In short, it’s time to devote more of my headspace to being daddy. Toward that end, and with a heavy heart, I’m putting the show on hiatus. I’m hesitant to declare it a permanent vacation, as situations change and I’ve been known to change my mind, but that’s a distinct possibility.

Couple of things I should say with regard to this. It’s not a decision I make lightly and it in no way reflects my enthusiasm for what we do here. I love producing this program. I love the conversations. I love the people who’ve joined me on this journey. I know some of them will be genuinely disappointed. For this, I am sorry.

I’m willing to consider alternative arrangements (less frequency, guest hosting, etc.), but this is only the most visible of a number of changes I’m making toward reclamation of my extra-curricular time. Please understand that the problem for me is not so much the hosting of the show, which is only an hour of my time per week. It’s the never-ending involvement: the slave-like attention to my feed reader, the setting up of blog posts, the reading and re-reading of proposed conversation starters. All worthwhile activites that I enjoy, but that require a certain constant level of engagement which forces me to make compromises with the rest of my priorities. I’m making a conscious decision to not make those compromises anymore.

If someone out there in listener land thinks they are up for this kind of engagement and would like to consider taking on the responsibilities of running the show, I’m open to talking about it. Yes, it’s my baby. Yes, I’m protective of it. But I’m capable of letting go, as I ultimately did with the Carnival of the Infosciences, my first LIS child. Just know what you’re getting into before you drop me a line (greg.schwartz at gmail). I find it unlikely that anyone will want to take the reins though, given that I waited a few years for someone to make a show like this happen before I did and it never happened. And even though I tried to make it take as little of my time as possible (so that it might be sustainable), it still takes a not-insignificant amount of time and energy.

Thank you all for listening and participating through 71 awesome, one-of-a-kind episodes.

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On the call:

Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Anna Creech, University of Richmond
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
David Rothman, Community General Hospital Medical Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Chris Zammarelli, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Topics:

1. Most State Library jobs could be history (pennlive.com)

2. Why aren’t ebooks taking off? Not enough pirates (The Guardian)

3. Doomed: why Wikipedia will fail (ars technica)
Why Wikipedia’s Policy to Blacklist Blogs is Outdated and Wrong (ReadWriteWeb)

4. In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update (New York Times)

5. A Dirty Little Secret: Self-Censorship (School Library Journal)

6. Is Your Library a Star? LJ Launches the Index of Public Library Service (Library Journal)

• Most State Library jobs could be history
• Library books fall by two million a year amid warnings of cuts and closures
• Why aren’t ebooks taking off? Not enough pirates

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The windstorm here in the Midwest caused its share of technical problems with the show, forcing me to spend most of the hour on a cell phone. Please accept my apologies for the unusually poor audio quality, but I’ll think you’ll find much of the conversation to be very worthwhile.

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Topics:

1. Libraries can keep books with lead-containing ink (USA Today)

2. Rutgers Faculty Agrees To Drop “Library” from SCILS Name (Library Journal)

3. ALA Urges Library Advocates To Lobby Now on Stimulus Bill (Library Journal)
Day 5: Get Ready for Major Economic Stimulus Vote Tomorrow (District Dispatch)
Portion of the Senate stimulus related to broadband expansion (readthestimulus.com)
URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Protect Library Funding in the Economic Stimulus Package (District Dispatch)

4. Palinet and Solinet Teaming Up to Become Lyrasis (LISNews)
OCLC and NEBASE’s future (N³)

5. Author’s Guild calls Kindle 2’s text-to-speech software illegal (CrunchGear)
Neil Gaiman waxes sensible on Kindle Audiobooks and the redonkulous Author’s Guild (BoingBoing)

6. Sony works with Netlibrary to offer Mobile Collections for the Reader Digital Book (OCLC)
Sony Reader Mobile Collections (OCLC)
O’Reilly Challenges Proprietary eBook Standards With Bookworm (ReadWriteWeb)

7. ‘Wall Street Journal’ Librarian Laments Shutdown (Editor & Publisher)

[Updated at 1:03 AM to add BoingBoing link]

• Libraries can keep books with lead-containing ink
• Rutgers Faculty Agrees To Drop “Library” from SCILS Name
• Will libraries be stimulated?

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Chadwick Seagraves, Private Academic Library Network of Indiana

Topics:

1. Library Waives Fee for Sully’s Waterlogged Book (NBC Los Angeles)

2. Children’s Books Get One-Year Stay from Anti-Lead Law (AL Online)

3. Berkeley departments skirmish over 3M contract (San Francisco Chronicle)
Berkeley library given waiver to sign 3M deal (San Francisco Chronicle)

4. Dallas libraries let you pay to check out hot titles (Dallas Morning News)

5. Watched Any Good Books Lately? HarperCollins Tries ‘Video Books’ (Washington Post)

6. Libraries and copyfraud (Ragesoss 2.02)
Ball State Copyright Conference

7. Guinness World Records book in school libraries (Nebraska Library Commission)
Message posted to SYSTEMS mailing list

8. My Top Tech Trend: Social software deathwatch (See Also…)

9. Amazon To Drop Microsoft, Adobe e-Book Formats (Publishers Weekly)

Topics for tonight’s show will probably include, but not be limited to:

• Berkeley library given waiver to sign 3M deal
• Library Waives Fee for Sully’s Waterlogged Book
• Dallas libraries let you pay to check out hot titles

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library (Check him out on the latest episode of CommandN talking about Podcamp Halifax!)
Rudy Leon, University of Illinois
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Topics:

1. Obama adminstration brings back the Freedom of Information Act and transparency in government (BoingBoing)
Obama administration embraces Creative Commons (Coyle’s InFormation)
Supreme Court Rejection Nixes Child Online Protection Act (AL Online)
Under Obama, feds may still snoop library files (San Francisco Chronicle)

2. At First, Funny Videos. Now, a Reference Tool. (New York Times)

3. Wikipedia May Restrict Public’s Ability to Change Entries (New York Times)

4. Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine (Guardian)
OCLC Defends Records Policy, Faces Questions, Suggestions, and Criticisms (Library Journal)

5. Google & the Future of Books (New York Review of Books)
A fire on the plain (Peter Brantley’s thoughts and speculations)

6. What’s New at LibraryElf

Topics for tonight’s show will probably include, but not be limited to:

• Wikipedia May Restrict Public’s Ability to Change Entries
• Under Obama, feds may still snoop library files
• British Library warns of ‘black hole’ in history if websites and digital files are not preserved

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Jason Griffey, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Tim Spalding, Library Thing

Topics:

1. OCLC Board of Trustees and Members Council to convene Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship (OCLC)
Why libraries must reject the OCLC Policy (part 1) (Thingology)

2. Ebook DRM provider goes dark, the books you paid for disappear (Boing Boing)

3. Congress bans kids from libraries? (Boston Phoenix)

4. Group Seeks to Take Over Providence Branches (AL Online)

5. Librarians to be renamed ‘audience development officers’ (Telegraph)

6. The Public Library Renaissance (Freakonomics)
Library usage will go up during a recession – management are you really prepared? (Librarian By Day)

Topics for tonight’s show will probably include, but not be limited to:

• Why libraries must reject the OCLC Policy (part 1)
• Ebook DRM provider goes dark, the books you paid for disappear
• Librarians to be renamed ‘audience development officers’

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Steven Kaye
Rudy Leon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Topics:

1. Nutter’s new plan to save the libraries: let non-profits and the private sector run them (Philly.com)
Judge halts library closings (Philly.com)
Nutter says ruling risks shorter hours at all libraries (Philly.com)
Philadelphia Libraries Remain Open, But Staff Cuts Mean Fewer Days (Library Journal)

2. Save the LIS Library! Petition

3. Ask-a-Librarian Services Need a Reboot (David Lee King)
Discrimination against chat and email users? I’m skeptical. (Llyfrgellydd)

4. ALA Presidential Hopefuls and YouTube (Pattern Recognition)
It’s Been a Tough Start to the New Year at ALA…. (ALA Marginalia)

5. Captain Underpants Doesn’t Need a Newbery Medal (Slate)
Has the Newbery Lost Its Way? (School Library Journal)

Topics for tonight’s show will probably include, but not be limited to:

• The Philadelphia story
• Save the LIS Library!
• Ask-a-Librarian Services Need a Reboot

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The show will be on hiatus for the next three weeks, in celebration of the upcoming holidays. We will resume production on Wednesday, January 7th. Happy holidays to you and yours.

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Colleen Harris, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Michael Porter, WebJunction
David Rothman, Community General Hospital Medical Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Topics:

1. Internet Cool Tools for Physicians (Springer)

2. The LSW Zine: A Call for Rants, Manifestos, Articles, and Artwork (See Also…)

3. LITACamp: How much would you pay? (See Also…)

4. Washington Dad Foils Plan for School “Librateria” (AL Online)
Lakota scraps ‘librateria’ plan (Federal Way Mirror)

5. Sad State of Affairs in Higher Ed (Guardienne of the Tomes)

6. Search and find magazines on Google Book Search (Google Blog)
Google Magazines (Pattern Recognition)

7. Stronger Roles for Libraries as Local News Aggregators? (Stephen’s Lighthouse)

8. A brief discussion of the merits of joining ALA

Topics for tonight’s show will probably include, but not be limited to: 

• LITACamp: How much would you pay?
• Sad State of Affairs in Higher Ed
• Washington Dad Foils Plan for School “Librateria”

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
David Fiander, University of Western Ontario
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Courtney Stephens, Belmont University

Topics:

1. ALA seeks $100 million in stimulus funding as U.S. libraries face critical cutbacks, closures (ALA press release)
Libraries want a bailout too (Sandusky Register)

2. Nashville Mayor Proposes Public Library Run School Libraries (Library Journal)
Library merger plan stuns officials (The Tennessean)

3. CBLDF To Serve As Special Consultant In PROTECT Act Manga Case (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund)
Neil Gaiman On The ‘Obscenity’ Of Manga Collector Christopher Handley’s Trial (MTV’s Splash Page)

4. SearchWiki: make search your own (Official Google Blog)
Google SearchWiki Must Die (InformationWeek)

5. 100 Librarians That Have Shaped the Profession (SLA)

Topics for tonight’s show likely to include (although subject to change):

• Libraries want a bailout too
• Nashville Mayor Proposes Public Library Run School Libraries
• Neil Gaiman On The ‘Obscenity’ Of Manga Collector Christopher Handley’s Trial

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Heron Stone

Topics:

1. ALA Grassroots Program Proposal (ALA)

2. Full draft of RDA (Library and Archives Canada)

3. List of content related to the OCLC Policy Change (wiki.code4lib.org)
Rule #1 for Surviving Paradigm Shifts: Don’t S**t Where You Eat (Stefano’s Linotype)
Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab (Raw Thought)
OCLC on the Run (Raw Thought)
Stop the OCLC powergrab! (Watchdog.net)
An open letter to the OCLC membership on the Worldcat Record Use policy (OCLC)

4. ALA Comments to FCC on E-rate: Audit Findings Point to Need for Simpler Program (District Dispatch)

5. D.C. Libraries: Not a Homeless Shelter, Especially in the West End (Washington City Paper)
Affluent white people can help themselves, thank you (Closed Stacks)

6. Whatever Happened to Library Blogs? (Pegasus Librarian)
Is the blog dead? (Bibliothekia)

Topics for tonight’s show likely to include (although subject to change):

• More on the OCLC policy kerfuffle
• ALA Comments to FCC on E-rate: Audit Findings Point to Need for Simpler Program
• Whatever Happened to Library Blogs?

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Many thanks to Aaron Dobbs for stepping in as the host tonight. It took a few minutes for folks to get talking tonight (please disregard the dead air), but once they got going, the hour flew by as usual.

On the call:

Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
David Fiander, University of Western Ontario
Laura Harris, Grand Valley State University
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Topics:

1. Summary of the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat® Records (OCLC)
OCLC’s proposed new guidelines for the transfer of bibliographic records (Terry’s Worklog)
OCLC Policy Re-released; Wiki shows changes. (Thing-ology Blog)
Notes on OCLC’s Updated Record Use Policy (Metalogue)

2. Planning Reference Extract
Using crowdsourced librarians to outsmart Google (ars technica)
Google, If Built By Librarians (ReadWriteWeb)
Too Late or Just Right? OCLC, I-Schools Announce Reference Extract Web Search Project (Library Journal)

3. Google Settles Suit Over Book-Scanning (New York Times)

4. Don’t Friend Me! (David Lee King)

5. The Library Student Bill of Rights – A TTW Guest Post by Char Booth (Tame The Web)

Topics for tonight’s show likely to include (although subject to change):

• Summary of the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat® Records
• Google, If Built By Librarians
• Google Settles Suit Over Book-Scanning
• Don’t Friend Me!

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Aaron Dobbs, Shippensburg University
Rudy Leon, SUNY-Potsdam
Kendra Levine, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Rachel Vacek, University of Houston

Topics:

Internet Librarian 2008
HOWTO give a good presentation (walking paper)
A Side Effect of Social Networks I Hadn’t Anticipated (Pegasus Librarian)
Reflections on Internet Librarian 2008 (Travelin’ Librarian)

As part of the discussion, we’ll probably take a look at Aaron Schmidt’s tips for conference presenting and look at some of the other online reactions to the conference, both positive and negative. Whether you were there or not, feel free to join in the fun.

If time allows, we’ll move on to Char Booth’s proposed Library Student Bill of Rights and the librarian who was fined for promoting his daughter’s book.

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Next week is up in the air as well. I’ll be spending most of the week with my library peoples in Monterey. (Being away from my fam all next week was another good reason to not devote my time and energy to the show this week.) We might try to do something next Wednesday from Monterey. I’m going to play that by ear. If you’re going to be at Internet Librarian and would like to get together for a drink or a meal or somesuch, drop me a line.

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Colleen Harris, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
David Rothman, Community General Hospital Medical Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. Librarians’ Internet Index Moves to Internet Public Library (Library Journal)
LII IS NOW ADMINISTERED BY IPL (LII)

2. Hakia Relaunches With ‘Credible Sites’ (ReadWriteWeb)
Semantic Search Engine Hakia Now Says It Can Filter Results By How Credible They Are (TechCrunch)

3. NC Program works to end shortage of Black librarians (LISNews)

4. Banned Books, Chapter 2 (Washington Post)

5. Sunset for the librarian (Littleton Public Schools blogs)

6. Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers (New York Times)
Reaction from Jenny Levine

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Librarians’ Internet Index Moves to Internet Public Library
• Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers
• Hakia Relaunches With ‘Credible Sites’
• Sunset for the librarian

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Julian Clark, Georgetown University Law Library
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Colleen Harris, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
David Rothman, Community General Hospital Medical Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. Reuters Says George Mason University Is Handing Out Its Proprietary Software (Courthouse News Service)

2. Senate passes Orphan Works Act (Daily Cartoonist)
The Importance of Orphan Works Legislation (U.S. Copyright Office)
AAEC responds to passage of Orphan Works Act (Daily Cartoonist)
‘Orphan Works’ Copyright Law Dies Quiet Death (Wired)

3. Trenton libraries’ money questions (6abc.com)

4. Teaching the “soft skills” in library school (Information Wants to Be Free)

Update: Sorry, I forgot to clean up some of the anticipated topics from this post. This list now reflects the actual contents of the show.

Update 2: I also had the link to the mp3 wrong, which resulted in the podcast feed not updating. That should be resolved.

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Reuters Says George Mason University Is Handing Out Its Proprietary Software
• Trenton libraries’ money questions
• Senate passes Orphan Works Act
• Teaching the “soft skills” in library school

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This episode fails to maintain the usual G-rated language standards. It fails to meet a few other standards as well. You’ve been warned.

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Robin Hastings, Missouri River Regional Library
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
David Rothman, Community General Hospital Medical Library

Links to the show topics:

1. Five seconds for feedback

2. Laws for Using Photos You Take at Your Library (Marketing Library Services)
Legally, should Libraries NOT be Using Flickr? (Tame the Web)

3. My NewLib-L Recent Post (Guardienne of the Tomes)

4. Libraries, pools, zoo eyed as businesses (New Zealand Herald)

5. Should You Live Blog/Twitter A College Class? (Techdirt)

6. Reference Books (Wall Street Journal)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Legally, should Libraries NOT be Using Flickr?
• Should You Live Blog/Twitter A College Class?
• Must-Own At Home Reference Books

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So we had a visit from Windstorm 2008 in our little chunk of southern Indiana. As you can see, it took its toll. Our town is largely without power, we are on a boil water advisory and internet access where there is power is spotty at best. Thus, I’m going to cancel this week’s show and hope things are back to normal next week. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Lori Reed, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. Hartford Library Chief To Retire (Hartford Courant)

2. Nampa library restores ‘Joy of Sex’ books (Idaho Statesman)

3. Judge waves gavel, says Avada Kedavra to Harry Potter Lexicon (ars technica)
Furious Author Cancels Pirated Book (TorrentFreak)

4. Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time (Official Google Blog)
Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives (New York Times)

5. Kennewick library giving students the boot (Tri-City Herald)

6. Libraries and English Department Partner in Exploration of Digital Readers (Penn State Alumni Library)
The Sony Reader Experiment at Penn State University (Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog)

7. Just How Powerful is Wikipedia? (SitePoint)

And here’s a link to the Mother Jones article I referenced, but that we didn’t discuss:
America’s Most Dangerous Librarians (Mother Jones)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
• Kennewick library giving students the boot
• Judge waves gavel, says Avada Kedavra to Harry Potter Lexicon

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Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Robin Hastings, Missouri River Regional Library
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. City Won’t Seek Jail for It’s Perfectly Normal Protester (AL Online)

2. An Open and Shut Case (School Library Journal)

3. Mayor Palin: A Rough Record (Time)
Palin’s Start in Alaska: Not Politics as Usual (New York Times)

4. Anger as council bans yoga and painting from libraries (The Courier-Mail)
Tai chi new home plea (Southern Star)

5. Appeals court smacks down judge for relying on Wikipedia (ars technica)

6. Bloggers and Coders (Library Journal)

7. Burned by Chrome (The Register)
Google on Chrome EULA controversy: our bad, we’ll change it (ars technica)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• City Won’t Seek Jail for It’s Perfectly Normal Protester
• An Open and Shut Case
• Mayor Palin: A Rough Record

And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:

1. Dial +1 724-444-7444

2. Enter the show ID: 38665

3. Guests: Dial 1#
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Don’t forget that you can also call in for free using Gizmo Project.

Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

While you’re glancing at the sidebars, take a look at some of the other nifty stuff, like our Cafepress store, Facebook page or nascent MyBlogLog community.

When the audio search engine known as Podzinger disappeared and relaunched as EveryZing, I was under the impression that it was a enterprise-oriented audio search tool. But apparently you too can access the power of machine-transcribed searchable audio. Check out David’s post for more details.

You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Katie Dunneback, Southeastern Librarian Services
Laura Harris, Grand Valley State University
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Michael Porter, WebJunction
Lori Reed, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. A special request: Helping Otto (and I) Out (Guardienne of the Tomes)

2. UIC library reverses course on Obama documents (Chicago Tribune)

3. The Diaries Interview (Speak Quietly)

4. Amazon Buys Shelfari and its Innovative UI (ReadWriteWeb)
LibraryThing strategy in an age of Amazon/Shelfari (LibraryThing)

5. Arrested library scofflaw: ‘They were good books’ (Today/MSNBC)

6. Random House asks young adult writers to contractually promise not to behave immorally (BoingBoing)
Children’s writers, don’t misbehave (Guardian)

7. Ithaka’s 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education
The Question They Forgot To Ask (ACRLog)
Libraries or Librarians (Redux) (T Scott)

8. County orders library audio books English-only (Frederick News-Post)
County reverses English-only policy for library audio books (Frederick News-Post)

9. “hi-fi sci-fi library” video is here!+story (Libraryman)

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• UIC library reverses course on Obama documents
• Amazon Buys Shelfari and its Innovative UI
• County orders library audio books English-only

And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:

1. Dial +1 724-444-7444

2. Enter the show ID: 38665

3. Guests: Dial 1#
TalkShoe members: Enter your 10-digit PIN

Don’t forget that you can also call in for free using Gizmo Project.

Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Lori Reed, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission

Links to the show topics:

1. On taking things personally (Any Hexagon)

2. Point/Counterpoint: the case for and against young adult science fiction (BoingBoing)

3. Concern over age bands for books (BBC News)

4. Ex-library employee awaits appeals decision (Ludington Daily News – registration required)

5. New law would require reporting child porn (Portland Press Herald)

6. Children’s knitting group turfed from library under new craft ban (Sympatico/MSN)
Discuss. I give you a topic (Yarn Harlot)
After the beep (Yarn Harlot)

7. We’re degreed professionals right? (InfoSciPhi)

8. LISTen Special Edition — The Intersection of Librarianship and Politics

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• Children’s knitting group turfed from library under new craft ban
• Point/Counterpoint: the case for and against young adult science fiction
• Ex-library employee awaits appeals decision (registration required)
• We’re degreed professionals right?

And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:

1. Dial +1 724-444-7444

2. Enter the show ID: 38665

3. Guests: Dial 1#
TalkShoe members: Enter your 10-digit PIN

Don’t forget that you can also call in for free using Gizmo Project.

Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary

On the call:

Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Robin Hastings, Missouri River Regional Library
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Tim Spalding, Library Thing
Richard X. Thripp

Links to the show topics:

1. Shelfari and LibraryThing: Awkward Bookends To AbeBooks-Amazon Deal (TechCrunch)
Abebooks news: The scoop for LibraryThing (LibraryThing blog)

2. Should Libraries Develop Their Own eBook Reader? (LISNews)

3. MD PL Director Accedes to FBI Computer Seizure; Possible Anthrax Link (Library Journal)
A Breach of Trust (LibraryCrunch)

4. 12 Tools That Will Soon Go the Way of Fax and CDs (How to Save the Earth)

5. If You Run a Red Light, Will Everyone Know? (New York Times)

I likely won’t get to listen to the show and create a proper post until I return next Tuesday. My apologies for that. I plan to return to my normal hosting duties next Wednesday. Many thanks to Mary Carmen for taking care of business in my absence.

Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):

• MD PL Director Accedes to FBI Computer Seizure; Possible Anthrax Link
• Shelfari and LibraryThing: Awkward Bookends To AbeBooks-Amazon Deal
• If You Run a Red Light, Will Everyone Know?
• Should Libraries Develop Their Own eBook Reader?

And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:

1. Dial +1 724-444-7444

2. Enter the show ID: 38665

3. Guests: Dial 1#
TalkShoe members: Enter your 10-digit PIN

Don’t forget that you can also call in for free using Gizmo Project.

Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.

You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary

On the call:

Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Connie Crosby, Crosby Consulting Group
Gabe Geltzer, LibGig
Robin Hastings, Missouri River Regional Library
Lori Reed, Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Deb Schwarz, Library Associates
Jezmynne Westcott, Claremont University Consortium

Links to the show topics:

1. A conversation with the folks from LibGig

2. Do Senior Librarians Have a Moral Obligation to Retire? (Law Librarian Blog)

3. Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? (New York Times)

4. Medical Version of Wikipedia, With Universities’ Help, Gets Ready to Go Live (Chronicle of Higher Education)

5. Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine (New York Times)
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On the agenda, but not discussed:
Boys seek new policy on children in library (Press-Register)
Tired of city fees, residents form own library (kgw.com)