Cites & Insights 8:2 (February 2008) is now available. The 24-page issue (PDF as always, but all articles are also available as HTML separates) includes:
- Announcing Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples – The latest from Cites & Insights Books, a $29.50 289-page paperback that complements Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples. Included are brief notes, the list of academic institutions represented, examples of blog coverage for both books, the announcement of $20 PDF downloads for those who just can’t stand print books–and a few notes on the status of Cites & Insights Books.
- Trends & Quick Takes: Trends and Forecasts – Time to look at some pundits’ scorecards and forecasts, along with some of the trends from the LITA Top Tech Trendspotters, with some of my comments interleaved.
- Bibs & Blather: Midwinter Musings – Notes on a much warmer Philadelphia Midwinter, along with a special essay based on an odd but not unique occurrence: “Leadership and Initiative: The Case of the Empty Chairs.”
- Offtopic Perspective: 50 Movie Western Classics, Part 1 – Roy Rogers is riding tonight, as are Tex Ritter, Gene Autry, John Wayne and a slew of others. A bunch of one hour “oaters” and a handful of pretty good pictures.
When I chatted with a few of you at Midwinter, I may have expressed concern that the February issue might be some combination of late, short and peculiar, since I didn’t think I had any of it written (I forgot about the Offtopic Perspective). Well, one out of three ain’t bad: It’s not late and it’s not short. Enjoy.
Quibble re: ultralight PCs… If these get cheap enough (a significant “if,” as miniaturization requires serious engineering), they’d be obvious loaner machines for libraries with loaner programs — mostly academic libraries as far as I know.
Hope your wife’s feeling better!
Dorothea, that makes sense to me–for libraries that do loan out notebooks. Outside my experience, which is of course limited.
My wife’s improving little by little (and I’m still getting over a cold).
A lot of our campus libraries do loaner laptops (in cooperation with campus IT). A small, rugged, cheap machine would be a real boon.