookmobile

10. World’s Languages Dying Off Rapidly (New York Times)

Submissions we didn't get to:

librarians in the news (eclectic librarian)
College Student Banned From Internet (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Episode 13 tonight

Episode 13 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. I hope you can join us. Check out this post and this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #12 - Oops

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #12 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

Many of us had audio problems on this call. My apologies in advance for both the spotty sound quality and the repeated digressions toward discussing sound problems. I'll provide Talkshoe some feedback and see what we can do to improve that situation.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Connie Crosby, Toronto law librarian
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Sheila Kearns (whose info we'll get next time!)
Peter McCracken, Serials Solutions

Links to the show topics:

1. More on Darien Library

2. 10 Reasons Why eBooks Suck (RobNeville.net)

3. Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2006-2007 Report (ALA.org)
Despite Demand, Libraries Won't Add PCs (AP via Google)
ALA study: public library funding & technology access (librarian.net)

4. Facebook 'costs businesses dear' (BBC News)

5. Free Speech Sometimes Trumps Copyright (Wired)

6. A Day to Remember, A Day to Act (Christopher S. Penn)

7. Creating the 21st Century Library (In These Times)

Homework assignment to be read for next week's discussion: Information Policy for the Library of Babel

Episode 12 tonight

Episode 12 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. I hope you can join us. Check out this post and this post for more information on how to participate.

Two new easy ways to call in live

TalkShoe released a update for their TalkShoe client Friday that contains two features worth highlighting, particularly for those of you who hesitated to call in previously.

1. You don't need to sign up to call in.

For those of you who cited unwillingness and/or disinterest in registering at TalkShoe as a barrier to participation in the live call, hesitate no longer. Anyone can now call in without a TalkShoe account. You'll dial the same phone number (724-444-7444) and TalkCast ID (38665), but instead of the PIN, you'll dial 1# and be brought into the call just as if you were a TalkShoe member.

2. The built-in ShoePhone VoIP client is now available and FREE.

This is for the folks who don't have unlimited calling plans on their cell phones (like me, for instance). In order to take advantage of this free VoIP call into the show, you will need to sign up at TalkShoe, so that you can download the TalkShoe Live app. Then when you join the show from the website, the Shoephone will be available from within the chatroom. It's one-click simple and worked well in my testing.

There are some other interesting upgrades to the TalkShoe Live client that will be obvious to people who've participated in the past. In fact, those of you who participate in the live show via the TalkShoe Live app might want to trying joining in a different TalkCast this week, just to take care of the auto-updating before next Thursday. I could also set up a dummy call that would give folks the opportunity to update and check out the new client. If I sense any interest in that, I'll post here.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #11 - Things that need to be said

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #11 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Mickey Coalwell, Northeast Kansas Library System
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Katie Dunneback, Southeastern Librarian Services

Links to the show topics:

1. Judge Rules Provisions of Patriot Act Unconstitutional (Washington Post)

2. Where's the great literature in local libraries? (Guardian Unlimited)
Dumb Down the Libraries? What to do? (About.com) (courtesy of Library Stuff)

3. Who's Selecting Now? (Library Journal)

4. Top 25 Librarian Bloggers (By the Numbers) (OEDb)

5. The Juvenal of Librarianship (Academic Librarian)
No flip flops in the office: or, why business casual just don't work in a law firm (Enquiring Minds Want to Know...)

6. Envisioning the Next Chapter for Electronic Books (New York Times)
Amazon & Google To Enter eBook Business (TechCrunch)
CrunchGear Live: The September 5th Apple Announcement (CrunchGear)

7. Under the Hood of Web 2.0 : the top ten programming concepts for librarians to understand (The Other Librarian)

The stuff we didn't get to:

Creating the 21st Century Library (In These Times)
Science Fiction Writers of America abuses the DMCA (Boing Boing)
Can The Jobs Be Found (Library Journal)
As not read by Oprah (The Times-Picayune)

Episode 11 tonight

Episode 11 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. I hope you can join us. Check out this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #10 - A good time to talk about timid librarians

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #10 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Mickey Coalwell, Northeast Kansas Library System
Chadwick Seagraves, Private Academic Library Network of Indiana
Chris Zammarelli, Brookings Institution

Links to the show topics:

1. More on unconferences from Stephen Francoeur

2. More on Alms for Jihad (SFGate.com - courtesy of Library Stuff)

3. Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation? (Special Libraries Cataloging)
Where's the Threat (What I Learned Today)

4. Are librarians timid?
Ask for What You Want (Library Journal)
Easy for you to say (Gather No Dust)

5. Teen hacks 'useless' Govt porn filter (ABC News (Australia))
84 million dollar porn filter circumvented by teen in 30 minutes (librarian.net)

6. 2 New York prisoners sue to get their banned religious books back (International Herald Tribune)

7. BookSwim
BookSwim (It's All Good)

8. Slam the Boards! (Answer Board Librarians)

One quick note about Slam the Boards that didn't come out in my explanation: It's a one day event scheduled for Monday, September 10th.

Episode 10 tonight

Episode 10 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. I hope you can join us. Check out this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #9 - On the level of what Einstein did

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #9 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

By popular demand, the participants in last night's show:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Daniel Cornwall, Alaska State Library (also of freegovinfo.info)
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University


Links to the show topics:

1. Too Bad “Librarian” Doesn’t Meld Well into “Entrepreneur” (The Other Librarian)

2. On responding to emergencies beyond your walls:
Harris County librarians and UT Longhorn football players' arrests (Houston Press)

3. American reading habits - a new poll:
Where you fall in poll of U.S. reading habits (CNN)

4. McMaster University Library becomes an Amazon Associate:
Amazon Associates (McMaster University Library)
Associating with Amazon (WadingIn)

5. Cambridge Contacts U.S. Libraries over Alms for Jihad (American Libraries Online)

6. Inglorious displacement:
After 17 years of opening worlds, a librarian is shelved by school (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Children's librarian fired (El Dorado (KS) Times)
Residents speak out - Patrons express concerns on firing of children's librarian (El Dorado (KS) Times)

7. Library camps in New York, Boston, and Western Australia

8. No More MySpace at Tulsa Libraries (KTUL NewsChannel 8)

9. On the state of the library literature:
Communication (Lorcan Dempsey's weblog)
I didn’t say it (Caveat Lector)
Library literature: academic and generally useless? (LibrarianInBlack.net)

And finally, a homework assignment for next week:
Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation? (slc.bc.ca)

Episode 9 tonight

Episode 9 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. I hope you can join us. Check out this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #8 - We were talking about YOU!

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #8 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library

Links to the show topics:

1. We Asked for 2.0 Libraries and We Got 2.0 Librarians (The Other Librarian)

2. Discussion about the hype of "Library 2.0"
Library Automation Timeline (Marshall Breeding)

3. Wikipedia shows CIA page edits (BBC News)
CIA and Labour Party "Edit" Wikipedia Entries (Telegraph.co.uk)
Whole Foods CEO Caught In Embarrassing Message Board Brouhaha (Techdirt)

4. Reclaiming the Bookshelves for Reason (Guardian Unlimited)
Biologists Helping Bookstores

5. Hard Facts Oust Soft Chairs at Bookstores (Baltimore Sun)

6. There Have to Books Somewhere in this Place (theStar.com)

7. Ryan Deschamps joins in and we revisit Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and librarians

8. Border libraries have trouble finding, retaining librarians (Star-Telegram.com)
Small libraries can't pay enough to keep skilled help (The Charleston Gazette)
Community libraries feel growing pains (Bozeman Daily Chronicle)
Demands and Desires (Annoyed Librarian)

9. Why are libraries homeless shelters? (The Wichita Eagle)

Episode 8 Tonight

Episode 8 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. I hope you can join us. Check out this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #7 - There is always a take-home lesson.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #7 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Daniel Cornwall, Alaska State Library
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Chadwick Seagraves, Private Academic Library Network of Indiana

Links to the show topics:

1. Shout out about feedback from Facebook post

2. UCLA Taser Incident:
The Wheels of Justice (ACRLog)
UCLA Report Proposes Taser Policy Changes (American Libraries online)
Report Faults UCLA for Use of Taser (washingtonpost.com)

3. LibraryU- free online courses on library work, shelving systems, promotion and more (Illinois State Library)

4. Discussion of August 3 comments on "why the digital divide is a library issue" (librarian.net)

5. Discussion about blogging about work

6. What Boomers Want (Library Journal)

7. A List Without Libraries (Chronicle.com)
Library Resources Must Not be E-Learning Tools (ACRLog)

8. Librarians: Book Bandit Robbing Libraries (CBS news)
Man Accused of Selling $35G Worth of Items Borrowed from Denver-Area Libraries Online (Fox news)
Be Careful With Library Books (BYU NewsNet)

9. Patron Abuse Prompts Trial of Social-Network Filtering (American Libraries online)

10. New Program Color-Codes Text in Wikipedia Entries to Indicate Trustworthiness (UC Santa Cruz press release)

The Show Must Go On

Just wanted everyone to know that I will be taking a few weeks off as the host of Uncontrolled Vocabulary, due to family-related priorities.

The good news is that I've found a top-notch guest host in Mary Carmen Chimato. Many thanks in advance to Mary Carmen for taking on this responsibility during my absence. You're all in good hands.

At present, I anticipate no interruptions in the weekly conversations and I look forward to returning in a few weeks.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #6 - A big ol' mess, which I find fascinating

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #6 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

You can subscribe to the show via the podcast feed (now available at the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Michael K. Pate, Highlands County (FL) Library System
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Chadwick Seagraves, Private Academic Library Network of Indiana
Cindi Trainor, Eastern Kentucky University

Links to the show topics:

1. The Future of the Carnival of the Infosciences (InfoSciPhi)

2. Need a read? Get books from own library, Michigan court says (Detroit Free Press)
High court weighs right to check out library books (WOOD8 TV News - older story with additional background)

3. Libraries Examine Policies As Two Counties Target Illegals (American Libraries Online)

4. Mission Creep In Library System Deserves Fresh, Closer Look (Tampa Tribune via TBO.com)

5. Does Self-Checkout Make Libraries Less Friendly? (Seattlest)
Comments from Heidi Go Seek
Comments from Lost Baggage (Comment links courtesy of Library Stuff)

6. Am I a 2.0 Librarian and the Library 2.0 Spectrum (David Lee King)
Library 2.0 spectrum thingie - asking for your input! (David Lee King)

7. Court Battle Between Recorded Books and NetLibrary Heats Up
Recorded Books, NetLibrary in Lawsuits Over Audiobook Service (Library Journal)

8. Your Cheatin’ Listenin’ Ways (New York Times)

Episode 6 tonight

Episode 6 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. I hope you can join us. Check out this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #5 - I'm glad it excited someone.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #5 is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

Don't forget that you can subscribe via the podcast feed (now available via the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Rikhei Harris, Grand Valley State University
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Michael K. Pate, Highlands County (FL) Library System
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Cindi Trainor, Eastern Kentucky University

Links to the show topics:

1. Discord Over Dewey (Wall Street Journal)
Raising Arizona (ALA Techsource)

2. Critics say 'Oh no' to Halo (Daily Herald - Cook County, FL)
Kids likely can keep borrowing R-rated rentals from library (Orlando Sentinel - note the URL!)

3. Author's nude drawings too hot for US publisher (The Independent)
Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash? (New York Times)

4. For Architects, Personal Archives as Gold Mines (New York Times)

5. Transformation Lab - Prototyping the Future (YouTube)

6. Steal this book? Don't bother (CNET)

7. Crestwood library trustees: The badges stay (Daily Southern)

8. 'Fat library man' bullied online (BBC News)

9. How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life (Wired)

Episode 5 tonight

Episode 5 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. I hope you can join us. Check out this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #4 - They shouldn't have to be told.

Episode #4 of Uncontrolled Vocabulary is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

Don't forget that you can subscribe via the podcast feed (now available via the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Bruce Murray, Zedcast
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Cindi Trainor, Eastern Kentucky University

Links to the show topics:

1. Dewey? At This Library With a Very Different Outlook, They Don’t (New York Times)

2. Resolution on the Use and Abuse of National Security Letters (ALA - resolution text)
American Library Association urges Congress to reform laws governing the FBI's use of National Security Letters (ALA - press release)

3. Public Access to EPA Library Holdings in Jeopardy (PEER)

4. Open Library demo
About the librarianship
Brewster Kahle initial vision from 2005 (check out the flip book)

5. VuFind Rocks the House (Library Journal)
VuFind

6. If Libraries had shareholders (O'Reilly Radar)

7. Librarian 2.0- The new professional or the responsible one? (Library Garden)

8. Learning Commons Adventures

Episode 4 tonight

Episode 4 will be live tonight at 10 PM EDT. I hope you can join us. Check out this post for more information on how to participate.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #3 - It does beat waiting tables!

Episode 3 of Uncontrolled Vocabulary is now available for download. Here's a direct link to the mp3.

I'm attempting to replace the TalkShoe recording with the local recording I made with Gizmo Project, but my first attempt resulted in a "chipmunky" playback on the embedded flash player. So the original recording is what's linked presently. It has something to do with the encoding rate, so I'm trying something different and, if it works, I'll update the link accordingly.

Don't forget that you can subscribe via the podcast feed (now available via the iTunes Music Store): http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Daniel Cornwall, Alaska State Library
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Rikhei Harris, Grand Valley State University
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Cindi Trainor, Eastern Kentucky University
Chris Zammarelli, Brookings Institution

Tonight's topics:

1. More on Dewey freedom
Doing it without Dewey: A Perry Branch Library Tour (Gather No Dust)

2. On being hip
A Hipper Crowd of Shushers (New York Times)
For New-Look Librarians, Head to Brooklyn (New York Sun)
Hipster status, Determining your (A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette)
To be cool is to be young and male? (Free Range Librarian)
Librarians Rarely Make the News (Huffington Post)

3. If Public Libraries Didn’t Exist, Could You Start One Today? (Freakonomics blog)

4. Why ALA will never learn (Pattern Recognition)

5. EFF Receives First Set of FOIA Documents on the FBI's Misuse of National Security Letter Authority (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

6. YouTube Embedding and Copyright (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

7. Haines Borough Public Library's new Aquabrowser catalog, now with RSS

Episode 3 tonight

We'll be taping live tonight in the usual 10:00 PM EDT time slot. See this post for instructions on how to join us live. Hope to see you there.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #2 - Similarly, Horribly Aghast

Episode #2 of Uncontrolled Vocabulary is now available. Here's a direct link to the mp3. I realize now that I forgot to thank everyone who participated in the conversation, so let me do that here.

The show's podcast feed is at http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

Still not having any luck getting the podcast listed at the iTunes store, but I'm not giving up yet.

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Rikhei Harris, Grand Valley State University
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Here are the show topics and relevant links:

1. Facebook library apps DOA?
Catalog Search Apps Violate FB TOS? Make Your Views Known (Facebook - account required)
Facebook to library apps: drop dead (See Also...)

2. A Dewey-free Perry
Behind the Maricopa County Library District’s Dewey-less Plan (Library Journal)
Two Days Without Dewey (LISNews)

3. Break-in at the library? No internet for you!
Yutan library computers to go back online (Bellevue Leader)

4. Library agrees to Internet restrictions (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

5. Display books that you can't check-out (Jenny Levine via Flickr)

6. Library site runs afoul of civil-rights rules (Knox News, courtesy of LibVibe)

7. Medical information on the interwebs
New advisory group on health (Official Google Blog)
Google ignores medical librarians (Open Medicine blog)
Does negative press make you Sicko? (Google Health Advertising Blog)
Skeptical Medical Reference: Helping Patrons Find Critical Resources for Consumer Health Issues (Library Philosophy and Practice 2007)

Episode 2 tonight

Just a reminder that we'll be taping episode 2 of the show tonight at 10 PM EDT.

For those of you who prefer to only stream the show (rather than joining us in the Talkshoe Live! room), my understanding is that during the live show, you should be able to listen via the embedded player above.

See this post for other instructions on how to join us live. Hope to see you there.

Facebook group

For all you Facebook fans out there, I've formed a group for Uncontrolled Vocabulary. Anyone is welcome to join: 34 people already have. Help us answer some of the pressing questions in the discussion area.

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #1 - Poetry, Pure Poetry

The first episode of Uncontrolled Vocabulary is now available. Here's a direct link to the mp3 recording. You can also listen to the show via the TalkShoe player embedded in the sidebar on this blog.

The live event was really a lot of fun and I hope the recording conveys at least some of that energy. Perhaps you'll be encouraged to join us next week at the same time, Thursdays at 10 PM EDT.

The show's podcast feed will be http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38665.xml

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Joy Weese Moll
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Chadwick Seagraves, Private Academic Library Network of Indiana

In this inaugural episode, we discussed the following links:

Drug-users force closure of library toilets

Debut of the Espresso Book Machine

$75 for a session or $199 for the series ... ???
PUSHING IT FORWARD: TAKING YOUR LIBRARY TO THE NEXT LEVEL!
Giving and Taking

Aaron the Librarian » ALA Member Shushed by ALA Council
The Improve ALA Wiki

Threats Force SC Library to Cancel Summer Program
Diversity destroyers ruin it for everyone

Three ways to be there live

Thought it might be worth clearly laying out how one can join in the live experience either by calling in, listening and text chatting, or just listening to the live stream.

I covered the calling in instructions fairly succinctly in an earlier post, so I'll just reiterate.

1. Go to TalkShoe and create an account. When you do so, you'll create a 10-digit PIN. Remember it.
2. Download the Talkshoe Live! application from the site. I think this may happen automatically when you try to join the TalkCast for the first time, so you might be able to just go to step 3.
3. Go to the Uncontrolled Vocabulary page on TalkShoe and look for the Live Now! box. Click where it says "Listen, Text or Talk live." This will open up the TalkShoe Live! client and take you into the audio stream and chat environment.

Here's how you call in and join the audio conversation:

1. Dial 1-724-444-7444
2. Enter the show ID: 38665
3. Enter your 10-digit PIN, which will uniquely identify you and match your voice capability with your presence in the chatroom.

Note that you can call in to the show without running the TalkShoe Live! app, but you will need to create an account to create that 10-digit PIN. I do have one guest PIN if someone really doesn't want to create an account or I need to bring someone in on the fly.

The text chat is available within the TalkShoe Live! app, so simply running that without calling in will allow you to listen and be part of the text chat.

And finally, to just stream the show, you don't need a TalkShoe account or app at all. Just go to the TalkShoe page for the show and, if the show is live, there should be an option to listen.

10 PM EDT, Thursday. Hope you'll consider joining me.

The big day

Just a reminder that tomorrow is recording day. Please join me at 10 EDT for the inaugural episode of Uncontrolled Vocabulary. Lots of good stuff to talk about and I anticipate some interesting voices in the mix. Yours could be one of them. Check out this post for the details. Hope to see you there.

How to call in for free (for now)

I mentioned in the first post that there are two ways to call into TalkShoe without paying the long distance charges. The first is by having free nights and weekends on your cell phone plan (or some other long distance bundle or whatever). The other is to use a SIP-capable VoIP client, of which there are a few. Skype is, at present, not one of them. Access to TalkShoe via SIP is free for now, but everything I hear suggests it won't stay that way.

Anyway, I wanted to explain briefly how to use Gizmo Project to call in for free.

Step one is to download, install and run the Gizmo Project client from the link above.

You'll then need to type the following into the address bar to the left of the call button (the green button with the handset): 123@66.212.134.192

Then you proceed as with a regular phone call, by first entering the TalkCast ID (38665) and then your 10-digit PIN.

It's really quite simple, but the info can be tough to find on the TalkShoe site.

Story ideas and suggestions

I've been thinking about ways in which I can both organize my own notes for shows and allow others to contribute and help build shows. My initial plan had been to wikify the experience, but that's proven to be a little too clunky for my taste.

Instead, I'm taking advantage of tagging with del.icio.us. Anyone who wants to suggest a story for us to discuss can send the URL to del.icio.us with the tag unvocab. If you want to peruse the stories that might be discussed, you can check out the page for the unvocab tag.

News contributions and discussion topics are always welcome. If you do tag something for us, please also consider joining the discussion live. In fact, do that anyway, whether you have a topic for us or not.

Announcing the pilot

I've tentatively scheduled the pilot episode of Uncontrolled Vocabulary for Thursday, June 28th at 10 PM Eastern. I'm planning on letting the recording run about an hour.

Here's how you participate:

1. Go to TalkShoe and create an account. When you do so, you'll create a 10-digit PIN. Remember it.
2. Download the Talkshoe Live! application from the site. I think this may happen automatically when you try to join the TalkCast for the first time, so you might be able to just go to step 3.
3. Go to the Uncontrolled Vocabulary page on TalkShoe and look for the Live Now! box. Click where it says "Listen, Text or Talk live." This will open up the TalkShoe Live! client and take you into the audio stream and chat environment.

Here's how you call in and join the audio conversation:

1. Dial 1-724-444-7444
2. Enter the show ID: 38665
3. Enter your 10-digit PIN, which will uniquely identify you and match your voice capability with your presence in the chatroom.

You can also just stream the show without creating an account by going to the TalkShoe site, finding the show and clicking on Listen. But consider this my first of many attempts to get you to actively participate.

Once the show is recorded, it will be available here in the embedded player, via an RSS feed that I haven't settled on yet and from the TalkShoe page for the show.

Something a little different

OK, so I've had this idea for a podcast germinating in my brain for a while now. Inspired by the folks doing TWiT, I wanted to start something of a roundtable discussion about current events in librarianship. The concept was to get a regular group together, where each person brings a story or two to the discussion, introduces it and we bandy it about for a bit. Great plan, but it proved hard to do. Other priorities surfaced and the project never got off the ground.

Fast forward almost two years. The podcasting environment has changed some and there are many new tools available. One show I listen to regularly is Windows Weekly (part of the TWiT network of shows). In a recent episode, the hosts took live calls using a platform called TalkShoe. I was really excited by the prospect of unscripted live participation of the community at large and thought it would translate well to my vision of a casual regular conversation about library news. Participation, conversation, community, all the right 2.0 buzzwords!

Intrigued and inspired to dig further, I found that TalkShoe does two noteworthy things:

1. It provides a teleconference bridge for having multi-person live conversations, also providing audio streaming of that conversation along with a chat interface, so people have a variety of ways to participate.
2. It makes recording, publishing and podcasting of the audio conversations very easy.

Admittedly, as easy as it makes it for the host to produce and publish a live interactive show, it does present some obstacles for the participant. But you're all bright folks who can make magic happen, right?

Live participation in the show requires creating an account with TalkShoe. Why? Well, it allows you to download the TalkShoe client app and it provides you with a PIN number to use when calling into a show. You can participate live either by phoning in or in the text chat environment (or both).

In order to participate in the voice conversation, you have to make a phone call to Pittsburgh, so phone charges do apply. At this point, you can use a SIP phone client (such as Gizmo Project - Skype does not currently support SIP) to call for free, but this approach might not remain free. Of course, if you have a cell phone with free nights and weekends, this might not be such a problem.

The TalkShoe app that you download, which you do not actually need for calling into a show, allows you to follow the text and see who else is participating, both by voice and chatting. Voice callers can also use the interface to indicate a desire to chat and/or mute themselves. The chat is a little disorienting as it follows a horizontal model with which I must profess a lack of proficiency. See this screenshot. (The TalkShoe Live! app should work on Windows and Macs, but there is no official Linux support yet. I've seen mention on the forums of workarounds.)

It's really hard to describe the whole experience without checking it out for yourself.

It's not the only game in town. I also considered SkypeCasts and BlogTalkRadio, but found reasons to prefer TalkShoe despite its limitations.

So that's the deal. I'm putting together a just-about-weekly TalkCast (as TalkShoe shows are called) where we can chat about all things librarianship. My plan is to have some of the big "stories of the week" ready to talk about and leave things pretty open from there. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to join in and play along. I'll be announcing the first episode soon and I hope that some of you reading this post will be interested enough to listen along and ultimately join the conversation. Oh, by the way, if you didn't notice the blog title, the show is called Uncontrolled Vocabulary.

In the meantime, anyone with questions about TalkShoe or who's really interested in taking a more active role in planning and participating is welcome to contact me (try greg and then try schwartz @ gmail.com). Thanks for your interest.

Note: I should also note that TalkShoe has a dynamic ad placement technology and a sophisticated approach to sharing revenue with hosts. So I do expect some ads (they don't have many advertisers at this point, but I think they will), but with the trade-off of possibly recouping the costs of phone calls, equipment, etc. Not something I plan to apologize for, but that I do want to be upfront about.