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Update: Jesse just started a blog at his Book Burro site.
Jesse Andrews, creator of Book Burro, was kind enough to answer a question of mine via email about his super-cool Firefox extension, and gave his kind permission to post it here.
I had asked Jesse for instructions on adding a library’s catalogue to Book Burro. […]

At the the request of an insistant emailer, here’s my Librarian Trading Card:

The Simpsonesque drawing is by my friend Mary Jean Massie.
What’s this about?
Where can I see more Librarian Trading Cards?
How can I make my own?

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Update: At the suggestion of some talented folks (see the comments on this post), we have copied all of this blog information to the LISwiki. Please make your changes and updates there instead. It is advertisement free, and a more central location that allows better sharing with libraryfolk of other sorts. […]

Marilyn, a Medical Reference Librarian in New York State, writes to ask how she can set up a single RSS feed to cover 30 different journals for one patron in PubMed.
I thought this topic had been covered, but I can see in the archives that I missed a good chance to touch on this earlier.  […]

We've covered how to create a custom feed from PubMed, but Medical Librarian Linda Schwartz writes:
…the present system we are trialing sends out the TOCs before we actually have access to the fulltext because some journals are only available in print or embargoed electronically and take a while to before we can actually provide the […]

Dang Woody Evans.  Dang him to heck.  This post is all his fault.
Here's the whole content of a recent post of his at ISHUSH:
"Convince me, someone, that all federated searching does not suck."

I argued:
Doesn't any particular application of Federated Search suck or not suck depending quite a lot on (among other factors) the […]

Dean Giustini announces the anticipated Health Sciences Librarianship Wiki that his LIBR 534 students will start.
Here's hoping it is a bit like The Library Success Wiki.
This is great news and potentially a really useful resource to a lot of people in the profession.
I hope very much, though, that Dean allows it to be […]

I'm not so impressed with Gliffy, but I am delighted with this piece of freeware.
Here's the sort of thing it lets you build (Click around with it a bit to see how it can expand and contract)
The interface is intuitive and sensible. Just to try it out, I started mapping out my job responsibilities, and […]

So there was some abusive behavior going on at the NEXGENLIB-L ListServ, and the former moderators seemed to have abandoned the list, so a number of its members started a new one in Google Groups in hopes that with restrained moderators actually being present, the community (made up overwhemingly of pleasant and helpful young libraryfolk) […]

As has previously been posted, Damien Sherman of Elsevier’s Scopus took exception when I suggested (at Michael Stephen’s Tame the Web) that Elsevier was behind on RSS because the product he works on, Scopus, does.  Excited to see this, I asked if I could see Scopus' RSS features and feature them on my blog.
At […]

via Kevin MD, a decent article from The St. Louis Dispatch on evidence based medicine, medical literature, and the information technology to bring it all into the examination room to benefit doctor and patient.
When Dr. Charles Willey walks into treatment rooms, his laptop computer is as prominent as his stethoscope. After his examination and his […]

After a very busy and stressful few days, I’m ready to try to get a start on the list of post topics that have stacked up in my inbox. First is to attempt to explain the difference between Push technologies and Pull technologies and to make some suggestions on how RSS can be made […]

So the last post pblished okay on the site, and appeared in my Google Reader account, but not in BlogLines!
This post is a test to see which aggregator(s) it’ll show up in. Please forgive the need for this.

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Update: 7/21/2006 - Rrrrg. Been having some sort of feed/aggregator issue that I think may have prevented this going out to a number of subscribers via RSS when first posted. Posting it again in hopes that this will resolve the problem. Please forgive the duplicate if you received it the first time. […]

Abby (LibraryThing's librarian) says in a comment here that LibraryThing will allow users to add things like movies and music later this summer.
Sooooooooo excited to see that.

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(updated 7/20/2006: see bolded text at bottom of post) 
The problem with asking for my opinion is that you'll always get it.  Anyway:
The co-creator of GuruLib, Rana Basheer, left a comment in response to my post about GuruLib in which he solicited further comments about GuruLib.  How extremely cool is that?
Mr. Basheer, these are just off […]

Damien was good as his word, and has quickly arranged for me access to Scopus so I can review its RSS features. Expect notes on them here within the next week or so.
For the record, I really respect Damien’s visiting and participating in library blogversations (Damien’s word, and I like it) and really appreciate […]

A few emails have indicated that some specific clarification on how to create an RSS feed in PubMed for a medical journal that does not offer its own feed would be helpful. Here goes:
We’ll start by paying a visit to our much-beloved PubMed, and clicking on the Limits tab.

Click on Add Journal

Type in the […]

Am I just a horrible cynic for thinking that this sort of ad doesn't actually appeal to kids?

Found here.

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So, I loved Librarything from the first moment I heard about it, but was bothered that it only covered books.
Just tried out GuruLib today. Still in Beta and a little cludgy, it seems a bit like a Librarything that can include DVDs and music.
Still thinking about the neat things that could be […]