Uncontrolled Vocabulary #20 - The Obama Database Company

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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

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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.

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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

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Uncontrolled Vocabulary #18 - Vote for 90% Porn

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

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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

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