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.