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.