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.