Walt at Random

Archive for October 9th, 2012

Review of two books on open access worth reading

Posted in Books and publishing on October 9th, 2012

A short item to call your attention to Joe Kraus’s post reviewing my book on Open Access and Peter Suber’s more recent book on the same topic. The post is worth reading (as are, I believe, both books).

Comments Off

Categories
- $4 (89)
- ALA (79)
- Books and publishing (169)
- C&I Books (120)
- Cites & Insights (307)
- Copyright (34)
- Food (27)
- Language (35)
- Liblogs (93)
- Libraries (273)
- Media (120)
- Micropublishing (5)
- Movies and TV (232)
- open access (3)
- Passé (33)
- Speaking (26)
- Stuff (283)
- Technology and software (125)
- Travel (41)
- Worklife (8)
- Writing and blogging (379)
Archives
▼ 2013 (109)
- ▼ May (18)
- ► April (12)
- ► March (24)
- ► February (28)
- ► January (27)
► 2012 (189)
- ► December (26)
- - Wrapping up 2012
  - Iowa public libraries
  - Losing credibility with one quick answer
  - Cites & Insights 13:1 (January 2013) available
  - Comedy Kings Disc 10
  - Georgia public libraries
  - Kindle books from Word: A micropublishing tutorial
  - AMPLIUS: 25% off through 1/2/13
  - Want HTML versions of Cites & Insights essays? It's your click
  - Florida public libraries
  - Kindle Fire HD 8.9 as a newspaper substitute
  - The Last Day(s)
  - Delaware public libraries
  - Give Us a Dollar... Kindle edition now available
  - Give Us a Dollar... now on Amazon, coming on Kindle
  - Cites & Insights survey: One week left
  - Connecticut public libraries
  - Colorado public libraries
  - California public libraries
  - The Public Library project and 20%: A reminder
  - Arizona public libraries
  - Arkansas public libraries
  - FELICITAS and other stuff
  - Alabama library notes
  - Cites & Insights format & content: A new survey
  - Alaska public libraries
- ► November (13)
- - Explicating the Graphs: A followup post
  - Libraries Serving 5,300 to 6,799 Potential Patrons
  - Box Office Gold Disc 12
  - Graphing Public Library Benefits
  - Libraries serving 8,700 to 11,099 potential patrons
  - Cites & Insights Volume 12 available in book form
  - Libraries Serving 4,000 to 5,299 Potential Patrons
  - Libraries Serving 11,100 to 14,099 Potential Patrons
  - Libraries Serving 3,000 to 3,999 Patrons
  - Cites & Insights December 2012 (12:12) available
  - Libraries Serving 18,500 to 24,999 Patrons
  - Sunday silliness: Two meaningless miniposts
  - Give Us a Dollar: A Request
- ► October (20)
- - Libraries Serving 2,250 to 2,999 Patrons
  - Libraries Serving 25,000 to 34,499 Patrons
  - Beyond Confrontation: An Editorial Experiment
  - Rude language and the heat death of venting steam
  - Libraries Serving 1,650 to 2,249 Patrons
  - Libraries Serving 34,500 to 53,999 Patrons
  - Cites & Insights 12:11 (Fall 2012) available: Special added issue
  - Libraries serving 1,150 to 1,649 patrons
  - Libraries Serving 54,000 to 104,999 patrons
  - Libraries serving 700 to 1,149
  - Fair use: a pseudo-post
  - Libraries Serving 105,000 Plus
  - Review of two books on open access worth reading
  - Libraries serving fewer than 700 people
  - Thoughts on individual library data
  - Cites & Insights 12:10 (November 2012) available
  - Mystery Collection Disc 33
  - Busyness in public libraries
  - A narrative clarification on reference transactions
  - Public libraries and personal computers (2)
- ► September (17)
- - Public libraries and personal computers (1)
  - When you're wrong on the message...
  - Give Us a Dollar: A budget table in detail
  - Program attendance: overall notes
  - Libraries that can do more, do more
  - Reference transactions, such as they are
  - "America's Biggest Library"
  - Corrigenda
  - A dollar a week? Actual public library spending
  - New category for Give Us a Dollar commentary
  - Better funding = more circs: The broad picture
  - Overperforming and well-appreciated
  - Cites & Insights 12:9 (October 2012) available
  - Give Us a Dollar...(2012-13) Now Available
  - Box Office Gold Disc 11
  - Eats, Shoots and Loses Credibility
  - Coming Soon...
- ► August (6)
- - Is Netflix Shoving Us to Stream? Apparently not
  - The X for X: How to succeed without facts
  - Cites & Insights September 2012 (12:8) Available
  - Two quick book notes
  - Mystery Collection Disc 32
  - Liblog list now available
- ► July (13)
- - Quiet(er) on the blogging front
  - Speak now...
  - A matter of degrees
  - Cites & Insights August 2012 (12:7) available
  - Give Us a Dollar: Any interest? (Redux)
  - Possible disruption
  - Cites & Insights Readership, part 2
  - Cites & Insights readership: Part 1
  - Public libraries rarely close
  - Comedy Kings Disc 9
  - A book is a book is a...well, no, not really
  - Never underestimate the power of good editing and focused writing
  - Give Us a Dollar: The Open Question
- ► June (14)
- - Mystery Collection Disc 31
  - Release notes
  - Cites & Insights 12:6 (July 2012) available
  - Box Office Gold Disc 10
  - Transforming Your Library Through Strategic Dynamism
  - Kickstarter: From trilemma to dilemma
  - Which one if either? A Kickstarter trilemma
  - Review Copies of "Give Us a Dollar": Another Offer
  - Give Us a Dollar: Case Study—Part 4
  - Give Us a Dollar: Case Study—Part 3
  - Give Us a Dollar: A Case Study—Part 2
  - Give Us A Dollar: Case Study—Part 1
  - Cites & Insights 12:5 (June 2012) Available
  - Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four
- ► May (11)
- - Mystery Sale--and the Lull in Posts
  - Full-color books on Lulu
  - Open Access: One easy thing to do now
  - Micropublishing Guide 40% off!
  - Accepting one challenge
  - Public library value ratios: Update
  - Box Office Gold Disc 9
  - Public library value ratios: More information
  - Public library value ratios: Feedback period extended
  - Public library value ratios: Worth doing or not?
  - Trends 2
- ► April (14)
- - No longer zero
  - Trends
  - Cites & Insights 12:4 (May 2012) available
  - 314GB plus 20TB
  - The worth of creativity: From jerk to troll in three easy steps
  - A post not written
  - Why I'm Giving Up Wired: Exhibit 1
  - Remaining uncertainties
  - Astrology is real. So is homeopathy.
  - Box Office Gold, Disc 8
  - Is this library open, a reading room, or closed?
  - Two digits
  - It's a mystery
  - The Greater Problem: A new focus for W.a.R. & C&I
- ► March (21)
- - Public library "closures" sometimes aren't at all
  - Cites & Insights 12:3 (April 2012) available
  - Micropublishing Tips: 2. Photos and Word's Save as PDF
  - Keeping on
  - Dear "daring" wine directors and restaurateurs
  - Public library data analysis: Is there a need?
  - Justified
  - Unplug or not?
  - Refreshing C&I revisited
  - How much will you pay me to pay for a subscription?
  - Mystery Collection Disc 30
  - The rare truly clever review
  - Who or what writes this stuff?
  - Public library closings/openings: A quick update
  - The nuts and bolts of DIY journals: A shameless repost
  - The I am / you are meme
  - Cites & Insights 12:2 (March 2012) Available
  - Just My Type: A mini-review
  - Results of second C&I survey
  - 50 Movie Comedy Kings Disc 8
  - Cites & Insights survey, only for people who read it online in PDF form
- ► February (22)
- - Suggestions for online-oriented Cites & Insights PDF?
  - They're Just Movies
  - Nicely played, spammer...but not quite nicely enough
  - The Canterbury Tales
  - Public library openings (continued)
  - Cites & Insights survey results
  - Survey closed. Thanks!
  - Dear Lexmark,
  - Last two days of C&I survey
  - Closing the Digital Frontier
  - Survey and Sale
  - Looking Back: hypePad and buzzkill
  - Mystery Collection Disc 29
  - Cites & Insights: Any more responses?
  - If you were freefalling without a parachute...
  - Public library openings and my problem with negativity
  - Surveying Cites & Insights readers
  - Blog maintenance: An update
  - It's not film noir, they're Mist Filme
  - Remarkable passive-agressive spam
  - Micropublishing Tips: 1. Save Paper on 6x9 Review Drafts
  - Box Office Gold, Disc 7
- ► January (12)
- - Data and CC licenses: I'm confused
  - Local supermarkets
  - Keeping it going: Another update on library social networking et al
  - How many public libraries have closed? Redux
  - Watch this space (and a question)
  - Cites & Insights 12:1 (January-February 2012) available
  - ITAL goes OA: Hooray
  - 50 Movie Comedy Kings Disc 7
  - A library is...: A possible offshoot of a social network scan
  - The Librarian's Guide to Micropublishing: Get it!
  - Prospectus: An Ongoing Public Library Social Network Scan
  - FWP: Why can't a browser just work?
► 2011 (174)
- ► December (9)
- - Book reading 2011
  - When grandpa used 80 column cards...
  - Mystery Collection Disc 28
  - Deadlines
  - Library sweep done, done, done
  - Making shopping decisions easier
  - Dear [some city] weight loss
  - The trouble with transparency and the creative arts
  - Texas complete--and a small surprise
- ► November (15)
- - Box Office Gold, Disc 6
  - Cites & Insights Special Issue now available
  - If you've written a real comment...
  - How many US public libraries have actually closed?
  - Texas and Thanksgiving
  - Dreaming out loud: An ideal ongoing sponsored project
  - Done Wisconsin
  - Spam or legitimate promotion?
  - Relevance and reward, 2
  - Virginia and something entirely different
  - Ashaway Free to Woonsocket Harris
  - Ohio complete: Good luck with the voting
  - New Hampshire done; Ohio next
  - Mystery Collection, Disc 27
  - From Agnes Robinson Waterloo to Yutan
- ► October (6)
- - Maine done; on to Nebraska
  - Massachusetts down, Maine next...
  - Relevance and reward, 1
  - Idle thoughts on completing a revision
  - Two isn't quite zero
  - Still busy: Another quick update
- ► September (4)
- - 50 Movie Box Office Gold, Disc 5
  - Social networks: Progress report
  - Cites & Insights October 2011 Now Available
  - Still around, still not posting much
- ► August (17)
- - Review of Open Access: What You Need to Know Now
  - 50 Movie Comedy Kings, Disc 6
  - Comments from libraries using social networks: One more time
  - Milestones, books, lists not discussed
  - A few posts I'm not writing
  - A twin non-review
  - Two trivial items related to C&I 11:8
  - New photo
  - Cites & Insights 11:8 (September 2011) available
  - The Zeitgeist: 26 is Not the Issue
  - Has your public library done editing/self-pub workshops?
  - Mystery Collection Disc 26
  - Balanced Libraries now available as EPUB
  - I humbly apologize if...
  - Writing about Reading (continued)
  - Fun with numbers: the first six states
  - Raining on parades?
- ► July (20)
- - Has your library stopped using Twitter or Facebook?
  - Does your public library use Twitter or Facebook?
  - If I Don't See the Difference...
  - Some Work, Many Don't
  - Google TV
  - The Top 10 Reasons You See So Many Lists...
  - Trends & Quick Takes
  - Where Do We Go from Here?
  - Sucker Money...
  - Talking About the Public Domain
  - Liblog Profiles 37-40
  - Hyperlinks in Cites & Insights
  - Cites & Insights August 2011 available
  - En*ti*tle*ment
  - Comedy Kings 50 Movie Pack, Disc 5
  - Rational pricing and reality
  - Social networks and professional affiliations
  - Cites & Insights non-progress report
  - Tiny little food post: Peachcots
  - ALA 2011 Exhibit Notes
- ► June (15)
- - ALA 2011: Random Impressions
  - Single entendre
  - Cites & Insights: Little steps and opinion request
  - ALANOLAHOCOC&I
  - Box Office Gold Disc 4
  - How Not to Offer Coupons: A CVS Story
  - I have seen the light!
  - Library 2.0: A Minor Modification
  - Balanced Libraries on iTunes/iBook, maybe
  - Of C&I, Library 2.0, ALA2011 and so on...
  - Micropublishing by academic libraries?
  - ALA Annual brief musings
  - Comedy Kings 50 Movie Pack, Disc 4
  - Open Access book: Thoughtful review
  - A post per month?
- ► May (12)
- - Mystery Collection, Disc 25
  - Library 2.0: A Cites & Insights Reader
  - Not missing, in action
  - Cites & Insights Revisited
  - Box Office Gold, Disc 3
  - Expertise and reality
  - Nature always bats last
  - A little Friday fun
  - Cites & Insights 11:6 now available
  - Mystery Collection Disc 24
  - Spring is really here
  - Cites & Insights: Any point in updating?
- ► April (26)
- - When an essay falls in the forest...
  - How intrusive are with-post ads?
  - Books read, books written?
  - Projects and possibilities: An update
  - Aggressive spam
  - The Flying Web: Bandwidth of an Airplane, Take 3
  - Liblog Profiles 33-36
  - Sometimes it's the little things...
  - Box Office Gold, Disc 2
  - Plonk and circumstance
  - Signs of spring
  - Why typography matters
  - Thinking about magazines and journals
  - LibreOffice Notes, 1
  - Mystery Collection Disc 23
  - Thanks
  - What a day this has been...
  - Small oops
  - Cites & Insights 11:5 (May 2011) available
  - Wrong, wrong, wrong!
  - May C&I: A little advance commentary
  - Sometimes counterintuitive is wrong
  - Fun with typography and Office2010
  - Print on Demand Doesn't Imply Forever
  - Anniversary Post: Six Years!
  - It's gone
- ► March (16)
- - Only amateurs...
  - Liblog Profiles 29-32
  - Two steps forward, one step sideways?
  - 50 Movie Pack Comedy Kings Disc 3
  - disContent: One more week (and thanks!)
  - Liblog Profiles 25-28
  - Google Books Unsettled
  - Obligations of a failed researcher?
  - Hardback annual C&I: Any interest?
  - Liblog Profiles 21-24
  - Cites & Insights 11:4 (April 2011) available
  - Open Access, the book: It looks great
  - Mystery Collection Disc 22
  - Followup to a leisure-time post
  - National Day of Unplugging: Count me out
  - Multiple trivia
- ► February (14)
- - Remembering the humorist-essayists
  - Some stay, some go: Notes on magazines
  - Feedback desired: Through-write or Segment?
  - Dummy post for comments on indexing
  - Gaming and Indexing
  - Topics and Tags: An update
  - Box Office Gold, Disc 1
  - Informal reader poll: One more chance
  - Trolls I have known and ignored
  - Liblog Profiles 17-20
  - disContent: Even more exclusive
  - Cites & Insights 11:3 (March 2011) available
  - Should I or Shouldn't I...
  - Coming in March: Open Access: What You Need to Know Now
- ► January (20)
- - An owl is not a lamppost
  - A week in the life, or why so few meaningful posts?
  - Most likely the shortest book I'll ever self-publish
  - Some milestones require celebration
  - Testing whether WordPress will prevent duplicate URLs on long titles when using title URLs, Part 2
  - Testing whether WordPress will prevent duplicate URLs on long titles when using title URLS, Part 1
  - "You can't buy a place for..."
  - Some milestones require celebration
  - The Zip Report: Andersonomics at Work
  - Real data on library use of social networks?
  - Mystery Collection, Disc 21
  - Cites & Insights 11:2 (February 2011) available
  - Mortal Sins (Friday edition)
  - Dear The Hamilton Collection
  - Odd start to the weekend...and four days left
  - Going long the right way (maybe)
  - 50 Movie Pack Comedy Kings Disc 2
  - ALA MW and learning from one another
  - Liblog Landscape 2007-2010 and C&I: An update
  - 2010 Reading (or not)
► 2010 (218)
- ► December (22)
- - A little anecdote to close the year
  - Liblog Profiles 13-16
  - Not really zombies: Blogs reborn
  - Blue skies, smiling at me...
  - Mystery Collection Disc 20
  - Liblog profiles 9-12
  - Liblog profiles 5-8
  - Cites & Insights 11:1 (January 2011) now available
  - Dumb software tricks pt. 4,715
  - Buying advice: Spaghetti Westerns
  - Free as a cloud!
  - Comparing potatoes and truffles
  - Two tiny book items
  - The blog in review
  - I love Netflix, but not so much...
  - Liblog Profiles 1-4
  - 50 Movie Comedy Kings, Disc 1
  - The Liblog Landscape 2007-2010: Now Available
  - disContent: Dear AT&T Broadband...
  - Liblog Landscape 2007-2010: Item along the way
  - Watching weight: Not just for others
  - Crowdsource request: What size figures?
- ► November (24)
- - LITA Farewell
  - disContent: One more 25%-off day and more
  - Musing about hard disks
  - A semi-review of an odd book
  - disContent: I Will Buy No Content Before It's Time
  - Mystery Collection, Disc 19
  - disContent: Metametametamedia
  - Quality vs. convenience/quantity, all over again
  - Liblogs 2007-2010: Something that won't appear
  - And we should trust...: An update
  - And we should trust our computer security to you?
  - The Cover Story, Part 2
  - The Cover Story, Part 1
  - Cites & Insights 10: 2010, Paperback Edition Available
  - disContent: The book looks great!
  - Cites & Insights Volume 10 index now available
  - Legends of Horror, Discs 11 and 12
  - A roominar I won't be leading
  - Cites & Insights December 2010 available
  - Doesn't anyone have editors, part 18,000
  - Transliteracy and Chess-Playing Bears
  - How about plain old literacy?
  - Just one of those weeks...
  - disContent: The Complete Collection - Limited Edition
- ► October (13)
- - Mystery Collection, Disc 18
  - It's been a while...
  - Open Access Week
  - Just go read this. Now.
  - How many liblogs at any given time?
  - Business biographies score again!
  - Legends of Horror, Disc 10
  - Cites & Insights 10:11 now available
  - 66,504 Facts & Formulas in 1.98MB
  - Wrong, wrong, wrong!
  - Is it reasonable to set variable standards?
  - The Way We Blog: Thinking about presentation
  - More aggressive spamments
- ► September (15)
- - To zero and beyond! A quick update
  - Mystery Collection Disc 17
  - How many posts? New deadline and re-request
  - Should this bother me, or not?
  - Friday musings
  - Stepping Back, Moving On
  - Liblog crowdsourcing: An update
  - Legends of Horror, Discs 8 and 9
  - One more crowdsource request: How many posts?
  - Approaching zero and other trivia
  - Taking my own advice
  - Mystery Collection Disc 16
  - Blog country of origin: A crowdsource request
  - Additional liblogs: A clarification
  - Arggh: A quick update
- ► August (11)
- - Liblogs: What am I missing?
  - A random post about random accumulation
  - The late summer slowdown continues
  - Cites & Insights September/October 2010 available
  - Legends of Horror Disc 7
  - Open Access and Libraries: Any takers?
  - Sometimes silence is a good thing
  - Aggressive spamments
  - Solutions looking for problems
  - Mystery Collection Disc 15
  - Progress (regress?): A quick update
- ► July (21)
- - Being a pro at crastination: Liblogs 2010 Update 3
  - Truly peculiar spamments
  - Liblogs 2010: Update 2
  - New life for fair use?
  - Starving to death on $200 million
  - The new project: Update 1
  - But Still They Blog: Platforms, Currency and a few more profiles
  - We grow too soon old...
  - Legends of Horror, Discs 5 and 6
  - But Still They Blog: Four more profiles and a rationale
  - Restoring the Leadership Collection
  - But Still They Blog: Brief Excerpts
  - What's a year among friends?
  - August 2010 Cites & Insights Available
  - Cites & Insights stats--quick note
  - But Still They Blog: Two sample profiles
  - Mystery Collection Disc 14
  - That's entertainment!
  - Of time and the movies
  - Warpage, An Update
  - What year did downloaded music start outselling CDs/vinyl?
- ► June (23)
- - Quick preliminary post-ALA update
  - Not reaching 18: A little photovoltaic update
  - Making the Case 3: Research and other improbabilities
  - Strategic Future of Print Collections: My ALA Gig
  - Making the Case 2.5
  - Making the Case 2: Leadership?
  - Making the Case 1: Sponsoring C&I (and Walt at Random?)
  - Mystery Collection Disc 13
  - ALA and All the Link Love
  - Random Sunday music musing
  - Another not really a book review
  - Two small milestones at C&I
  - CD lifespan: A clarification
  - Bandwidth of Large Airplanes, Take 2
  - Cites & Insights article links fixed
  - Cites & Insights 10:8 - Just in time for ALA!
  - What's Not Happening
  - The Future of Cites & Insights
  - Over-sharing?
  - I'd rather have spam in my email than scam...
  - Legends of Horror, Discs 3 and 4
  - A quick twofer
  - Does every librarian need to be an involved expert on everything?
- ► May (18)
- - A Special Welcome-Back Offer...
  - dr? dc!
  - Industry Standard, RIP--again
  - Fun with numbers
  - Questionable costs of mental-health days
  - Mystery Collection Disc 12
  - View/Download Counts for Open Access and Libraries
  - Time for a tract?
  - Three miniposts
  - Cites & Insights June 2010 now available
  - Computer Basics for Librarians and Information Scientists
  - Free lunch
  - Open Access and Libraries: Now available as print & ebook
  - New comment policy effective immediately
  - Open Access and Libraries: Penultimate Post
  - GPR6: A little egoboo at just the right time
  - Legends of Horror Disc 2
  - Grapefruit and changed expectations
- ► April (21)
- - Minor post: Finishing Silicon Boys
  - Language grumps
  - Shrinking for sustainability?
  - Little milestones
  - Mystery Collection Disc 11
  - The more you know...
  - C&I Executive Edition?
  - MP3 Doesn't Have DRM--Or Does It?
  - Cites & Insights 10:6 Now Available
  - Discovering Scalzi (or not)
  - Don't say anything online that...
  - Legends of Horror, Disc 1
  - If you're going to claim facts...
  - The cost of being inclusive and the charm of 2-for-1
  - Lulu PoD: Yes, but
  - World Cruises--and an extreme case
  - Last words on the iPad (for now, at least)
  - Mystery Collection Disc 10
  - 20 years: The "death of DVDs" in context
  - Sometimes strength is simply avoided weakness
  - Five years? Really?
- ► March (16)
- - Possibilities 2 (of 2)
  - C&I now includes live index
  - C&I 10.5: A note and a question
  - Cites & Insights 10:5, Spring 2010 Special Issue
  - The limits of self-editing
  - Spaghetti Westerns Disc 5
  - Quick post on two odd considerations
  - Possibilities 1: Keeping C&I going
  - Advertising against freshness? Really?
  - Seriously: A post in progress
  - Getting to ALA, Keeping a hand in--or not
  - Back in the market
  - Mystery Collection Disc 9
  - Old Flicks: What's Next?
  - A brief post with only 2% plagiarism
  - Cites & Insights 10:4 (April 2010) now available
- ► February (19)
- - A metrics update
  - Google Analytics v. Urchin 5: A Metrics Quandary
  - Spaghetti Westerns Disc 4
  - A Social Network/Social Media Snapshot
  - Nobody in their right mind...
  - Auditory Memory
  - Catching Up (sort of, a little bit)
  - Open Access and Libraries: Be my guest
  - Nonce post: Double-checking corrections
  - A pre-post post
  - The more you know, the less you believe?
  - Cites & Insights March 2010
  - Mystery Collection Disc 8
  - EPub from Word: A Third Option
  - Code switching: A trivial post
  - A funny thing happened on the way to modernity
  - EPub, First Attempt
  - No offense or disrespect intended...
  - No Index. Maybe No Book?
- ► January (15)
- - Spaghetti Westerns Disc 3
  - Universalisms, hype and straw men
  - New OA-related question (and status report)
  - Blogs by community college/junior college librarians?
  - Losing me in a single sentence
  - Midwinter musings
  - Cites & Insights 10:2 (February 2010) available
  - Mystery Collection Disc 7
  - HDTV and Judder: A real question
  - Friday Peculiar
  - Midwinter miscellany
  - A truncated meme
  - Cites ON a Plane 2010: A Pre-Midwinter Non-Issue
  - Honors and reflections
  - But Still They Blog: First review (that I've seen)
► 2009 (199)
- ► December (26)
- - Spaghetti Westerns Disc 2
  - Ebooks outsell Pbooks: My own story
  - Who can you trust?
  - Midwinter merriment
  - The teens and numeracy
  - Mystery Collection Disc Six
  - Cites & Insights 10:1 (January 2010) now available
  - LITA at Midwinter 2010: A Publicity Update
  - The Rest of the Liblogs (But Still They Blog, 12)
  - Stopping and Pausing (But Still They Blog, 11)
  - Cites & Insights: Accepting Direct Support
  - Why People Blog--and How Blogs Change (But Still They Blog, 10)
  - Correlations and Averages (But Still They Blog, 9)
  - Patterns of Change, 2008-2009 (But Still They Blog, 8)
  - Third try, Earlier date: Constantia, Berkeley or Berkeley Book?
  - Spaghetti Westerns Disc 1
  - Patterns of Change, 2007-2008 (But Still They Blog, 7)
  - Standouts and Standards (But Still They Blog, 6)
  - Conversations (But Still They Blog, 5)
  - The long and short of blogs (But Still They Blog, 4)
  - Changes in frequency (But Still They Blog, 3)
  - Mostly harmless: End-of-year meme
  - Cites & Insights 2010: A Third Option?
  - Rivers, streams and rivulets (But Still They Blog 2)
  - Cites & Insights: Opinions Desired
  - Looking at the landscape (But Still They Blog 1)
- ► November (19)
- - Liblogger subtypes and countries: There for a price
  - But Still They Blog: Now available
  - Technology signposts
  - Mystery Collection Disc 5
  - On Learning: A Reprint
  - Vanity presses, self publishing and PoD
  - Every liblog is a star?
  - Grumpy notes on a groovy? movie
  - Cites & Insights 9 now available as trade paperback
  - Early announcement: Book version of C&I 9 available
  - The photovoltaic paradox
  - Slapstick Festival
  - And sometimes it isn't...
  - Too darn long: An apology of sorts
  - How do you define "big"?
  - Cites & Insights volume 9 indexes available
  - Mystery Collection Disc 4
  - Cites & Insights 9:13 (December 2009) now available
  - Halloween pizza: Pretty scary
- ► October (16)
- - Sometimes it's just a waste
  - A tiny little LITA-related post
  - Sony's Ereader should be the Cell
  - Library Access to Scholarship: More thoughts
  - FriendFeed, trainwrecks and accelerated discussions
  - 50 Movie Comedy Classics Disc 12
  - How often do they post? A followup
  - But still they blog: Pausing for breath
  - Fun with statistics 2: The slightly-less-mythical median liblog
  - On the way from the dump
  - Fun with statistics 1: Mythical average liblog
  - 50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 11
  - Commonalities: The followup
  - Cites & Insights 9:12 (November 2009) now available
  - Commonalities and generalizations
  - Not giving credit where credit is due?
- ► September (13)
- - What not to post
  - Just the blogs: any audience?
  - Punt
  - Mystery Collection, Disc 3
  - But still they post...
  - Posts restored
  - Right back where I started from
  - Watch this space
  - Cites & Insights 9:11 available
  - 50 Movie Comedy Classics Disc 10
  - Golden oldie: The one true encyclopedia?
  - Open access: Feedback still desired
  - Public Library Blogs: Gone
- ► August (16)
- - Mystery Collection, Disc 2
  - It's not easy being greener...
  - Open access: Giving up on a theme?
  - Maybe I'm...
  - It's not called Portentous Posts from the Pacific
  - A brief note about the First Amendment
  - Two quick notes
  - Channels are easy, content is hard
  - It was twenty years ago today
  - Followup: Still insufficiently paranoid
  - 50 Movie Comedy Classics Disc 9
  - Monday, old, and insufficiently paranoid
  - Library blogs and the curiosity penalty
  - Cites & Insights 9:10 (September 2009) available
  - Just a little mini-study: How long could that take?
  - Mystery Collection Disc 1
- ► July (15)
- - Five years on
  - Libraries supporting local book publishing: One more time
  - Shorter, sharper?
  - Failures may not be
  - 50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 8
  - We and me
  - Welcome Dorothea!
  - Great customer service redux
  - Not dead yet, not really back yet
  - LITA IG plans and other failures
  - Restored copyright? Querulous comments on early Hitchcock
  - Any wifi experts out there?
  - Cites & Insights 9:9 (August 2009) now available
  - Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins, Disc 4
  - The fine print and grading on the curve
- ► June (19)
- - The dynamics of spam on a semi-dormant blog
  - Fading away? (More metablogging)
  - Preliminary ALA schedule
  - Culture clashes II: PDF, XML and what's in it for me?
  - Quick notes on research and information science
  - Culture clashes and conference etiquette
  - 50 Movie Comedy Classics Disc 7
  - Counting cycles
  - Moved: A reminder
  - My Back Pages: The C&I Version of Friday Fun
  - Trends & Quick Takes
  - Perspective: On Privatization
  - Interesting & peculiar products
  - A few words about Bibs & Blather
  - Thinking about Blogging 2: Why We Blog
  - Enlightening or disturbing?
  - Cites & Insights 9:8 (July 2009) available
  - Movin' on up: The last Walt at Random post...
  - Tracking Andersonomics
- ► May (12)
- - Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins, Disc 3
  - Cites & Insights: New sponsor needed
  - Coming back, possibly slowly
  - Responding as politely as possible
  - Raking in the big bucks
  - Not here and a cheer
  - Our house is a very very very...
  - Citizendium and the memory of water
  - Cites & Insights 9:7 (June 2009) now available
  - Freecycle: Good stuff
  - A home for missing comments
  - 50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 6
- ► April (13)
- - ...with the hi-def TV behind the bar showing a Blu-ray movie...
  - Three new things walked into a bar...
  - Open source public workstations in libraries
  - Meanings you didn't intend, #1631
  - Generally positive, mildly aroused
  - I got nothin'?
  - Cites & Insights 9:6 (May 2009) available
  - Two quick notes on "glitches"
  - Judith Krug
  - Stones, bones and a footnote
  - LTB--and a lot more
  - Thinking about Taiga
  - Four years and a much-needed tweak
- ► March (10)
- - It's Wednesday somewhere...
  - Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins, disc 2
  - Notes along the way
  - 50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 5
  - Cites & Insights 9:5 available
  - Congratulations to new Movers & Shakers
  - One born every 100 minutes
  - Ur doin' it wrong = Fail?
  - All quiet and a helpful hint
  - Congratulations, Meredith
- ► February (21)
- - 4. Libraries and Publish on Demand
  - 3. The Liblog Landscape Revisited
  - 1. Balanced Libraries, Second Edition
  - 2. Blogging for Libraries
  - Five alternatives: Seeking group wisdom, advice
  - Financial experts all agree...
  - Uncontrolled Vocabulary: Another one down (at least for now)
  - Dollhouse, checkpoints and sales
  - Cites & Insights 9:4 (March 2009) now available
  - Grumpy blind mini-review
  - Preserving the Zeitgeist?
  - Conversational intensity: Claiming a term
  - The awesome power of Amazon discounts
  - Predictably unpredictable: C&I in progress
  - Kicking the gift horse in the teeth, and other stories
  - Slight tweak in blog template
  - Cites & Insights 9:3 now available
  - #2? Really?
  - Tech trends, belatedly
  - A seriously meaningful post for a change
  - OLA, once over (very) lightly
- ► January (19)
- - Shiny toys, current tools, tech trends
  - From Denver to Toronto via sunny California
  - Off to Denver, offline
  - 50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 4
  - How you blog and confidence levels
  - Non-readers and non-sense
  - A nonce neologism
  - Ragged preliminary thoughts on conversations and unhermiting
  - Mystery problem--any help out there?
  - FB+FF: Putting in one big toe...
  - Cites & Insights Midwinter 2009 available
  - Walt at Random type ugly looking? Enable ClearType
  - Liblogs, library blogs, sponsorship and sales
  - Heat (or not)
  - A note on comment policy
  - OLA and ALA
  - Maybe not the best ever, but perhaps the most surprising
  - Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins, Disc 1
  - Only 14 shopping days left (and a change note)
► 2008 (226)
- ► December (28)
- - The first-post semi-meme
  - A quick invitation and a small change
  - The Liblog Landscape: Reviews and comments
  - FF,FWIW
  - From yesterday through January 4...
  - Freebies and price history
  - Things I pay for online
  - Going out with a whimper
  - Sam, our elder (not elderly) cat
  - What? A blogchain?
  - LibWorld - library blogs worldwide
  - Have you heard good music lately?
  - A cellphone incident (and an obligatory note)
  - Who hides success?
  - Cites & Insights 9:1, January 2009, now available
  - Public Library Blogs: a mention!
  - 50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 3
  - A Library Carol: Too good to ignore
  - PC Magazine: 27 years and out
  - Opinions needed: Three-day urgent request
  - Seasoned greetings
  - Continuing the silliness: Typealyzer tracking
  - Keeping it going
  - Prefer an ISBN?
  - Wrapping it up: Liblog Landscape 12
  - Generalization and PDFs
  - Liblog profiles (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 11)
  - Visibility and the larger blogosphere (Liblog Landscape 10)
- ► November (25)
- - Subgroups (Liblog Landscape 9)
  - Cites & Insights 8 available in book form
  - The 2006-2008 landscape (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 8)
  - Of chaos and stability: Two minor mini-posts
  - Correlations (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 7)
  - Patterns of change (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 6)
  - Getting the Picture (LL5)
  - Conversations (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 4)
  - How long? (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 3)
  - Looking for an ebook sign? Here's one
  - How many posts? (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 2)
  - Looking at the landscape (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 1)
  - The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008 Now Available
  - 50 Movie Hollywood Legends Disc 12
  - Cites & Insights: Volume 8 now complete
  - My own little numeracy problem
  - Cites & Insights 8:12 Available
  - The mystery of the disappearing bruises
  - Blog analysis
  - The rocky (buzzy) road to lower energy use
  - A current movie, for a change
  - Smaller, faster, better? Quick C&I changes
  - Sponsorship: A few words
  - 50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 2
  - Vote
- ► October (19)
- - PALINET08: Random impressions from a short trip
  - Psst: The moon is made of baklava
  - Hyperlinked list of blogs in The Liblog Landscape now available
  - NaNoNonMo
  - Two Office2007 lessons learned--one useful, one maybe not
  - Bloglines much improved
  - Oh boy, a free indie movie!
  - AL=OA, in case you hadn't heard
  - The Bloglines problem: My current solution
  - 50 Movie Hollywood Legends, Disc 11
  - Open access: A quick post
  - Cites & Insights 8:11 available
  - Aggregators: A quick note
  - Ejournal as blog: A novel experiment?
  - Some mildly Annoyed notes
  - Technorati and the liblog landscape
  - 50-Movie Comedy Classics Disc 1
  - Maybe an example would help?
  - Liblog landscape: Opinions requested
- ► September (10)
- - Old movies and lifelong learning
  - Up to speed and out of print: A catch-up post
  - Visitor: This I can live with
  - 50 Movie Hollywood Legends, Disc 10
  - Cites & Insights 8:10 (October 2008) now available
  - Liblog Landscape Phase 1 complete
  - Firefox 43%: Wow!
  - New liblogs: The short version
  - Library newspaper columns and blogs - followup
  - New libr* blogs? A one-week limited-time request
- ► August (21)
- - Thanks, whoever you are
  - Dear FireFox...
  - Publish to Blog: A note about the previous post
  - Happy Trailsâ€¦ 50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 12
  - Test post directly from Word 2007
  - Te Taua Moana
  - Library newspaper columns - a second call
  - The blues of black and white
  - Mystery collection: Twenty cents a movie
  - Diversity and the beholder
  - Library blogs--and newspaper columns?
  - Cites & Insights 8:9 (September 2008) available
  - 50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 11
  - The VHS to DVD transition and cost as a factor
  - Projects and rejects 5 - Possible changes in C&I?
  - Projects and rejects 4 - The real scoop on the books
  - Projects and rejects 3 - The one that probably won't happen
  - Projects and rejects 2 - The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008
  - When did OA become exclusively peer-reviewed articles?
  - What's a month between friends?
  - Projects and rejects 1: Do what you care about
- ► July (15)
- - Fox Home Video: A customer service contrast
  - My first cat picture(s)
  - Blogging less?
  - It's not the MPG
  - 50 Movie Hollywood Legends, Disc 9
  - Is "everyone" in Canada on Facebook?
  - Stone fruit
  - Some of the best work never gets reported
  - Cites & Insights 8:8 available
  - Three metaposts in one
  - I wish I'd said that
  - 50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 10
  - Three unrelated things
  - Gmail space: Wrong, wrong, wrong
  - Back, sort of
- ► June (18)
- - What's that interest group doing in Anaheim?
  - The devil or lack thereof is in the details
  - Between ambition and stupidity
  - Hoping for inspiration in Anaheim
  - It's Friday
  - Bloggers Salon: Palisades, not Avila
  - Cites & Insights 8:7 available
  - Experient, ALA, and treating first-class mail as junk
  - In case you haven't heard (over and over and over...)
  - Get the Word Out: an ALA program you might consider
  - ALA schedule so far
  - South from Alaska: A few quick notes on Holland America and our recent vacation
  - When did creative work become worthless?
  - 50 Movie Pack Hollywood Legends, Disc 8
  - So many connections, so little time
  - Not fully back yet
  - Thinking about books
  - Academic Library Blogs: Still available
- ► May (10)
- - Public Library Blogs: Still available
  - Balanced Libraries: A reminder
  - Using technology for balance instead of guilt
  - I still don't understand...
  - Comment policy
  - Cites & Insights 8:6 available
  - Another good customer service story
  - Wir werden zu frÃ¼h altes und zu spÃ¤tes intelligentes
  - Of wikis, transparency and customer service
  - Many distinctive local libraries
- ► April (17)
- - C is for Laptop
  - When will Gmail hit seven gigabytes?
  - 50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 9
  - Chevy starts with CH. So does chutzpah.
  - Farewell, ExLibris: It was a good ride
  - Making your own web a more elegant place
  - Unposted
  - Meaningful permalinks and a brief problem
  - Cites & Insights 8:5 available
  - Texas on Tuesday
  - Better living through contest-oriented mail order
  - 50 Movie Hollywood Legends, Disc 7
  - Disappointment and the Nancy Pearl Rule
  - Harrumph: When TLIs intermingle
  - 50 Movie Whatever: A Few Words about Mill Creek Entertainment
  - Getting up to date
  - Three years!
- ► March (28)
- - A really big look at liblogs: Good idea or waste of time?
  - Why do you blog?
  - Is librarianship a profession?
  - Three quick random notes
  - Too random even for me
  - Oops: Loosening a personal stricture
  - Cites & Insights 8:4 available
  - Academic library blogs: Illustrations
  - Academic library blogs: Comments per post
  - Academic library blogs: Comments on posts
  - 50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 8
  - Academic library blogs: Average post length
  - Academic library blogs: Total words
  - Academic library blogs: Doing the quintiles 1, Posting frequency
  - Public library blogs: Illustrations per post - the final quintile
  - Public library blogs: Number of illustrations
  - Public library blogs: Comments per post
  - Public library blogs: Comments on posts
  - Public library blogs: Average post length
  - Public library blogs: Total words
  - Public library blogs: Posting frequency
  - Blogging libraries: Doing the quintiles
  - Unanswered questions: A natural for a new library wiki?
  - The 12-hour entrepreneurial book!
  - Cites & Insights: The Centenary Issue is still available
  - Cleaning up after yourselves: A suggestion for LIS faculty
  - Two weeks in: Not cursing, more productive
  - Does anybody (still) use Windows Me?
- ► February (17)
- - 50 Movie Hollywood Legends, Disc 6
  - Still not on Twitter, and more
  - Chris Anderson redefines "media"!
  - The Tech-Not discussion
  - My Word! The mini-saga continues
  - Update and promotion
  - Reasonably quiet PC: an update
  - Just in time...
  - Cites & Insights 8:3 available - the centenary issue
  - If you're seeing a bunch of "new" W.a.R. posts in your aggregator...
  - Hello webmaster: Coping with clever spam
  - The blogging books: An invitation and a promise
  - Respecting your readers...and your profession
  - Bye bye, Independence: A nostalgic post
  - 50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 7
  - Why I'm a library professional
  - The perils of commenting
- ► January (18)
- - Supporting Cites & Insights: Thanks!
  - Nobody ever said... a post on semantic difficulties
  - The new bandwagon is the anti-bandwagon?
  - Hollywood Legends 50 Movie Pack, Disc 5
  - Cites & Insights 8:2 available
  - Reasonably quiet PCs: Advice?
  - 50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 6
  - Academic Library Blogs: Who's Included
  - Blogs shouldn't be discussed in print books?
  - "Hidden" wines--maybe not all that hidden
  - Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples
  - Books, a quick update
  - Some notes in lieu of a new year's post and Midwinter post
  - Giving in to MP3--on my terms
  - Living in paradise
  - If you're going to Anaheim..
  - Cites & Insights 8:1 now available
  - One small New Year's Resolution (thanks, Dorothea)
► 2007 (204)
- ► December (10)
- - Cites & Insights 6 now available in book form
  - Ho ho ho: Seasonal miscellany
  - At least it's the right platform
  - 50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 5
  - 'Tain't funny. Never was.
  - The year in sentences
  - Buying a general-purpose PC: Quick advice?
  - Looking good: C&I 7 arrives
  - Dear [name of nonprofit/charity goes here]:
  - 50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 4
- ► November (12)
- - C&I Volume 7: Buy the book!
  - Cites & Insights: Index to volume 7--and a print version
  - Food pills and the Kindle
  - Cites & Insights 7:13 available
  - Cites & Insights: A pre-announcement
  - Reading level?
  - Hollywood Legends 50 Movie Pack, Disc 4
  - Comments: Slight (automated) change in policy--and an ALA note
  - Wikis, authorship and collaboration: A question
  - Good writers write a lot...
  - Missing videos and photos: A minor mystery
  - Library 2.0: Now that that's settled...
- ► October (17)
- - Even fewer posts
  - Self-circulation and secret numbers
  - Convenient catch-all grumpy old man post
  - TV, critics, personal taste: 2007 early season musings
  - 50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 3
  - Cites & Insights 7:12 available
  - Next-Generation Library Catalogs (LTR): Mini-review
  - The future of libraries
  - Thanks again
  - Joshing, spoofing and damage
  - Where are you?
  - Plotting a new course (and an apology)
  - Random thoughts in between
  - A special thanks to Peggy Sullivan
  - 50 Movie Pack Hollywood Legends, Disc 3
  - The job: Director & Managing Editor, PALINET Leadership Network
  - New position: Removing the uncertainty
- ► September (20)
- - #9: Better than #8. No, really.
  - Returning to ONLINE Magazine: Another upbeat announcement
  - John Miedema on Balanced Libraries
  - 28 years, three months, 17 days--and no hours
  - Finding fault, finding virtue
  - Fun with computers
  - Future of C&I (& this blog): blue skies
  - Andrew, not David
  - Cites & Insights 7:11 available
  - The future of Cites & Insights
  - Deleted post
  - 50 Movie Pack Western Classics, Disc 2
  - Present at the Big Bang?
  - You want clouds, you get clouds
  - Another food post
  - What's wrong with this picture?
  - Woodchuck Friday
  - Noodging that "top 25 list" a little more
  - Woohoo! I'm Number Eight!
  - Emma--the musical
- ► August (21)
- - Maybe real topics next month
  - Public Library Blogs: now available at Amazon
  - 50 Movie Pack Hollywood Legends, Disc 2
  - A partial list of intriguing public library blogs
  - Public Library Blogs: A few metrics
  - Public Library Blogs: Varieties of blogs
  - Public Library Blogs: A little more detail
  - Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples
  - Balanced Libraries: Now available with ISBN, price increase
  - The Storied Library
  - Cites & Insights 7:10 available
  - Quick update on several statuses
  - CreateSpace/Amazon: Another experiment
  - Good blogs, bad blogs
  - Service area populations: Paring down the open list - DONE!
  - 50-Movie Western Classics, Disc 1
  - Public Library Blogs: Your help requested, maybe?
  - What about academic library blogs?
  - Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples--coming soon!
  - Post-OCLC: A midterm update
  - Real age?
- ► July (15)
- - Surveying the state of liblogs
  - 50 Movie Pack Hollywood Legends, Disc 1
  - A book reading meme
  - A quick apology
  - Cites & Insights 7:9 available
  - Making the Sausage
  - Balance and social networking
  - Borrowing your watch: An apology to some consultants
  - Summer doldrums?
  - Clarifying a milestone
  - Academic librarian blog
  - One book that won't happen
  - Classic Musicals 50-Movie Pack, Disc 12
  - Crying foul
  - ALA-related musings, job situation, etc.
- ► June (18)
- - Why I'm no longer Twittering
  - A milestone minipost
  - Cites & Insights 7:8 available
  - First post-ALA post (or "Why C&I 7.8 will be delayed slightly")
  - Job possibilities and ALA non-schedule
  - Balanced Libraries: First milestone
  - Pointing with Pride
  - Technology Competencies and Training for Libraries: A mini-review
  - Authority, Formality, Reality, Hypocrisy
  - Twitter?
  - Tri-tip: A Food Question
  - Social software/social networks: YMMV
  - Balanced Libraries: Recent reviews
  - Cites & Insights Plus: One partial "What's Next?" Scenario
  - Choosing your patrons: A cautionary tale
  - Getting your fifteen minutes
  - 50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 11
  - Almost there: trimming the sidebar
- ► May (18)
- - How many weeks does it take the scum to show up on a social medium?
  - Balanced Libraries, two months in
  - Cites on a Plane 2: This Time It's For Keeps
  - 50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 10
  - Social Software in Libraries: Not Quite a Review
  - Thanks--and an update
  - Post-ALA, post-OCLC: What's next?
  - Fair(y) use: Brilliant
  - Structured Procrastination: There's a name for it!
  - On Disagreement: A Partial Pre-Essay
  - Cites & Insights: A reminder
  - Google Book Search and egosearching (redux)
  - Cites & Insights 7:6 available
  - 50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 9
  - Housekeeping notes
  - Death of a Salesman
  - Lackluster veteran: Bias, much?
  - Citizen vs. consumer
- ► April (17)
- - A comment on commenting
  - 50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 8
  - Balanced Libraries one month in
  - And now I am 243: Changes in Worldcat.org
  - Thirty years: A quick appreciation of [I]ASFM
  - Housekeeping
  - If you're going to Kennewick...
  - Moderation in all things
  - E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: a few belated words
  - Cites & Insights 7:5 available
  - Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.
  - 50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 7
  - Five blogger heroes (sort of)
  - Foxit Reader: Cleaning up loose ends
  - The things I didn't say
  - Balanced Libraries: Links to reviews and comments
  - Two years (and one day)
- ► March (20)
- - Threats Aren't Debate, and They're Not Acceptable
  - 50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 6
  - Kudos and apologies: One more Friday p.m. post
  - Apology of sorts
  - Balanced Libraries: Overall comments
  - Cites & Insights 7:4 available
  - Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change
  - COPA and unintended consequences
  - Minor milestones (or not)
  - Most Cited Authors in Library Literature: A little polite bragging
  - fiveblogs
  - YouTube, Viacom, Safe Harbor and the Big Media Bait-n-Switch
  - Something's coming...
  - If you read me via Bloglines, please...
  - Kid lit bloggers have more fun
  - Cable broadband: Exceeding the unstated speed limit
  - Where your patrons are--or are they?
  - Why I don't call it "snail mail"
  - Wikipedia: A bigger problem than supposed liberalism
  - Classic Musicals 50 Movie Pack, Disc 5
- ► February (18)
- - Communities of Practice
  - Wikipedia too liberal for you?
  - Cites & Insights 7:3 available
  - Worldcat Registry - more than I expected!
  - Closing comments
  - ZoneAlarm Pro: An update
  - Windows Vista: My take, for what it's worth
  - Are you reading this?
  - Immigrants want to party like it's 1950?
  - WorldCat Identities
  - Classic Musicals 50 Movie Pack, Disc 4
  - Frogs
  - Maybe I just had the wrong video
  - How vital is an ISBN? A lazyweb question
  - On not getting it, or YMMV
  - Drone
  - A little Friday afternoon posting
  - Steam
- ► January (18)
- - Late Bloglines notifications: You're not alone
  - C&I 7:2 available
  - COAP has flown away
  - Back from Midwinter
  - The power of the [e]press
  - 50-Movie Classic Musicals, Disc 3
  - Third time's the charm/three strikes you're out
  - Giving up on Norton
  - An advance mini-review
  - Win:win situations, infinite possibilities, and lemonade
  - Cites on a Plane!
  - Five plus one
  - I respectfully disagree
  - Cites & Insights news and status, if you care
  - One terabyte drive: Three months late
  - Changing times: Not a political post
  - Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide (more of a review)
  - Better late than...
► 2006 (239)
- ► December (23)
- - Liblog mortality, Part II - an encouraging end-of-year note
  - 50-Movie Classic Musicals, Disc 2
  - Bring out the dead blogs!
  - Not gone, just quiet
  - Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide
  - Are you Bloglining this?
  - Cites & Insights 2006: A few "popularity" notes
  - Five things you might not know (or care) about me
  - Cites & Insights 7:1 available
  - The bewilderments of egosearching
  - Hi-def optical discs on the last major weekend
  - Good story on three new Bay Area public libraries
  - A tiny follow-up post
  - Book publishing in the U.S.: Bigger than we thought?
  - Getting a second opinion
  - Startling facts, or not
  - 50-Movie Classic Musicals, Disc 1
  - My father...
  - AutoBlooks: I guess I just don't understand
  - Comments
  - Speaking of New York: A quick post on definitions
  - Boutique hotel in Manhattan: Run away!
  - C&I Feedback Invitation 4: Interesting & Peculiar Products
- ► November (25)
- - C&I Feedback Invitation 3: Library Access to Scholarship
  - Let's do the numbers: I'll bite
  - Has the MPAA lost its corporate mind? [Oops, it was a spoof]
  - The trouble with memes...
  - C&I Feedback Invitation 2: Censorware
  - Dumping IE for Firefox: A bit of caution?
  - Cites & Insights: Feedback invitation 1: PC Progress
  - A sort-of-Friday meme
  - Do movie megapacks make sense for public libraries?
  - Cites & Insights 2006 index available
  - Speaking survey results
  - Thanks yourself - and a web metrics question
  - An SF book meme: I'll bite
  - Cites & Insights 6:14 available
  - Children's Book Week
  - High-def optical discs: A critical weekend?
  - Friday fun: The perils of editing
  - 50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 13
  - Call it a manifesto if you must, but read it
  - Vote!
  - ALA email
  - So not going to happen: A quick Friday post
  - Ozymandias and Orkut
  - No NaNoWriMo here, but...
  - 50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 12
- ► October (21)
- - Spam: Better and worse
  - Safety and numbers
  - Contemplating the nature of authorship
  - Firefox 2, part 3: Routing one-click feed subscriptions to Bloglines
  - What's on your FireFox search dropdown?
  - Liblog mortality rate: An interim note
  - The Firefox that didn't bite
  - Printability: It's not just for Firefox anymore
  - A touch of irony in the morning
  - This shears manifest themselves in uncounted PowerPoint foils
  - 850GB for $48!
  - Cites & Insights 6:13 available
  - Editing other people's words
  - Sophisticated argumentation
  - PageRankled: A Friday post
  - Metablog: A comment on "Still no comments."
  - Hard disks and the good old days
  - 50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 11
  - Terabyte drive: Still coming
  - Beware the "family" organization
  - Open access: One way to NOT benefit libraries
- ► September (16)
- - Bloglines improvements: Yabbut
  - TV and spam redux
  - Ross Singer, Umlaut, and Judging
  - Societies and open access
  - What's wrong with "combination"?
  - Just a little egoboo
  - Cites & Insights 6:12 available
  - Going where the story leads you
  - Belatedly recognizing newfound flexibility
  - 50 Movie Pack SciFi Classics, Disc 12
  - Turning [a little more than] thirty
  - Setting a fee
  - The occasional joy of not writing
  - Quick summer's-end post
  - C&I: Very short-term predictions
  - Cites & Insights 6:11 available
- ► August (14)
- - My other blog is an ejournal
  - Karen Coyle, blogger!
  - It's a Guy Thing
  - Journal of Electronic Publishing: Second new issue
  - College Frosh are all 6-8 years old?
  - Pathetic little boys in men's bodies
  - Five Weeks to a Social Library
  - 50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 10
  - Too much stuff
  - The mandatory apologia
  - Cites & Insights 6:10 available
  - Dipping tentatively into Wikipedia
  - Non-English Libloggers: If you happen to read this blog...
  - Frederick G. Kilgour, RIP
- ► July (18)
- - 50 Movie Pack SciFi Classics, Disc 11
  - Friday on Monday
  - Bias and discrimination
  - The obligatory DOPA post
  - Looking at liblogs: Yet another in-process comment
  - Doing several things badly...
  - Cites & Insights 6:10 postponed, special issue cancelled
  - Blogging, C&I, and heat
  - Pew and RSS
  - Bandwidth of a 747 hauling Blu-ray discs
  - What's the point?
  - Bloglines 3: The saga continues
  - Cites & Insights has a new home
  - Losing the Big Bucks
  - Bloglines continued: The starting list
  - Resolved, that debates are a terrible way to run programs
  - Bloglines upheaval: What's happening
  - 50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 9
- ► June (14)
- - 27 and change
  - What's a known item?
  - Preliminary random post-ALA notes
  - Google Librarian Newsletter: My final RLG byline (I think)
  - The final pre-ALA post (probably)
  - New Orleans 2: The New York Times Got It Wrong
  - ALA New Orleans: A few thoughts in preparation
  - Cites & Insights 6:9 available
  - A grammar post!
  - Looking at Liblogs: How you can help
  - The last* Cites & Insights** (pay attention to the asterisks***!)
  - 50 Movie Pack SciFi Classics, Disc 10
  - Foxit Reader: Close, oh so close
  - Comments and trackbacks yet again
- ► May (18)
- - ALA New Orleans, an informal post
  - Libraries and balance: More stuff that won't be in C&I
  - Library 2.0 - Like it or hate it, it's public domain (an echo post)
  - In time there is change: An update
  - Cites & Insights 6:8 available
  - "Library 2.0" - an apology
  - Changing Nature of the Catalog: One that won't be in C&I
  - Disappearing comments and trackbacks
  - 50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 8
  - High-def optical discs: What you need to know now (3 of 3)
  - High-def optical discs: What you need to know now (2 of 3)
  - High-def optical discs: What you need to know now (1 of 3)
  - Big Man on Mulberry Street
  - RLG: A staff appreciation
  - Those oldies but goodies...
  - Changes certain, nature unknown
  - If I was a young man...
  - YBP Academia now features C&I essay
- ► April (25)
- - I don't need no stinkin' magazines
  - SciFi Classics 50-movie Pack, Disc 9
  - Gasoline, numeracy, and journalism
  - Survey on library community-building
  - Cites & Insights 6:7 available
  - Counting the spam
  - LISHost rules the library world
  - Mary Ghikas becomes a liblogger
  - A note to my newly-cozy readership
  - Blog readership
  - Digitizing microfilm and the Great Quake
  - Missing and confused
  - Northern Exposure
  - Not only Right, but correct
  - Movers, shakers, self-promotion, and C&I
  - The end of DOS
  - Readability?
  - Give it up?
  - 50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 7
  - Apology: Siva Vaidhyanathan isn't Gale Norton
  - Cites & Insights 6:6 available
  - Sometimes you just can't win
  - Big Copyright has a new name!
  - We need a new term? (As Huey Lewis didn't say)
  - One year down
- ► March (24)
- - Why Microsoft fell apart
  - C&I: The most frequently downloaded essay
  - Cites & Insights bloat fixed
  - Semantic, not Smart
  - Taking the bait
  - Messy facts and neat presentations
  - So now breaking the back button is cool?
  - All the cool kids...
  - Family nonsense
  - Trader Joe's and the Word Paradox
  - 50 Movie Pack SciFi Classics, Disc 8
  - C&I 6.5: Temporary replacement for PDF
  - Cites & Insights 6:5 available--Diamond Anniversary issue
  - Fair use: A brilliant comic book!
  - Fair warning and random notes
  - Ironies abound
  - Nerds and geeks on ebooks
  - A wiki for ALA New Orleans
  - Don't feel any urgency to read this
  - Architecture and youthful enthusiasms
  - ArchiveGrid--a few offhand notes
  - Great marketing ideas part 1042
  - LITA's 40. Will I make it to 45?
  - Spam filters get tough!
- ► February (23)
- - Great librarian attitudes
  - Attitudes Toward Public Libraries 2006
  - Correction: Ex Libris article
  - 50 Movie Pack SciFi Classics, Disc 7
  - What Dorothea said
  - Brown bag blogging
  - We're all innumerate sometimes
  - Cites & Insights 6:4 available
  - Some people belong on the "A list"
  - Symbiotic and parasitic applications
  - Journal of Electronic Publishing
  - Ego and similarity: A silly little post
  - Four cancellations
  - Four things
  - Crystal, Conde Nast, and the Berkeley Effect
  - Jon Stewart, Miracle Man!
  - Super Bowl ads
  - The joys of real-time wordsmithing
  - Pandora: Well, I'll be d*ned
  - Abandoning "library"?
  - 50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 6
  - Spreading the word
- ► January (18)
- - LITA at Midwinter: Not quite three strikes
  - Tripping out, tripping back
  - Cites & Insights 6:3 available
  - The essential Bob Dylan
  - Assistant librarian?
  - Bookending "Library 2.0"
  - Midwinter nostalgia (and suggestions)
  - C&I: A little more analysis
  - Clarifications, changes, and an update: Three posts in one!
  - Blogs I read, if you care
  - Midwinter gathering: The Menger bar
  - Cites & Insights 6:2: A special issue
  - What big three is that?
  - Midwinter gathering: Place still uncertain
  - 50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 5
  - Correction: YBP/GOBI on Sunday, not Saturday
  - Freely accessible social science journals
  - One small resolution
► 2005 (207)
- ► December (23)
- ► November (22)
- ► October (20)
- ► September (17)
- ► August (26)
- ► July (22)
- ► June (14)
- ► May (30)
- ► April (33)

The Big Deal and The Damage Done [paperback $16.50] PDF ebook $9.99 or campus license ebook $40	Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four (2012-13) [paperback $19.99] also PDF $9.99 or hardbound $28.99	Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change
Also available: Graphing Public Library Benefits The Liblog Landscape 2007-2010 But Still They Blog Library 2.0: A Cites & Insights Reader	Cites & Insights 12, 2012 Cites & Insights 11, 2011 Cites & Insights 10, 2010 Cites & Insights 9, 2009	Cites & Insights 8, 2008 Cites & Insights 7, 2007 Cites & Insights 6, 2006 Open Access and Libraries

Archive for October 9th, 2012

Review of two books on open access worth reading

Categories

Archives