Uncontrolled Vocabulary #26 - Welcome to Uncontrolled Realty

Uncontrolled Vocabulary #26 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
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Karin Dalziel, University of Missouri-Columbia student
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Courtney Stephens, Belmont University

Links to the show topics:

1. Perceptions 2007: An International Survey of Library Automation (Library Technology Guides)

2. Social networking for libraries a bust? (LibrarianInBlack)
LIBRARY WEB SURVEY FALL 2007 FORMAL REPORT (pdf - University of Michigan)
Data: Students + Facebook + Library Outreach (userslib.com)
are librarians culturally self-aware? (Loose Cannon Librarian)

3. Do you need to read books to be clever? (BBC News)

4. Wales urges librarians to help build better Wikipedia (Information World Review)

5. Strains and Joys Color Mergers Between Libraries and Tech Units (Chronicle of Higher Education)

6. My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress Blog)

7. What's playing at the library? (Philadelphia Daily News)

8. The Future of Ideas is now Free (Lessig Blog)

Submissions we didn't get to:

Upshur County Hires First Male Librarian (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Hey kids! It's finally here... (Seth Godin's Blog)